‘Coming Alive to Music,’ a video from the Music Library reveals the power of music. Auroville's Music Library shares its music; find the link on the main page of the Music Library Group of Auronet. ATB: Awareness through the Body commencing on May 20; weekly classes throughout the summer. To reserve a place/for more information contact Amir by mail (tamaramir@auroville.org.in) or call 975 125 7709. Read more

Last evening the bharath nivas auditorium was witness to a spectacular Hindustani Jugalbandhi from Pandit Shivnath Mishra and his family.Pandit Shivnath Mishra was accompanied by his son Deobrat Mishra on the sitar and his grandson Prashant Mishram was on the tabla. it was a perfect harmony of three generations on one platform. The beautiful ragas left the audience enthralled. The trio presented one of pandit shivnath's composition called "ma ganga". At the close of the event they played the bhairavi . Read more

Yes, end of the busiest season in Auroville is here, holidays started ,and at Well Caffe in Sve-Dame last Friday was organized live concert with Suryan, Joel and Will and with Yemadas. Hot summer night, candle lights and mellow music of songs mostly known to us, was a perfect occasion to meet with the friends, to maybe dance, to jam after the concert. After intimate songs of Suryan with Joel on bass, and Will on drums, Yemadas with visiting Anand and Prakash raised the fever with African and Brasilian beats, hard to resist not to dance. Read more

Hemant Chauhan is considered one of Gujarat’'s best and most widely celebrated singer of bhajans and folk music. He is frequently referred to as the bhajan king of Gujarati music, and is also considered to be one of the best singers of Sugam Sangeet. He has a huge fan base in Gujarat and abroad for his divine music and singing. It is believed that his performances of bhajans and devotional music have the ability to carry the listener into a tranquil, relaxed and serene world. Read more

Rolf "come back" with guitar, accompanied by Matt Littlewood on keyboard, Mishko M'Ba on bass and Suresh Buscara on drums, was special treat for jazz lovers, friends. It was also his first gig as an author of all the compositions. Light atmosphere of playful jazz, excellent solos of musicians who's skills allow to transcend form the written form to the places beyond, and further, brought broad smiles on the faces of the numerous audience. For the great sound kudos goes to Joel, and for the light to Jean. Read more

Featured today is Danny, member of Auroville Council giving an update on some of the current issues. Dedicated volunteers are organizing an Earth Day celebration for Sunday 22 April; the theme is 'Present Day' meaningful either way. They need a free-of-charge venue. To support in any manner, call 978 695 5474. Workshops, lessons on sitar and tabla as well as Varanasi sitars to buy can be arranged... email vikram@auroville.org.in Read more

Akatha Kahani or untellable story is a presentation on Kabir, where three sisters attempt to showcase this special alchemy between Kabir and his listeners by sharing their individual encounters with Kabir. One wrote a book for young adults, another sings her songs passionately and yet another expresses Kabir's impact on her through Bharatnatyam. Akatha Kahani, features Jaya Madhavan author of Kabir the weaver poet book, Bindhumalini a singer trained in both Carnatic and Hindustani music and Archana, a Bharatnatyam dancer and French translator. Read more

Open House at Mohanam Kindergarten present children's work on 21 April. New Creation Montessori School present children's works from this year, Saturday 21st of April. Earth Day Events Preparation need volunteers to organize workshops between 16th and 22nd April. A Sitar Concert by Pandit Shivnath Mishra will be in Auroville 28th April, in Bharat Nivas Auditorium. There is a Tango Workshop with Vivek from Mumbai at Arka. There is a 3-day family retreat from April 13-15. An Invitation to Vedic chanting by Nishtha at Savitri Bhavan. Read more

Just few hours before the first Kabir musical event in Kalabhumi. Listen to Parvathy Baul, Shabnam Virmani and Prahlad Tipanya sharing (in Hindi & English) their spiritual experiences. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Satsanga, Satsangam, Satsang (Sanskrit ??????? sat = true, sanga = company) in Indian philosophy means the company of the "highest truth," the company of a guru, or company with an assembly of persons who listen to, talk about, and assimilate the truth. Read more

For his homeback after couple of years Rolf prepared concert on 21st of April at 8pm at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture in International Zone together with Matt on piano, Suresh on drums and Mishko on bass. Sooner or Later he named the concert which will be consisted of his compositions, and as such would be a highlight of his musical career. Going trough changes and transitions he also decided to change his area of work, and started to teach math at Transition School. Read more

Kalarippayat, Mohiniyattam and Theyyam were performed by the Udayan's Masters at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium. Kalarippayat is a great and ancient physical, cultural and martial art of Kerala, which was in prevalence from time immemorial. It is primarily an art of physical culture, well developed in a most scientific way. It aims at giving a practitioner of the art, perfect control over his body balance, flexibility, stamina and speed, and perfect neuro-muscular co-ordination, an ability of the body to react instinctively to the senses. Read more

