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As ever, the National Streets for Performing Arts provides a background track to your rainy days!
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Hello there!
George Bernard Shaw - renowned playwright and critic born in the 1850s - famously wrote that "Hell is full of musical amateurs." We at the NSPA have a bone to pick with the Irish lad, having been taken on a riotous journey by many so called "amateurs" over the last two odd years. We have walked alongside them into countless nukkads of Mumbai that - for a fleeting moment - were transformed from being ordinary waiting spaces in the daily grind of the average Mumbaikar into areas of live creation. We embrace the word "amateur" as a badge of honour, because it means that we get to be filled with awe and wonder. Wasn't it Frank Lloyd Wright who said that "an expert is a man who has stopped thinking because 'he knows'"? We hope you find our street performers just around the corner when you seek a haven - it might not be your personal musical heaven, but we're earnestly trying to get there someday!
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The Art Literacy mission going strong - now with Marathi fusion in the picture!
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"I've never taught children before - it's making me nervous," smilingly admitted singer Rahul Dandekar before entering Colaba Municipal School last Friday. It turned out that the young Marathi folk fusion duo - Rahul and guitarist Rohit Astekar - had little to worry about, because the 10 year olds took to them instantly, spending as much time cracking up at their jokes as singing their songs! The children learned about Bhimsen Joshi and the Pandharpur wari, and showed off their knowledge about Vithoba and Rakhumai. We return for a reprise of "Maajhi Maaher Pandhari" today, and start with ourUttar Bharatiya workshops next week!
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Video Podcast #2 - We present to you an Uttar Bharatiya lullaby!
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"Most children are introduced to the world of music with their bedtime loris (lullabies)," says our Allahabadi folk singer Achcchai Pandey. "It definitely has something to do with the fact thatloris have an innate kind of magic, making them appeal universally - in whichever language they may be." We agree with him wholeheartedly, for lullabies invoke many cherished memories of childhood - of nights spent terrified of the dark, only to be soothed by a parent or grandparent with soft refrains about the sun, the moon and the stars. This is why we're paying homage to this
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very intimately personal genre of music - with Achchhai Pandey at vocals, K. K. Singh at the dholak, and Malti Shah at the harmonium, with a special appearance by Achchhaiji's daughter Shagun!
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Here's what we have lined up for next week - all you have to do is stop and listen.
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Have a lovely weekend!
Yours truly,
The NSPA Team.
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