April CCC, Sun, 2019

Performers: Abinaya Srikant (student of Smt.Charumathi Ramachandran) Aditya Bashyam (student of Smt.Kasthuri Shivakumar) Ananya Rao & Shravya Srinath (students of Smt.Savita Rao) Apurvaa and Aishwarya Anand Violin duet (students of Smt.Anuradha Sridhar) Kishore Lakshmanan (student of Smt.Nandini Ramamurthi) Rajeev Devanath (student of Sri Paduka Academy ) Smriti Krishna Swaminathan (student of Smt.Chandrika Pai) Sumedh Vaidyanathan (student of Sri Paduka Academy) Tanisha Srivatsa (student of Smt.Sangeetha Swaminathan)

String accompanists: Aparna Thyagarajan (student of Sri Delhi P Sunderrajan) Mythri Sekar (student of Sri Saravanapriyan) Prahlad Saravanapriyan (student of Sri Saravanapriyan) Sahas Ramesh (student of Sri Vittal Ramamurthy) Shashank Venkat (student of Sri Arvind Lakshmikanthan) Tejas Bharadwaj (student of Sri B V Raghavendra Rao) Urmika Balaji (student of Vid. A Kanyakumari) Vishnu Srinivas (student of Smt Lakshmi Balasubramanya)

Mrudangam accompanists: Akshay Venkatesan (student of Sri Ramesh Srinivasan) Anirudh Rao(student of Sri Srinath Bala) Avinash Anand (student of Sri Arjun Ganesh) Lalit Kovvuri(student of Sri Ramesh Srinivasan) Pranav Tirumalai ((student of Sri Tiruchur Narendran) Sachin Venkat (student of Sri K V Gopalakrishnan) Shreyas Garimella (student of Sri Rohan Krishnamurthy) Sriram Subramanian (student of Sri Gopi L & Sri Tiruchur Narendran) Umesh Gopi (student of Sri Gopi L) Vaibhav Prakash (student of Sri Gopi L)

If you made time last Sunday for April CCC, thank you for attending the event and hope you all enjoyed it! If you missed the event, we missed you too, hope you can make it to next month’s event!

Our hearty congratulations to all our participants who showcased a quality presentation and sincere thanks to our core volunteers and the parents who helped with setup/clean up for a smooth event. Kishore's intro performance, three high school senior's (Sumedh, Abinaya and Apurvaa) final main slot performances,  and repeat performances of Smriti, Aditya, Tanisha, Ananya-Shravya, Rajeev and Aishwarya kept the audience engaged and a special thank you to those die-hard music fans who stayed until the end to witness the two-violins-one-sound duet performance.

Our accompanists take their role very seriously and they prepare so well for the group's on-stage presentation, which increases the quality of our CCC events even for the very young performers. Our kudos and appreciation to all the CCC accompanists in our pool.

Special gratitude to our audio team led by Namdev Nayak for their super (time) efficient handling of the sound aspects before, during and after. The best part about this team is, many of the team members do not have a child in CCC now and they help out with a true volunteering spirit like their lead.

Here are the pics from the event (courtesy of Vaidy Krishnamurthy), and our sincere thanks to him for covering the event and sending us these pics really quickly.

I am sure this video excerpt clip compiled by Vidya Anand would be a treat to watch and big thanks to her for recording/editing the videos!

Please save May 4th Saturday (4-7pm) for our next event. Good luck to all the Cleveland goers, hope you return with positive and fruitful experiences!

Happy Tamizh New Year (Vikaari) and Happy Vishu to you and yours!

Regards,