She who Unspins, performed by Ashwini Kaarthikeyan, was presented at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas. The performance was accompanied with live music by P.T. Narendran (Nattuvangam), G. Srikanth (Vocal), B.P. Haribabu (Mridangam), Easwar Ramakrishnan (Violin), Devaraj (Flute). This performance was a repertoire of purely Bharatanatyam classical recital dance in Tamil, Sanskrit & Telugu with simultaneous projected translations in English. Read more

Body Consciousness in Movement, the two days Contact Improvisation Workshop by Irene Sposetti & Johan Nilsson will start on Saturday 31 of March in the morning 9.00-12.00 and it will continue at the same time on 1 of April at the Dance Studio in New Creation. They will awake openness, receptivity, softness and fluidity in the body movement. They will concentrate on presence and spontaneity, on the capacity to find new ways of moving as they explain in the interview. Open at all level, with live music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED8hNoulZv4 Read more

The dance form of Mohiniyattam comes from Kerala. The name Mohiniyattam literally means 'Dance of the Enchantress, Gopika Varma's training in Mohiniyattam since the age of ten has been under eminent gurus senior students of Kalyani Kuttyamma whose student she continued to be for 10 years. And here she is, accompanied by three dancers and a group of musicians, performing in Bharat Nivas. Unfortunately, this recording contains only sound, but the live music is definitely worth listening to, and the pictures give a good impression of the evening. Read more

If one tries to understand what really awaits us with the first sacred music festival Kabir, stumbles upon something that is not reachable by words, it is something that will need to be experienced on our own. For sure for three days the next weekend of 6th, 7th and 8th of April we will be busy with it. In the mornings and afternoons they will screen films on Kabir, which could give us the key to the beginning of understanding. Evenings full of different musicians and artist, and since the group is big it will be hard to avoid them in all. Read more

The Russian Singing Bells came to Auroville as an inspiration for the Russian Pavilion about four years ago, and ever since have been bringing special and joyful experience to many during the Sunday meditations at Unity Pavilion in International Zone. Vera, who plays on them since, felt the need for a change and brought the bells to open-outdoor space in March. That series finished with yesterday's meditation on the platform between the buildings at Town Hall, opposite Le Morgan cafe. Open and informal space allowed the bells to vibrate, and resonate peace and beauty Read more

Kabir Festival is just around the corner and in today's news we feature an excerpt of interview of friends of Kabir.... RAS invites us to a gathering of the residents on Friday April 6 5pm-7.30pm at the Visitors' Centre. ALL IS ONE (EachOneTeachOne projects) starts on Saturday with workshops at Verite at 5pm, and the main performance will be at Visitor Centre on 3rd of April. We can see GOPIKA VARMA in the MOHINIYATTAM dance on Wednesday 28th at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas in International Zone. Sadhana Forest Haiti's 2nd birthday Read more

On 13th at Cripa the Voice Polyphoniques, a vocal women group made by Brigitte Cirla, Tania Zolty and Marianne Suner, has performed Black Sea Songs in Georgian, English and French. The concert is a tribute to Edisher Garakanidse, singer, ethno-musicologist and founder of the group Mtiebi from Georgia. He taught at the music conservatoire in Tbilisi where he was a colleague of Nato Zumbadze and post graduate tutor to Nana Kalandadze, who worked with Brigitte Cirla and Helen Chadwick on the first edition of this Black Sea concert. Read more

Interesting combination of some Ukrainian and Russian folk songs with tabla, performed by Olga, Rustam, musical travellers from Ukraina, and Raj from Sadhana Forest, who brought to listeners a unique blend of cultures. They named it Jamming in the Clouds, and as all three are, although young, very talented and experienced musicians, songs were played and sung smoothly. Olga with her amazing voice shared pure joy from the highest pitches to the throat singing of folk songs, and expressed her clear and high devotion through mantras. Read more

AT 6pm La Terrace Mr.N. Balabaskar wlll greet the community, and in today's news we feature short interview with Uma on the official visit of Spanish Consul Mr. Antonio Bullon on Saturday, 24th of March, and excerpt of interview with Vera on Sunday meditation at Town Hall at 4pm with Russian Bells. Tomorrow at 7.30pm at Pitanga Liudmila on soprano and Pushkar on piano will share with the community concert of classical music by works of Haendel, Mozart, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Ashwini Kaarthikeyan dance on Saturday. Read more

