Song, singer and us

DEEPA GANESH Vijay Prakash’s concert remembering the singing sensations Rajkumar and Kishore Kumar at The Hindu November Fest reinforced the immortal nature of these golden compositions

It was ‘beyond’ music

DEEPA GANESH The Classical and Beyond concert at The Hindu November Fest was a star–studded performance

Recreating the magic of Dr. Rajkumar and Kishore Kumar

Akhila Krishnamurthy Singer Vijay Prakash and his band will try to recreate the magic of the legendary musicians

Songs from the road and beyond

Preeti Zachariah Love, loss and displacement... The songs of Lail Arad and JF Robitaille re-create the vibe of New York’s pubs of the 1960s and 70s

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Music beyond boundaries

Lata Ganapathy What began as a casual tete-a-tete gave birth to a soul-stirring collaboration

The Hindu November Fest

Worth every Benny

Srinivasa Ramanujam ‘The Music Men’ had Chennai entertained for three hours straight on Sunday evening

Music

Preeti Zachariah The troubadour becomes the muse in Lail Arad’s ‘1934’, a song that marked the late Leonard Cohen’s 80th birthday three years ago. Arad imagines herself to be Cohen’s lover, “probably not more” and launches into a description of what the affair would be like. “I’d be high on hormones, you’d be low on cash. We’d uncork a bottle, smoke into the stash,” she sings, concluding however that, “It’s just a shame that you were born in 1934.”Arad’s droll, gorgeous number, especially her veiled references

Chennai

The Hindu November Fest

Worth every Benny

Srinivasa Ramanujam ‘The Music Men’ had Chennai entertained for three hours straight on Sunday evening

The Hindu November Fest

Opening show of November Fest celebrates the idea of sound

Akhila Krishnamurthy The core of 'Classical & Beyond,' the opening show of the 13th edition of The Hindu November Fest, was a celebration of voice and instruments.

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Crossover concerns

Akhila Krishnamurthy Boundless delves into a deeply personal journey through music unfettered by genre

Hyderabad

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The decibel diaries

Susanna Myrtle Lazarus How to rock a concert like Benny Dayal, who embraces anonymity in a hoodie, ditches the VIP enclosure and screams his lungs out