Annamacharya Jayanti Celebrations in Morrisville, NC

May 22nd, 2008 admin Posted in Events | No Comments »

On May 17th, Kavita’s music teacher, Mrs. Anuradha Chivukula, organized Sri Annamacharya Jayanti celebrations at the Hindu Bhavan Hall in Morrisville, North Carolina. She has been organizing this event every year for the past 11 years. The main purpose is to celebrate the great 15th century poet-composer-saint Sri Annamacharya by bringing together the local Carnatic music and Indian Classical dance talent to participate in the celebration. This also gives a wonderful opportunity for the local and regional audiences to enjoy some beautiful music and dance, and socialize. Many of the participants and members of the audience also bring food items and this provides for a large pot-luck style lunch and is an added draw for the audience. Of course, all of this is at no cost to the audience! Kavita participated this year in the event by singing, as part of a group, 4 kritis composed by Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya.

Here are some video snippets of the event.

 

 



 

Two girls (whose names I will provide as soon as I can find out) did an awesome job singing the kriti, “Vande Vasudevam”.

 

Kavita’s music teacher, Mrs. Anuradha (in the center in the video) along with other participants (Left to Right: Mrs. Jyothi Sadhu, Mrs. Srikanthi Gunturi, Mrs. Anuradha Chivukula, Mrs. Lakshmi Putcha and Mr. Subramanyam Darbha) sang the 7 main compositions by Sri Annamacharya, called Saptagiri Kirtanas. They were supported by, Mr. Kalyan Sundar on the veena, Mr. Vikram Raj Kumar on the violin (Vikram is an NC State student) and Master Arjun Raghavan who did a splendid job playing the mridangam.

 



 

Kavita and friends (Left to Right: Mrs. Sumana Nanduri, Mrs. Kavita Krishna, Mrs. Usha Jayanthi, Mrs. Lakshmi Karra and Mrs. Uma Gorti) singing some kirtanas.