Association for India's Development

Presents

Indian Classical Carnatic Guitar Concert

by

'Guitar' Prasanna

with

Lakshman Mahadevan on the Mridangam

All proceeds benefit the Hundred Block Plan*

 
 
Bharathi Kalalaya, Fremont
                                        Concert Sponsors Chaat House, Sunnyvale
Komala Vilas, Sunnyvale

Saturday, April 14, 2001 at 6:45 PM

Cubberley Theater        Theatre Plan        Directions

4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

Almost Sold Out - less than 10 tickets available !!!

For Tickets Contact:

Gokul Janga (510) 781 0842 gokulj@email.com
Prasanthi Somepalli (408) 436 7407 psomepalli@yahoo.com
To request tickets online, click here.
 

Prasanna is the only professionally performing exponent of carnatic music on the electric guitar. This versatile guitarist has won encomiums in the world of Carnatic music and was befittingly felicitated in Jan 2001 by the music academy, Chennai for "outstanding adaptation of a western instrument to Carnatic Music". His music tutelage began under the late vocalist Tiruvarur S. Balasubramaniam and later continued under the renowned violinist Kum.A. Kanyakumari.

He has several releases to his credit. Natabairavi, Shakthi,Apoorva and Roots being some of his notable ones. This illustrious alumnus of IIT Chennai, is also an accomplished performer of jazz, blues, rock and fusion music and has performed with renowned jazz musicians like Jarnie Haddad, Skip Hadden and Marc Rossi. For more information, please visit http://www.guitarprasanna.com


Lakshman Mahadevan - Tutored by Sri T.R. Rajamani (Son of the illustrious Shri Palghat Mani Iyer), Lakshman is a graded AIR artiste and has accompanied many great artistes including Dr. L. Subramaniam, Mysore Dorai Swamy Iyengar and Prof. T.R.Subramaniam.
 
AID is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. AID supports a wide variety of social development projects, towards an improved life for the poor and underprivileged, in India. The projects cover areas such as literacy, healthcare, micro-credit, livelihood development and woman's empowerment. All contributions to AID are tax-deductible. Our Federal Tax ID is 52-1863480.
 
*The Hundred Block Plan (HBP) is an ambitious effort to tackle poverty through simultaneous local initiatives in hundred blocks (~8000 villages) throughout India. The HBP effort is being undertaken by a nation-wide network of social organizations strongly committed to community development. For more details please click here.