April 2020 In this unprecedented time, quarantined as we all are due to the COVID-19 pandemic, music has been a particularly big source of happiness, comfort and solace to many of us. However, the musicians’ own lives have been upended with all concert engagements and international tours cancelled in this…
B Shree Sundarkumar, aka The KanjiraMan, is acknowledged as a wizard on the kanjira by artistes young and old, prolific and niche, Carnatic and other genres. An “artiste of eminence” says Sangita Kalanidhi Umayalpuram K Sivaraman. “Incomparable,” says kanjira artiste BS Purushotham. “Rare calibre,” says vocalist Abhishek Raghuram, who himself…