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Celebrating six years of ‘Kutcheri in the Park’ and on the final morning of the 10th Sundaram Finance Mylapore Festival, 55 students from Vidya Mandir, Mylapore, presented a group mikeless concert at the jam-packed Chess Square of Nageswara Rao Park on a specially erected stage.
This is the largest group concert at Nageswara Rao Park where Sundaram Finance has been organising ‘Sunday Kutcheri in the Park’ since February 2006.
Guided and directed by guru Hari Kripa, the 55students, all aged below 15 years, lit up the Margazhi morning with their lively presentation that drew in all the morning walkers to Chess Square.
Applauded all the way by this huge crowd and accompanied by K Krishna and V Sreeraman on the flute, G Sandhya on the veena, G S Krishna Sampath, R A Shravan Kumar and B Nandhan on the mridangam, G Gokul Srinath on the ghatam and K S Vijay Balaji and S Abhinava on the violin, these students presented songs such as ‘Sri Vigna Rajam Bhaje’ (Gambira Nattai), ‘Nagumomu’ (Abheri), ‘Mudugare Yashodha’ (Kurinji), ‘Azagu Deivam’ (Kaavadi Sindhu) and ‘Anbirundal Adhuve Podhume’ (Sindhu Bhairavi) that kept the audience engrossed through the one hour.
Commenting on the concept of mikeless kutcheri, guru Hari Kripa, who has been training several hundreds of these students, said, “The early morning informal park ambience was very pleasant and conducive for a kutcheri for these young children. The mikeless kutcheri is an interesting and innovative concept and even took some of my students by surprise. Each one of them enjoyed this first-ever experience of a mikeless open air kutcheri and I thought that this mikeless kutcheri brought out the natural voices in these students.”
T T Srinivasaraghavan, managing director, Sundaram Finance Ltd., said, “This morning is a milestone for the Sundaram Finance ‘Kutcheri in the Park’ event, as we complete six years. During this period, over 500 children aged below 15 years have presented their first kutcheri here at Nageswara Rao Park. It is heartening to hear that this concept of mikeless kutcheri has genuinely served as a launch pad for these young children for many of them have, subsequently, graduated to present kutcheris in sabhas, including the prestigious December kutcheri season.”
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