Day 2 of 6th India Week Hamburg 2015: programme on Tuesday – 3rd Nov 2015

The relations between Hamburg and India are as varied and diverse as the country itself. With around 80 events Hamburg is now celebrating the sixth time the traditionally good relations with India. The India Week Hamburg invites from 2 to 8 November 2015 to  discover this diversity.

• India Week Hamburg website
• Facebook page
• Facebook event page

Download fully programme as PDF here: http://bit.ly/1RsG5mD

Day 2 / Tuesday, 3rd November 2015…

Day 1 of 6th India Week Hamburg 2015: programme on Monday – 2nd Nov 2015

The relations between Hamburg and India are as varied and diverse as the country itself. With around 80 events Hamburg is now celebrating the sixth time the traditionally good relations with India. The India Week Hamburg invites from 2 to 8 November 2015 to  discover this diversity.

• India Week Hamburg website
• Facebook page
• Facebook event page

Download fully programme as PDF here: http://bit.ly/1RsG5mD

Day 1 / Monday, 2nd November 2015…

concert (mandolin + vocal): Sri Sugato Bhaduri in Hamburg – 8th May 2015 (08:00 pm)

Mandolin player and vocalist Sri Sugato Bhaduri (Facebook) from Kolkata,  some might remember him from IMCRadio’s special feature StudioTalk in 2006 is visiting Hanseatic City Hamburg for a concert on the beginning of Hamburg’s  826th port anniversary (8th-10th May)..

date: Friday, 8th May 2015
start: 08:00 pm CET
venue: Rutschbahn 8 – 20146 Hamburg
tickets: 16.00 Euros (reduced: 12.00 €), pre-order via telephone +49-(0)40-5317685

IMC’s special feature: “INDIAN CLASSICAL ON VINYL” (Record Store Day special @ TIDE Radio / DE )

You have missed IMC’s special “INDIAN CLASSICAL ON VINYL” on last Saturday (18th April) for the Intern. Record Store Day (annually every 3rd Saturday of April) ?

Today on Monday you can take the chance for re-listening to (via webradio) at 04:00-05:58 pm EST / 10:00-11:58 pm CET… come in and enjoy the finest Indian classical music on Vinyl records @ TIDE Radio (click webstream here).

@ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1413233695651742/ 

 

IMC’s special feature: “INDIAN CLASSICAL ON VINYL” (Record Store Day special @ radio multicult.fm / DE )

You have missed IMC’s special “INDIAN CLASSICAL ON VINYL” yesterday on the Intern. Record Store Day (annually every 3rd Saturday of April) ?

One day after take the chance today on Sunday for listening to (via webradio) at 09:00-11:00 am EST / 03:00-05:00 pm CET… come in and enjoy the finest Indian classical music on Vinyl records @ radio multicult.fm (click webstream here).

@ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/events/336221083254552/ 

 

IMC’s special feature: “INDIAN CLASSICAL ON VINYL” (Record Store Day special @ Radio RASA / CH )

IMC’s special “INDIAN CLASSICAL ON VINYL” onair (via webradio) at 07:00-09:00 pm EST (18th April) / 01:00-03:00 am EST (19th April)… Come in and enjoy the finest Indian classical music on Vinyl records @ Radio RaSA (click webstream here).

@ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/549403978536206/ 

 

Indian Rhythms for frame drummer in Europe: Kanjira workshop with Ganesh Kumar (5th-8th Aug 2015)

The 10th edition of “Tamburi – Mundi Festival” (Drum Festival) in  South Germany, Freiburg is announcing Ganesh Kumar from India who will give a workshop for Kanjira (South Indian Hand frame drum) & Konnakkol (vocal classes).

Ganesh Kumar (India)

Workshop Date: August 5th – 8th, 2015

• 9 –   9:45 h   Warm up
• 10 -13:00 h  Kanjira Medium with Ganesh Kumar (Wed-Sat)
• 15 – 15:45 h   Short lectures with different lecturers (Wed-Fri)
• 16 – 17:30 h   Workshops (Wed-Fri)

Instruments: Kanjira and other frame drums

Course content: Ganesh Kumar’s course includes the expansion of the basic drumming technologies on the South Indian frame drum Kanjira. Primary emphasis will be placed on the split-hand-technique, phrasing and modulating different sounds. South Indian rhythms and compositions will also be introduced.

Ganesh Kumar also teaches the vocal percussion “Konnakol” and shows how to play  Mridangam (double headed drum of South India) and Morsing (mukharshanku).

