A concert featuring the celebrated Carnatic musician T.V. Gopalakrishnan will be presented by the Arch and Jiva Performing Arts on June 20 at the Arch Space in Manhattan.
Gopalakrishnan has excelled not only in vocal music and mridangam but also instruments such as the violin, and saxophone and he has performed in thousands of concerts in a career spanning over 60 years.
He will be accompanied by Arun Ramaurthy on violin. Arun is a young up-and-coming violinist who has trained originally with the A. Ananthakrishnan. Later, Arun learnt from the celebrated violinist brothers, Mysore Nagaraj and Mysore Manjunath. A. R. Balaskandan will accompany on the mridangam. Balaskandan is a versatile mridangist as well as violinist who hails from the renowned Karaikudi R. Mani style of playing.
The event is sponsored by The Arch and Jiva Performing Arts.

US-based arts organisation Rasika begins the 10th season with a dance production of Dr. Jayanthi Raman's NATYANJALI.

US-based arts organisation Rasika begins the 10th season with a dance production of Dr. Jayanthi Raman's NATYANJALI.

The event is on June 1 at the Portland Center for Performing Arts, Portland.

Portland-based dancer, teacher and choreographer Jayanthi Raman presents Akila Rao & Ramya Raman as featured dancers with 15 NATYA dancers celebrating 15th year of her dance school Natya Dance Academy. (www.natyapdx.com)

This show is billed as 'an opulent, colorful production of traditional, theatrical, contemporary and folk items'.

Jayanthi Raman's career as a dancer and choreographer spans three decades. Celebrating the 15th year of her dance school based in Portland and Hillsboro, Jayanthi now has Akila Rao and Ramya Raman as teachers to educate the younger generation in this dance form.

This Mother’s day weekend, May 9and 10, 2008 Salt Lake City’s quiet mountains will welcome Spring with the annual Thyagaraja Festival.
At the LDS Center, 951 E 100 South, Salt Lake City.
Started in 1997, the Thyagaraja Festival bring artistes and art lovers across the Salt Lake Valley, United states and Canada to an intimate celebration of Carnatic music.

The event this year will feature artistes including Maharajapuram Srinivasan, Sankaran Mahadevan, V. K. Arun Kumar, Deepti Navaratna and Kumar brothers along with several others who will pay their tribute to Saint Thyagaraja under the artistic direction of violinist Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli. The event is partially sponsored by the Utah Arts Council.

Expressions of the Spirit, a performance by the students of Natya Dhaara Center for Performing Arts, based in Atlanta.

The program includes south Indian Classical dance of Bharata Natyam, folk as well as a few East- West fusion pieces.
Directed by Uma Palam Pulendran, this program is in collaboration with Association for India’s Development (AID) Atlanta Chapter, a non-profit charitable organization.
The organisation says that all the proceeds from the event will be donated to AID and will benefit their projects in rural India.

At a special event organised by the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, Bharatanatyam dancer Aniruddha Knight and ensemble will present a traditional dance recital.

Aniruddha is the grandson of the famed dancer T. Balasaraswati. He performs in the early 19th century Bharatanatyam style, singing as he dances.

The event will be held on April 5, 2008, at 4 to 6pm

Venue: Morse Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA

This special event is held in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Heritage of the Arts of South Asia (MITHAS)

An annual music festival is hosted by Chicao Tyagaraja Utsavam (CTU) during the Memorial Day weekend every year.

This year the festival will be celebrated from May 24 to 26, 2008.

Children and adults pay homage to Saint Tyagaraja at this festival.
CTU invites registrattion to participate in the festival. The registration process for participating at the Utsavam will be open in the next few days. Registration Deadline: April 18, 2008

Nrithyanjali Institute of Dance, with a history of over 15 years is presenting 'Garland of Indian Dance' featuring the Tradition of The Tanjore Quartet, a Bharathanatyam dance presentation by leading dancers visiting from India with live orchestra, and Kuchipudi and Mohiniyattam. This year the event will be held on April 5, 2008 at 5 pm.
At West Windsor Plainsboro Community Middle School, Plainsboro, NJ

LearnQuest Music Conference featuring the best of Indian classical music, both in Hindustani and Carnatic styles, starts the Spring season this year for music lovers in Boston.

This music festival, a five day event, begins on April 9, 2008 is an annual event held for the third year this time.

The festival presents 20 music concerts by various artists performing vocal and a wide range of instrumental music such as the flute, sitar, veena, sarod and the violin with traditional accompaniments of tabla, mridangam and other percussions.

Eminent performers Hariprasad Chaurasia (Hindustani Flute), Aruna Sairam (Carnatic Vocal), Anindo Chatterjee (Tabla), Dr. Prabha Atre (Hindustani Vocal), O.S.Tyagarajan (Carnatic Vocal), Shujat Khan (Sitar), Jayanthi Kumaresh (Carnatic Veena), Gundecha Brothers (Dhrupad), Shashank (Carnatic Flute), Debashish Bhattacharya (Slide Guitar) are among an array of about 40 artists participating in the conference.

The event also includes a Hindustani Vocal Lecture Demonstration by Gangadhar Rao Telang, a lecture demonstration on Tabla and Mridangam, and a documentary film, Raga, on the life and music of the sitar maestro Ravi Shankar.

The concerts of the festival will take place at multiple locations in Boston area. The opening concert on April 9 will be at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the second day, April 10, at the Stata Center of MIT, Cambridge.
The remaining events from April 11 to April 13 will be held at the McDevitt School in Waltham, MA.

The festival is co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) and MITHAS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Heritage of the Arts of South Asia.)

New England Hindu Temple Inc. (NEHTI) Committee on Youth Cultural and Educational Program offers Nrityanjali to Lord Nataraja as a part of Sivarathri Celeberations this year.

The event will be held on Feb. 23, 2008 Location: Sri Lakshmi Temple, Ashland, MA Time: 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Dancer Induvadana Malli, daughter and disciple of senior Bharatanatyam guru Adyar K. Lakshman will present an evening of homage in dance on the occasion of Shivaratri.

She will present unique dance choreographies of her guru Adyar Lakshman along with the students of Bharatha Choodamani school of Bharatanatyam run by her in Michigan

On March 16, 2008. From 4 pm to 5.30 pm

Bharatanatyam dancers Srinidhi Raghavan and Sahasra Sambamoorthi present in New York, USA, 'Her Story' which portrays the lives of four women in Indian mythology and literature — Kaikeyi, Devaki, Kannagi, and Andal. The show is due on Saturday, February 16 evening, at the Peter Norton Symphony Space: Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. The artistic direction is by Usha Raghavanand the music has been scored by Sudharshana Arunkumar

Recounting pivotal moments in the lives of these women, the two dancers explore how these characters transformed the worlds they lived in through their ability to love unconditionally.

Srinidhi Raghavan learnt Bharatanatyam from her mother and guru, Usha Raghavan, and guru, Malathy Thothadri. Her experiences with dance have spanned several cultures and countries, including those of the UK, Europe, Barbados, the US and India.