On 13th at CRIPA Nathalie Mentha performes Per Edith Piaf, with the direction and the technical assistance by Pino Di Buduo, from Teatro Potlach in Italy. This performance is a musical journey in France of the 1930s and 1950s through Edith Piaf's songs - stories of lives in the underworld of the French gangsters, stories of women in love, stories of passion, of dreams, of memories. The theme, the soul which ties all the stories together, and maybe even more Edith Piaf's own soul, seems to be: Whatever happens, don't ever stop believing in love. Read more

Ukrainian musicians Olga and Rustam are traveling through India for the last four months. On the advice of somebody, they decided to pay a visit to Auroville as well. First impressions and first disappointments, and of course the fact that Auroville is a pretty expensive place to visit, almost turned them off. But they insisted in their search for the musicians living and working here, and as the result of their quest, there will be a concert on Tuesday, 20th of March at Sadhana Forest at 7.30pm, and on Wednesday 21st at Unity Pavilion at 7.30pm. Read more

Auroville will be richer from this year on also for the first sacred music festival - Kabir, which will happen on 6th, 7th and 8th of April. Moghan, one of the Auroville Performing Arts Group member, and one of the organizers talks with us on the festival itself and shortly about Kabir, a mystic poet, who was beyond any religion but had a beautiful mystic experience being one with the Divine. The poetry and music itself is very touchy, simple and speaks directly to the heart. It is joyful as the meeting with the spirit of Divine should be. Read more

The Auroville Community will have an opportunity on March 22 at 6pm at La Terrace to welcome back Mr N. Balabaskar, our new Secretary and at the same time, to bid farewell to Mr S. Loganathan, who has been the Acting-Secretary. Kabir festival of sacred music will happen here in Auroville on different location on 6th, 7th, 8th of April. In today's news we feature excerpt of interview with Moghan on it. On Saturday 24th at 7pm children of Deepanam School will share with us their annual cultural show in the form of musci, songs, dance and plays. Read more

Parvathy Baul, so well known to Auroville audience and always warmly welcome for who she is, what she quietly yet firmly stands for, this time organized the Tantidhatri Festival. Her own journey as a Baul singer has not been one lined with roses, but the call for it was stronger for her. In her play, her songs, her mesmerizing voice and passion and energy brought to life a universal story of love. Her paintings, as part of the performance, vividly depicted the characters of Rahda and Krishna and others. Read more

This is a performance called 'Yuki' by Keiin Yoshimura from Japan. It is one of the most popular jiuta dances which tells the story about the Japanese woman Yuki who decides to become a nun in a monastery. Accompanied by traditional Japanese music (Soh Sugiura) Keiins sublime movements and her fascinating appearance impressed the audience. After her dance, the visitors were given the chance to ask questions and get to know her a little better. Programme in English and Japanese. Read more

Muthu Kumar plays tabla, and is a student of Ustad Allarakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain. The sitar was played by Sanjeev Korti, a musician schooled by Ustad Shafiq khan from Dharwad. It was a refreshing experience to have these artists play in Auroville for the first time. The sounds from both instruments were equally present, and the longer Muthu and Sanjeev played, the more they started to interact through their music. Combine that with great tabla solos, and the whole performance is a joy to hear! Read more

As every year, Anna was back on stage with her concert 'Rock and Love for Your Soul' for all of us rock (and of course funk, soul, r&b) music lovers. And, as one guest exhaled, we went down the memory lane... From lady Gaga to Stones, from Adele to Michael Jackson... The music made us move and shake our bodies to the groove (though some got a bit too excited!). Anna was supported by Pierre (Guitar), Edo (Guitar), Saga (Bass) and Saravanan (Drums). It was a night to be together and share with Anna the passion for music and dance! Read more

Volunteers to AurovilleRadio come from different parts of the world, different backgrounds, professions or line of studies, but up until now nobody had ever come from Europe on a cycle! Marek did, all the way from his home town Liepzig in Germany. Over 11 000 kilometres, many countries he has now got behind him, and as he confides, he started to travel to see the world, and traveling such a long way on cycle seems much nicer to him. It gives him the opportunity to see more at a slower pace and always presents a possibility of unplanned stops. Read more

In today's news Danny updates us on the Auroville Council. Tonight at Bharat Nivas Auditorium a Tabla and Sitar Recital: Muthu Kumar on tabla, Sanjeev Korti on sitar 7:30 pm. Georges Van Vrekhem's next talk Saturday 17 March 5 pm Savitri Bhavan. FAMC approved formation of Varuna-Auroville, a new unit: a wind generator to be donated to the Auroville Foundation to supply electricity to Auroville. Sharma (working with EcoPro) demonstrates making charcoal with small wood, using household level technology. At Grace, Wednesday, 14 March 3-5 pm Read more