Mandolin concert and Sri Vijay Siva vocal concert

This is the review of concerts I atteneded back in April 2010 (Sri U. Shrinivas' and Sri.U. Rajesh's mandolin concert). The Mandolin sounds like the veena and a North Indian instrument. The accompanists were good and played sincerely. The audience made the artistes play the mangalam to end the concert.
Sri. Vijay Siva's vocal concert was pretty good. He looked composed throughout and gave a variegated treat for the rasikas. Starting with the Thodi varnam, he moved on to Poorvikalyani, Bhairavi, Ataana. The RTP was in Nattakurinji (I could find that it was Harikambhoji-janya but could not get the exact ragam). He sang a song about Sharadamba in Sanskrit. He ended with the Kamalamba navavarnam in Sri ragam. Sri.J.Vaidyanathan on the mridangam gave good support. Sri. RK Shreeramkumar on the violin was excellent.

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/04/09/stories/2010040951070200.htm

Violin Duet and Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna concerts

SIMA organised the above concerts. The violin duet was good. I was glad to hear Panthuvarali ragam. I really liked the rendition of Dikshithar's Sri Subrahmanyaya Namaste.
Partly due to tiredness, I could not enjoy Sri. K. Balamuralikrishna's concert. I had to leave when the artiste was singing Pankaja lochana in Kalyani. The violinist was a senior artiste with wide-ranging experience.

Recital

Some people keep pestering you. They cannot keep the distance. With guidance, you can learn to turn it into an advantage - one of the reasons why we need a Guru. While I am thinking of the DakshiNamurthy stotram that my dad wants me to memorize, the annual recital of Sampradaya School of Music came and went. It was not like a wedding - no shoes were lost afaik. The perfectionist teacher put each of the disciples to task - was one spared, perhaps? Food was good but youngsters could benefit by starting right. Samosa for snack? Naa naa. We are brown all right. The quiz was long. Btw, why the Sahana obsession? All said and done, good.

How come....

not much information online about Teacher?

Naatai and Gaulai

Naatai is a janya of the 36th melakarta Chalanaatai. Teacher says that this ragam can be heard in a lot of dance programs. I find it interesting that this ragam depicts 'Veera' rasam. I have been listening to 'Kaithala niraikani' sung by Smt.M.S.Subbulakshmi, 'Jaya jaya' sung by Sri.K.V.Narayanaswamy and
'Sarasiruhasanapriye' sung by Bombay Jayashree.
Gaulai is a janya of the 15th melakarta Mayamalavagowlai. I have been listening to the renditions of 'Sree Maha Ganapathiravathumam' by Sri Maharajapuram Santhanam,
'Thyagaraja paalaya' by Sri Balamuralikrishna and 'Saraswathya Bhagavathya' by Sri BV Raman and Sri BV Lakshmanan. Some songs remind me a lot of its kartha ragam.

Group practice

Been getting highly benefitted from group-practice with friends these days. Thanks to all for the help.