Ragam Manirangu

A Kharaharapriya janya, Manirangu sounds very melodious. I have been listening to 'Iko namaswami' rendered by Smt. DK Pattammal, 'Yaar enna sonnaalum' by Nithyashree Mahadevan and 'Bhajare' by Sri. Balamuralikrishna from here:
http://musicindiaonline.co/list_albums/i/10-Classical_Carnatic_Vocal/671-Manirangu/#/list_albums/i/10-Classical_Carnatic_Vocal/671-Manirangu/2!q=

SIMA concerts - Shashank and Sandeep

We attended an hour's worth of Shashank's flute concert. Dhenuka and Surutti alapanas made the ragams sound very different to me. We had to leave as we didnt want to keep Avaneesh in the cold air outside the auditorium for too long.
Sandeep Narayan gave a grand homecoming concert on March 24th evening. The songlist is here:
http://sandeepnarayanmusic.blogspot.com/2012/03/sima-los-angeles.html
Sandeep has taken up Sri Sanjay's baani very well. In particular, I liked his rendition of the Ahiri song. Neyveli Venkatesh's thani exuded youthful energy to complement the youngster's singing. The audience enjoyed everything and forgave his forgetting a line and getting the violinist's help for Thamburi meetidhava.

Good 'season' of listening

The December season 2011-2012 has been good for me with abundant blessings from the Almighty. I visited Chennai with Avaneesh and took him on the stroller for a few concerts:
Hamsadhwani Sabha concerts 2011
A lot of youngsters gave excellent performances.
Ganesh Raman
Jaishree
Rupa Mahadevan
Srimathi and Anuradha Sridhar performed a violin duet.

Kalakshetra Concert of Parasala Ponnammal - even at this age when she finds it hard to drag notes, she gave a full concert including my favorite Kamalamba Samrakshathu in Ananda Bhairavi

Then I watched some concerts on TV:
Margazhi Mahautsavam concerts 2011-2012
Aruna Sairam
P. Unnikrishnan
Priya sisters
Sanjay Subrahmanyan
Sudha Raghunathan
Abhishek Raghuram
Neyveli Santhanagopalan
Kunnakkudi Balamuralikrishna

Kalaingyar tv 5:30pm
Vijayalakshmi Subramanyan Jan 19.
Anuradha Krishnamurthy Jan 23 with flute ghatam and mridangam accompaniments. Somehow this concert lacked harmony, at least the first part of it. Vathapi, pozhuthu pularnthathu were so-so.
Aruna Sairam on Jan 24 sang meenakshi madurapuri, vishamakkara Kannan, vittal. Looked tired.

Chennaiyil thiruvaiyaaru Vijay tv 5pm
Priya sisters Jan 24 Sri ganapathini, Thillai Chidambaram in saama was good.