Indo-American Festival of Performing Arts

Sarovar 2015
For Global Peace & Harmony

May - June 2015

Saturday, April 18th at 4:00pm
Vocal: Vidwan Sanjay Subrahmanyan
Violin: S. Varadarajan
Mridangam: Neyveli B. Venkatesh

Lawrence Technological University - Science Auditorium - S100
21000 W 10 Mile Rd, Southfield, Michigan 48075

Global Fridays feat "Divine Sounds of the Bamboo"
Friday, May 1 - Workshop @ 5:30pm, Concert @ 7:30pm
Shantala Subramanyam with Avaneeswaram Vinu and Palghat Mahesh
Arab American National Museum Annex
13624 Michigan Ave, Dearborn, Michigan 48126


Note for GLAC members: All GLAC life members and children will have free tickets on a first come first serve basis with email confirmations only. Public tickets will be sold by AANM at the door.
RSVP via email to hold your free ticket today!

GLAC is partnering with the Arab Museum in bringing you 'Global Fridays' in Dearborn. This is the next step in the annals of GLAC in bringing Indian music to the mainstream diaspora. GLAC will be advertised and aired on NPR Detroit several times a day from mid April.
 

Annamacharya Aradhana Utsavam
607th Birth Anniversary of Annamacharya

Venue: Main Prayer Hall, Bharathiya Temple
6850 N. Adams Road, Troy, MI
Prasadam will be served after the event

Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya (05-09-1408 to 02-23- 1503) is an ardent devotee of Lord Venkateswara (Balaji) of Tirupati. He has composed 32,000 krithis in the Carnatic music tradition. He has offered these Krithis as flowers to Lord Venkateswara. Annamayya is a great vaggeyakara, and known as pada kavitha pitamaha. He has composed keerthans in various genres like lullabies, marriage , devotional, social and philosophy.

On this event we are encouraging only Sri Annamayya Keerthanalu on Lord Venkateswara. Kids are welcome and we encourage them.

There is no entry fee either to list or to participate.

FREE DAY
Saturday May 16th, 2014
30th Annual Michigan Thyagaraja Aradhana
The Paschimakasi Sri Viswanatha Temple Auditorium

Paschima Kasi Sri Viswanatha Temple, Flint, MI

8.30AM      Pooja and Bhajans
9.00AM      Group singing of the ‘Pancharathna Krithis’
10.30AM     Individual Singing
12.30PM     Mangala Arathi
12.35         Free Lunch
1.30           Harikatha by Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri TNS
1.30           Individual Singing (contd)

Click here to register for individual/group singing..

FREE DAY
Saturday May 16th, 2014 @ 1:30PM

Harikatha 'Katha Kalakshepa' on Thyagaraja Charitram -- a discourse by Sangeetha Kalanidhi Madurai Shri T. N. Seshagopalan

Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan learnt music under his mother, and later under tutelage of Ramanathapuram C. S. Sankarasivan. He holds a degree in science from Madras University and a degree in music from Madurai University where he serves as professor of music. He is a also a composer and a master of the veena and harmonium and an exponent of harikatha.

7:00 PM Vocal Concert - K Bharath Sundar and party (araajakamtour2015)

Bharat Sundar - Vocal
VVS Murari - Violin
Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam
KV Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira

Online ticketing:
Tickets can be purchased online by clicking the 'donate' button and paying $20/person. GLAC welcomes our rasikas all the way from Indianapolis who have reserved their tickets!

FREE DAY
May 30th Saturday:

Indo American Festival of Perfoming Arts
An afternoon of performances show casing North American talent from all over the USA
Venue : Varner Hall, Oakland University
2200 N Squirrel Rd, Rochester, MI 48309 (248) 370-2100


1:00 PM - 1:45 PM       Group performance (Students of Intl Academy of Indian Music - names in the bottom) Varner Hall
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM       Carnatic Symphony - A fusion of Western classical orchestra and Carnatic music
                                Concept by K.N. Shashikiran, presented by students of carnatic music in Metro Detroit" - Varner Hall
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM       V3 - A North American Instrumental Medley (Veena Venu Violin)
                                 Keerthana Sankar, Kamal Kiran, Shruthi Subramaniam, Shashank Subramaniam
                                 Arthi Nathan, Athrey Nathan, Kiran Vangipuram Varner Hall
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM       Lecture Demonstration - Grammar and Aesthetics of Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi
                                 Madurai R. Sundar Mezzanine Classroom
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM       Break Mezzanine
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM       Sponsor's address and introduction Varner Hall
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM       Vibrations ensemble - $20 for non members
                                 Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan, Raghavendra Rao, Mark Stone, Ravishankar, Guruprasad, Surenthar Varner Hall

6:30PM: Vibrations ensemble presented by
Laya Rathnakara Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan
Ravi Shankar Keyboard And Vocal
Five String Electric Violin Ragavendra Rao
Ghatam GuruPrasad & Morsing Surenthar

May 31st Sunday: $10 for non members ALL DAY

Indo American Festival of Perfoming Arts
An afternoon of performances show casing North American talent from all over the USA
Venue : Varner Hall, Oakland University
2200 N Squirrel Rd, Rochester, MI 48309 (248) 370-2100

 

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM       Anubhava - A Unique Dance by North American Youth Varner Hall
                                 Concept and Choreography:
                                 Joshua George, Nivedha Ramalingam & Shriya Srinivasan
                                 Dancers
                                 Bhavya Kumaran of IL
                                 Joshua George of IL
                                 Mathangi Sridharan of OH
                                 Nivedha Ramalingam of ON
                                 Shriya Srinivasan of OH
                                 Sutikshna Veeravalli of IL
                                 Orchestra
                                 Mathura Sridharan of OH (Nattuvangam)
                                 Keerthana Sankar of MI (Vocal)
                                 Athrey Nadhan of IL (Mridangam)
                                 Arthi Nadhan of IL (Veena)
                                 Kamalakrian Vinjamuri of VA (Violin)
                                 Shashank Subramaniam of MI (Flute)        
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM       Percussion Jugalbandi with Vinod Seetharaman, Mark Stone, Sam Jeyasingham & Patrick Fitzgibbon Varner Hall
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM       Panel discussion with North American youth talent co-ordinated by Prof Mark Stone Mezzanine Classroom
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM       Break Mezzanine
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM       Violin & Mridangam duo Violin: Sri Nagai Muralidharan & Sriram & Mridangam: Sri Manargudi Easwaran & Vijay Ganesh
                                 Varner Hall

 

Siva Punya Gana Mani Brahmashri Papanasam Sivan’s birth anniversary is celebrated every year in September. He has composed over 2000 songs in both carnatic music and film songs. His compositions include varnams, kritis, operas and all types of compositions typically rendered in all concerts. To propagate the works and compositions of Papanasam Sivan, the Sivan Fine Arts Academy conducts annual music and dance competitions to showcase the talents of students of Vocal, Instrumental and Dance.