For those among the participants playing other frame drums, there will be shown facilities to transfer the Indian rhythms onto their respective frame drums.

Level: Medium (good playing experience on kanjira or other frame drums)

! Registration opens now ! – Visit www.TamburiMundi.com

Formation of Tamburi Mundi e.V.

Since the end of the 90s, the internationally recognized percussionist Murat Coskun has endeavoured to spread and develop a wide variety of frame drum traditions of many different cultures with big commitment and idealism. His goal was to establish a festival in which frame drummers from the most diverse cultural groups come together and combine to form a common exchange. He came one big step closer in 2006, as he brought the “1st international festival for frame drums” to life called “Tamburi Mundi”, which would establish itself in the course of its existence as one of the most important platforms to support frame drum culture world-wide.
Tamburi Mundi created an international network of musicians, institutions, colleges, museums, as well as international cultural organizations and facilities and since then promotes the exchange of musicians in conversations, concerts, workshops and in the development and formation of common projects. With “Tamburi Mundi International”, “guest performances” were also done since 2008 in the festivals in Iran and Italy. In order to master the existing and further accumulating tasks with joint strength, the organization Tamburi Mundi e.V. was called into life in 2009.

( Source: 03/2015 – http://www.tamburimundi.com )

An ultimate frame drum “Kanjira” by Ganesh Kumar

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HAPPY HOLI to all our >15790 FB group members of “INDIAN CLASSICAL”…

We wish to all >15,790 members of our uniquly FB group “Indian classical” a HAPPY HOLI Fest.
May your life be colourful with Joy, Fun, Happyness, Friendship, Love & MUSIC.

 

Happy Holi Fest on 6th March 2015 to all our Indian friends around the globe…

We wish our Indian friends around the globe and listeners a HAPPY HOLI 2015!
May your life be colorful with Joy, Fun, Happiness, Friendship and Love.

Holi (English pronunciation: /ˈhoʊliː/) (Sanskrit: होली) is a spring festival also known as the festival of colours or the festival of love. It is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of South Asia, as well as people of other communities outside Asia.

It is primarily observed in India, Nepal, and other regions of the world with significant populations of Hindus or people of Indian origin. The festival has, in recent times, spread to parts of Europe and North America as a spring celebration of love, frolic, and colours.

Holi celebrations start with a Holika bonfire on the night before Holi where people gather, sing and dance. The next morning is a free-for-all carnival of colours, where participants play, chase and colour each other with dry powder and coloured water, with some carrying water guns and coloured water-filled balloons for their water fight. Anyone and everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children and elders. The frolic and fight with colours occurs in the open streets, open parks, outside temples and buildings. Groups carry drums and musical instruments, go from place to place, sing and dance. People visit family, friends and foes to throw colours on each other, laugh and chit-chat, then share Holi delicacies, food and drinks. Some drinks are intoxicating. For example, Bhang, an intoxicating ingredient made from cannabis leaves, is mixed into drinks and sweets and consumed by many. In the evening, after sobering up, people dress up, visit friends and family.

Holi is celebrated at the approach of vernal equinox, on the Phalguna Purnima (Full Moon). The festival date varies every year, per the Hindu calendar, and typically comes in March, sometimes February in the Gregorian Calendar. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair ruptured relationships. (Source: Wikipedia.org)

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12 being killed on 7th Jan 2015 in Paris… We are Charlie Hebdo… Yo Soy Charlie… Ich bin Charlie… Som Charlie Hebdo

We are mourning for our colleagues of French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris who lost their lifes today in the shooting by three gun men. Bernard M. onair @ radio France Inter Our heartfully condolences go to the families and friends of all twelf victims. May all eleven injured persons recover fully. – The Chief Editor/Cultural Journalist/Moderator ElJay Arem Weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo (Paris) lost today its chief editor Stephane (known as Chab) and four (4) cartoonists (Cabu, Ph. Honoré, B. Velhac (aka Tignous) + G. Wollinski) beside seven (7) other victims (two of them have been police men). Anther one was radio colleague, jouranlist and radio presenter Bernard Maris (who had a weekly column entitled J’ai tout compris à l’économie, each Saturday on France Inter). Bernard was shareholder of Charlie Hebdo.
Comic Strip artist Jean Cabut 01/13/1938  –    01/07/2015	Protest flyer: «I am Charlie» (PDF from official website)	Stephane Charbonnier 8/21/1967  –  01/07/2015