Indian Association Get-together

Saturday, October 28, 2006

IAOS - Indian Association of Siouxland arranged a get together in SF. See the word Siouxland NOT SiouxFalls..it means literally counties around SF including Minnesota,Iowa,Nebraska and ofcourse SD. They had invited an Indian Orchestra group from Minneapolis. Mostly university students of Minneapolis and software prefoessionals - all in their twenties. Entry was for 15$ with snacks provided. It was a dull affair. The group were amateurs and the audience was unenthusiaistic although the auditorium was full..As my baby was in the orgnizing comittee,i was cajoled/dragged to it. Most of the songs were Hindi with 2 tamil and one telugu. Not surprisingly, the telugu song from Pokiri was welcomed with whistles/claps. A Marathi girl (see Pic) sang Jean's "Kannodu kanbadellam thalaivaa" song with pure carnatic background and tamil accent perfect. Really,i appreciate her effort. In contrast, a tamil girl from the audience rendered "kannalane" from Bombay horribly. During the end, children were lifted to the stage and their performance/dance to the song was sweettt. Everyhing was over by 7:15 Pm and i was back to home by 8 PM.
 
posted by Maridass Balasubramanian at 9:52 PM, |

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