Margazhi Raagam

People from all over the world come to Chennai in the Tamil month of Margazhi (Dec 15 to Jan 15) to experience the music that mingles with the chill and mist in the air. Hundreds of concerts everyday for 30 days makes the Chennai music festival one of a kind in the world.
At first, Aghal Movies Tamil film Margazhi Ragam may seem like a random collection of Carnatic concert compositions put together in a vaguely interesting fashion. The genius behind the feature is apparent to you only much later, as you truly get into the mood of the piece, along with the artistes.

Music, after all, is the food of gods and the common man.

Tinga Tinga

Tinga Tinga is African primitive flat work. These days there are various Tinga Tinga schools of painting - from intricate and detailed animals intertwined with the feathers of peacocks, to tourist-oriented work with simple stylized characters at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Both are nice and have their unique appeals.




These fantastic works from a site http://www.tingatinga.org/  Look there more!

Birds of paradise dance

Superb!

Miss Indiana

Miss Indiana (USA)is an Indian American woman by the name of Courtni Shabana Hall.
Congratulations!

Pow Wow

Pow Wows are all about drums, songs and dance. Pow Wow time is the Native American people’s way of meeting together, to join in dancing, singing, visiting, renewing old friendships and make new ones.

Alegria

Cirque du Soleil Alegria .

Song: Francesca Gagnon - Alegria

Patrick de Warren

Mysticism in art-photography.

Manish Arora

Bright colours and brazen, Bollywood-influenced kitsch are hallmarks of designers such as Manish Arora.

Lavanya Nalli sarees

A fantastic saree collection from Lavanya Nalli (Bangalore,India)

Source - http://www.lavanyanalli.com/

Carl Orff - Gassenhauer

Carl Orff (1895 — 1982).
Gassenhauer nach Hans Neusiedl from Musica Poetica.

I Will Survive

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) (Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive). Performance by Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving & Guy Pearce.



+bonus from Traviata))

Desert Blues

Desert Blues, a music project with Habib Koité, Afel Bocoum and the Tuareg-Women-Ensemble Tartit from Timbuktu. All this musicians are poets and play the traditional instruments like tinde, tehardant, balafon, imzad...

Mai Mumbai fashion

"Mai Mumbai"("I am Mumbai") will bring together international and Indian fashion designers to showcase their creations on one runway adorned with India's best models, bollywood stars, athletes and prominent social and business leaders who together will wear bedazzled gowns and T-shirts and show their love for Mumbai & India. All the donated garments will be auctioned with proceeds donated to the victims of 26/11.

Yurcash - I love you

Adiga Dance

Name of adiga dance "shishan" means in adyge language "horse behavior" that is the name of the dance because the dancers run like horses.

Bembeya Jazz National

South Africa's unique blend of American jazz instrumentation and arrangement concepts with indigenous sources such as marabi. Many African groups such as Guinea's Bembeya Jazz and Zaire's T.P.O.K. Jazz incorporated "jazz" in band names but did not have the same direct connection to American jazz as in South Africa.
The legends of the african music:

Australian Aboriginal Digeridoo

Though it was particular to the clans in northern Australia originally, the didgeridoo (or yidaki) is now the most recognizable instrument in Aboriginal music. The classic didgeridoo is made from a termite-hollowed bamboo or eucalyptus limb, though today it's common to find didgeridoos made of PVC. The didgeridoo is played as a kind of woodwind aerophone, producing a low frequency sound that can be sustained and heard over long distances.

Amrita Sher-Gil

She died at an age people start discovering what they’re all about. 1913-1941.She was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo.

I have a Dream

Abba. I have a Dream.

I have a dream, a song to sing

To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream

I have a dream, a fantasy
To help me through reality
And my destination makes it worth the while
Pushing through the darkness still another mile
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream

I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream

Komuso

Komuso means "Priest of Nothingness."
The shakuhachi player was dressed as a komuso, a type of Zen Buddhist priest who once wandered throughout old Japan playing their flutes for alms and meditation. Like some kind of ghost, the komuso just stood there playing his flute while people walked around him practically ignoring him as he ignored them. It seemed a thing unreal.

Murcof, Truffaz, Singh

Murcof, Erik Truffaz & Talvin Singh - Live At Miles Davis Hall, Montreux Jazz Festival, 2006.

Musica Nuda

Musica Nuda is a duo consisting of singer Petra Magoni and bassist Ferruccio Spinetti. The group’s first two recordings, Musica Nuda and Musica Nuda 2, feature the pair transforming pop standards into creative jazz.

Thrissur Pooram

Thrissur Pooran, is celebrated in Thrissur (in Kerela)at Vadakkumnathan in the month of Medam (April) every year where the regaining deity is Lord Shiva. This 200 year old festival this year starts in Thrissur in Kerala on 1st May 2009.

Thrissur Pooram, the mother of all temple festivals in the state of Kerala held at the two devaswams- Paramekkavu Bhagavathy temple ( the Devi temple) and Thiruvambadi Sree Krishna temple ( the Krishna Temple). The main part of the Thrissur Festivals include the displays of parasols and processions by the two rival groups form Paramekkavu and Thiruvambadi representing the two parts of Thrissur.While the main participants are Paramekkavu and Tiruvambadi, close to the Vadakunnathan temple.Also participating and known as 'Cherupooram' are the suburban temples at Kanimangalam, Karamukku, Choorakkattukara, Laloor, Ayyanthole, Neithilakkavu and Chembukkavu, Panamukkampilly, altogether 8 deities.The sprawling Thekkinkadi maidan, encircling the Vadakumnathan temple, is the main venue of the festival.

This festival is celebrated with a colourful procession and parade of caparisoned elephants, parasols, drums, display of pyro-techniques. During the festival season, Thrissur, popularly known as the temple town in Kerala turns into a town of colour and celebrations.The exhibition of the paraphernalia of elephant decorative, commonly known as ‘Aana Chamayal pradarsanam’, the spectacular show of ‘Kudamattom’ in which parasols of myriad numbers, designs and colours are exchanged by the people atop the elephants. An elephant also carries the "thidambu" ( means image of the deity).

Lang Lang

Lang Lang (born 1982),accomplished classical pianist, has performed for world leaders and worked with the world’s best orchestras and conductors.
Lang Lang's smashing performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2