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RAAGA, Sa. Pa. Sa.
Singers in bright silk saris seated on a red stage before a large painted Ganesha idol, with a man in the foreground playing a flute

Sabha, सभा, Gatherings

Music is meant to be heard.

Through the year RAAGA holds concerts, workshops, lecture demonstrations and observances, and every one of them exists so that students have somewhere to sing.

Ganapati Navaratri concert, Jubilee Hills,

Coverage

In the press.

Newspaper clipping from Metro IndiaMetro IndiaEnglishClassical concert and Kolatam mark Ganapati Navaratri celebrations (opens the full clipping in a new tab)

Photographs

From our gatherings.

Aani Thirumanjanam festival, Nataraja Swamy temple, Tamil Nadu

  • A violinist, two women singing, one holding a book, and a mridangam player seated side by side on a striped mat in a temple courtyard
  • Five people in traditional dress and silk shawls standing in a temple doorway, holding a framed certificate between them
  • Three people in festive dress at a temple strung with coloured lights; the man in the middle holds a book
  • Four people in festive dress at a temple strung with coloured lights; one holds a book

Annual concerts

  • Singers in silk saris seated on a pink carpet in front of an orange wall, with a violinist at the left and a mridangam player at the right
  • Girls and women in bright traditional dress singing together on a low stage, with a mridangam player at the right and a flowering tree behind them
  • Singers seated on the floor of a courtyard under strings of lights, holding sheets of notes, with a stringed instrument leaning at the left
  • Singers seated on a striped mat keeping time with their hands, with a garlanded deity picture behind them and girls sitting on a low wall at the right

Cultural events

  • Singers seated close together on a white sheet in a room, with microphones in front of them and children holding up phones in the foreground
  • Group portrait of adults and children in festive traditional dress, standing and kneeling in rows against a white wall
  • An evening concert in an open-air amphitheatre, with young singers and a mridangam player on a carpeted stage and an audience on the stone steps
  • A man in white seated beside young singers on a carpeted stage at dusk, with microphones, floodlights and an audience seated on patterned paving

Saraswati Puja

Group photograph of women, a man and a boy seated and standing around a garlanded framed picture and a small deity statue

Concert at the Ainavilli temple

  • Singers seated on a striped platform at a temple concert, with microphones in front of them and stone pillars behind
  • Women singing side by side at a temple concert beneath a fringed canopy, with onlookers standing behind them
  • Singers seated on the floor of a temple hall around microphones, with a banner hung behind them and garlanded pictures at the right

Tyagaraja Aradhana at Thiruvaiyaru

Rows of women in colourful saris seated on sand behind rope barriers and microphones, under a large decorated tent with bright lights

Through the year

What we hold.

Concerts
Kutcheris where students perform the repertoire they have prepared, in the traditional concert format.
Workshops
Focused sessions on a particular aspect of practice: a raga, a form, or an element of technique.
Lecture demonstrations
Explanatory sessions where the music is unpacked as it is sung, for students and for listeners new to the tradition.
Guru Purnima
The annual observance honouring the teacher, and the lineage the teaching descends from.
Tyagaraja Aradhana
The annual commemoration of Saint Tyagaraja, whose kritis form the heart of the Carnatic concert repertoire.
Student performances
Recitals through the year that give every student an occasion to sing for an audience.

Dates for the coming term are confirmed with students first. Message us if you would like to be told when the next kutcheri or workshop is announced.

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