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concert booking

There are several, different options for booking concert, like

Dr. Kamala Shankar
Pt. Rajeev Janardan

(solo and duet (jugalbandi) performances
for guitar-sitar or guitar-surbahar)

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Dr. Kamala Shankar, Pt. Rajeev Janardan
and Shri Shailendre Janardan

(guitar-sitar-violin Trio or guitar-surbahar-violin Trio)

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Dr. Kamala Shankar, Pt. Rajeev Janardan and group
(Shankara Orchestra performances etc.)

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workshops and
lecture demonstrations

Lecture-demonstrations (from 45 minutes to 3 hrs, preferable organized in Music Institutes), and even week-long Workshops.

A lecture-demonstration includes an introduction to Indian Classical Music and the basics of sitar, slide-guitar, surbahar, violin, tabla playing techniques; the connections between vocal and instrumental music; the differences between Indian and Western classical music; improvisation, etc.

The workshops are interactive, from basic to advanced levels of instruction, with emphasis on specific areas in each session, where there could be different subjects, like

  • the technical aspects of the Indian istruments
    (sitar, surbahar, guitar, violin, tabla)
  • what is the raga, how to elabotare the parts of the raga or even concentrating one or two ragas
  • the technical background of the instruments, like how to make the mizrab for sitar, how to fix frets and strings properly
  • historical aspects of Indian Classical Music with video demonstratons of the great Hindustani artists of the 20th century
  • or any Indian music and musicology related subject

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