Giridhar Udupa – Podcast

This episode of Quarantunes features Ghatam exponent Sri. Giridhar Udupa. Sri. Udupa expresses his concern for artistes heavily dependent on concerts for survival. He talks about deciding to broadcast, for a fee, 6 concerts of the Udupa Festival that he curates, proceeds of which would benefit such artistes…. He mentions several of his own international tours getting cancelled but also enjoying the more relaxed routine now.

This podcast is part of the Quarantunes series, featuring Indian Classical Musicians, recorded during the worldwide shutdown resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Released one by one, the full series is at https://lakshmianand.com

Sri. Udupa began his foray into percussion under his father Ullur Sri. Nagendra Udupa followed by training with Smt. Sukkanya Ramgopal and Sri. V Suresh. He has been part of many unique collaborative concerts and has played in august auspices throughout the world including at the United Nations, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Sydney Opera House, the Kennedy Centre at Washington DC, the Royal Festival Hall in London and many more. For this podcast, he plays a ghatam solo in Adi tALam.