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October 08 2008

October 08 2008

Photograph of a musical performance on a red-draped stage. In the foreground a bald, bearded man in a maroon shirt and white dhoti plays a large round clay pot-drum (ghatam-style) with his hands. Beside him a young boy in a maroon kurta sits cross-legged, holding a long-necked stringed instrument. A microphone on a stand is in front of them, and a person in white sits at a sound mixing board at the right. Blue draped fabric and a bamboo mat form the backdrop.

October 10 2010

October 10 2010

A devotional music performance on a green stage cloth in a hall with striped orange and white hanging tassels. Two young men in matching orange-red silk kurtas and white dhotis sit cross-legged singing into microphones, one with hands raised in gesture. Behind them a man in a red kurta plays a tanpura-style stringed instrument, and a seated player beside him holds a sitar-like instrument. At left a tabla drum rests near stands, and a red ceramic kalasha-shaped vessel sits between the singers. Audience members are seen at the edges.

A seated male musician plays a large wooden veena with carved floral motifs on a red-cloth stage in front of royal blue draped curtains. He wears a cream kurta, white dhoti and a red-and-maroon cloth across his lap, with a red tilak on his forehead and glasses. A gourd resonator sits beside him, an amplifier and a pink laptop are on the stage, along with a microphone and a water bottle.

Live music performance at a satsang-style event. Three musicians sit cross-legged on a green cloth-covered floor in front of microphones. Two men in the foreground wear orange-red silk kurtas with white dhotis and light vibhuti marks on their foreheads; one plays a tanpura-style instrument with a long red-lacquered stem, and the other sings. Behind them a younger man in red shirt plays a stringed instrument, and a drum sits at the left edge. Colourful striped and tasselled hangings decorate the wall, and a blurred audience sits in the background.

Three men sit cross-legged on a red carpeted floor with small flower petals scattered around them, performing a sung or recited program before microphones on stands. On the left, a long-haired man in a white kurta with a white forehead marking plays a stringed instrument. In the centre, a man in a red-and-white checked kurta with a red bindi and white dhoti sits with hands folded, eyes lowered, speaking into a microphone. On the right, a man in a pink-orange silk kurta holds papers and sings with eyes closed. Cushioned striped mats sit beneath them and a pillar and lamps stand in the background.

Three musicians perform on a raised stage with a red floor covering and blue draped backdrop with white valance. A seated man on the left in white shirt and white dhoti plays a barrel-shaped drum with a black-and-gold wrap. In the centre a young man in pale yellow kurta and white dhoti sings into a microphone. On the right a man in pink-white kurta sits cross-legged playing a stringed instrument resembling a violin. Speakers, microphone stands and a hanging yellow decorative fabric surround the stage.

A seated musical ensemble performs on a green-covered stage. A man in a white shirt and cream trousers plays a tabla-style drum at left. A young woman in a pink saree with a pearl necklace and a bindi holds a long-necked tanpura-style stringed instrument. Behind her an older woman in a pink saree and beaded necklace sits beside a second stringed instrument, and at right a woman in a pink-and-gold saree plays a veena. Dark wooden instruments and cables lie on the stage, and a red-and-orange backdrop is at left.