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A devotional music performance on a decorated stage draped with pink and white pleated fabric. Behind the musicians stands a large bronze Nataraja murti of dancing Shiva within a flame arch, garlanded with marigold and multicoloured flower strands, flanked by lit oil lamps with garlands and a small gold figure. Seven people sit cross-legged on a blue cloth: a man in a pink shirt and white dhoti at left plays a tabla, a woman in a white and gold sari at centre sits behind a harmonium at a microphone, and others in saris and white clothes sit around them, including a man in a dark shirt and a young man in black at right beside a keyboard. A tanpura rests against the backdrop.

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