Tabla doyen regales Auckland audience

Tabla doyen regales Auckland audience

Auckland fans of Indian percussion music had the rare opportunity to listen to well-known Mumbai based tabla doyen Pandit Sadanand Naimpally last Sunday morning. One of the outstanding tabla and pakhawaj maestros of India, Sadanandji packed in a lot in his...
Ragas of the Gods gets big thumbs up

Ragas of the Gods gets big thumbs up

The Indian Weekender, October 19, 2018 The Centennial Theatre at Auckland Boys Grammar School in Epsom reverberated with the pristine, divine sounds of traditional Indian music on the evening of Saturday, October 13. The audience that stayed back to the very end of...
Musical draws fulsome applause

Musical draws fulsome applause

May 22, 2018 The near full house crowd at the Green Bay High School that had turned up to watch the first-of-its-kind musical dance drama EkaPremachiGoshta stayed back long after the curtains fell to congratulate the cast and crew. The play was unique in many ways –...
Ashwini spellbinds discerning Auckland audience

Ashwini spellbinds discerning Auckland audience

One of India’s foremost Hindustani classical vocalists to ever grace New Zealand shores held a discerning Auckland audience spellbound by her sheer virtuosity last Saturday. Vidushi Dr Ashwini Bhide Deshpande presented an eclectic mix of pure classical, devotional and...