Chennai: For almost two years now, with the Temple festival muted due to a pandemic, the tones of the Nadaswaram were barely heard.
Except of course if you live next to someone like an artist Nadaswaram t k maheswari in a thirtumoor near Thiruvaiyaru.
Even though the marriage and festival were canceled, the 46-year-old player woke up every morning at the age of 4 to hone his skills.
“Nadaswaram was hard and I knew that I woke up neighbors, but it was the only time I could practice.
I haven’t appeared in almost two years so I have to defend it.” This month though it’s fun, he said, because he must appear for a virtual concert series – Parivadini’s Nava Shakti – featuring Nadaswaram artists who played for nine days of Navaratri at 9 am.
“Since 2013 we have focused on the provision of platforms for Nadaswaram artists, documenting musicians and art and providing assistance to financial stress by contributing instruments to them,” said Lalitha Ram, founder of Parivadini and the founder of carnatics.
“Nadaswaram artists hardly allocated the main slots during the concert season in Music Sabhas and earned a living by appearing at the wedding and functions outside the temple.
With Covid that the source of income has also dried up,” he said, adding that before 2020, Parivadini hosted Bimonthly Nadaswaram Concerts.
“This year, we decided to bring artists to the senior care community center in Kalyanpuram to perform directly for residents when we recording.
Nadaswaram is known to be mostly for representation of its members, which is why we want to celebrate female artists.
They will appear with their husbands because of They usually play together as a team, “he said.
Like Maheswari and her husband T C Karanganidhi, another artist’s couple, Kalamamani S Shanthi and Senthilmurugan’s husband from Thiruvanamalai will also appear for this series.
“We almost never had the main artist at Kutcheri,” Shanthi said.
“Most of the main headline concerts such as Veena, violin, or flutes.
We are just remembered when there is a temple festival and it needs to change.
The first step is to ask Nadaswaram teachers in music universities in the state, especially the teachers of women.
Only so we will Having more people took this artwork, “said the 46-year-old player.
The Nava Shakti Parivadini series on October 15.