An Indian vocalist from Mumbai has been invited to perform at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music to be held in Morocco next month. Vasumathi Badrinathan is one of a wonderful mix of performers at this years Fes Festival of World Sacred Music and will be presenting a concert of Carnatic vocal music.
"It is a matter of great honour and pride to represent India in that part of the globe," Vasumathi said.
The Fes Festival has a long tradition of presenting Indian artists and Vasumathi joins the list that includes the late Ustad Bismillah Khan (1997), Begum Parveen Sultana, Ustad Dilshad Khan (1998), Aruna Sairam (2000), Afroz Bano (2001), Anurekha Ghosh (2005), Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar (2005) and Sudha Raghunathan (2006).
Vasumathi will be accompanied by a violinist, a mridingam player and a morsing artist to the festival.
Other participants of the ten-day festival, which begins on June 1, include Barbara Hendricks from USA, Johnny Clegg from South Africa and Calire Zaramansky from France.
"I am happy that they have chosen me this year to give a performance for 70 minutes where I will be exposed to international audience," Vasumathi said.
About her current projects, the 40-year-old singer said "I have been doing collaborative projects with lot of classical musicians in France and am experimenting to infuse Carnatic music with French music."
Vasumathi has been performing widely within and outside the country for several years and has toured extensively in Europe and Asia Pacific countries. Apart from her concerts, her skill in presenting lecture-demonstrations and workshops has been well appreciated. Vasumathi is a recipient of the Junior Fellowship for music from the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India, awarded to outstanding young artistes. Vasumathi is the recipient of the title “Sur Mani” for her proficiency in music by the Sur Singar Samsad, Mumbai. Her music is often broadcast over the All India Radio, one of India’s strongest upholders of classical music.
Vasumathi has two classical music albums to her credit – Swara Dhwani and Tamil Padams. Vasumathi is involved in research work based on Divya Prabandham (Tamil poetry of the 5th – 9th century) and its relevance to music. Vasumathi has also presented several papers in various seminars.
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4 comments:
Why not just give the name of the guesthouses and associated contact details, instead of just the Fez Riads website which charges a booking fee.
Because the booking fee goes towards the restoration projects in the Medina. And the riad owners prefer not having to deal directly when someone will do it and raise money for a good cause. Simple.
Why is it that one person called anonymous is always sniping - and posting on the wrong post? I would not bother posting his silly attacks. He obviously has a problem!
People like that give Fassis a bad name.
Salaam Hassan.
May we ask you please to refrain from personal attacks? While we would rather not have anonymous remarks, we do not censor - but we certainly will if personal attacks are made. We have thousands of people reading the blog and we value them all.
Anonymous. Please be careful to post in the appropriate story. A couple of times you have posted in the wrong one. The post above should have been with the story it relates to. Thanks.
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