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Flute or magic wand?





Shashank's playing was cerebral yet full of emotional content. V. BALASUBRAMANIAN

Veena maestro S. Balachander once commented during a TV interview that he was always jealous of flute vidwans, who just need to pack the instrument in their knapsack for their foreign tours whereas he had to book an extra ticket for his instrument!
Contrary to what he said, nowadays flautists carry lengthy boxes with flutes of various sizes, which they change for required octaves.
Recently, Shashank made maximum use of his flutes to keep the audience spellbound. A brief alapana of Durbar set the mood for the evening that was followed by the varnam. The evening's fare was dominated by Tyagaraja kritis; what more can one ask for?

For more, please click on the link below.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-editorialfeatures/article2740043.ece


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Maestro Shashank presented “Spirit of Krishna” at Bangalore in the presence of distinguished Foreign Ministers of 50 countries recently - some pictures from the event below.








(Spirit of Krishna - extended!)      


(Shashank being honoured by the Honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka 
Mr. Sadanand Gowda)      


(Shashank greeting His Excellencies Mr. Kevin Rudd of Australia 
and Mr. S.M. Krishna of India)

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Folk, Carnatic and Hindustani came together to celebrate the varied facets of Krishna on Day Two of The Hindu Friday Review November Festival















                                               (CONFLUENCE OF STYLES: Shashank and the 
                                                                Manganiyars)      Read the review from the concert


















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Shashank’s performance in Hyderabad - July 10, 2010 - 
review that appeared in The Indian Express. 



















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Shashank releases two new DVDs - Sundara and Mohana from 
live concert held in Chennai. The same is also released as a CD 
version. For more info, please refer to CD / DVD page.


        


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India tour of New Jungle Orchestra

The Jungle orchestra had a wonderful tour of India in collaboration 
with Shashank. The team performed in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, 
Delhi and Chandigarh and here are some of the pictures and reviews 
in some of the leading dailies of India.





A feature in the Deccan Herald, Bangalore - 18th Feb, 2010

Welcome to the Jungle, a review of the performance at Bangalore 
Deccan Herald, Feb 24, 2010

A magical fusion...a review in The Hindu, Bangalore - 23 Feb, 2010

Peace through Music, a feature in The New Indian Express, Chennai - 
24th of Feb, 2010

A feature article in The Hindu, New Delhi...... 26th of Feb, 2010

Review on the Chennai Performance - The Hindu, Chennai.....26th of 
Feb, 2010 

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