Spryk is an artist who defies genres and believes in complete freedom of expression. He was bought up in Mumbai but found fertile ground for his experimental music in Australia. Having perfected the art of playing the Indian classical instrument, table, he always showcases his strong background in rhythm. He has released his debut album Slow/Fast in 2016 and is currently busy with his sound lab, Press Play in Mumbai.
Watch him play live at Church Street Social this weekend to celebrate four years of Unmute.
Entry is free but RSVP is recommended.
Spryk is an artist who defies genres and believes in complete freedom of expression. He was bought up in Mumbai but found fertile ground for his experimental music in Australia. Having perfected the art of playing the Indian classical instrument, table, he always showcases his strong background in rhythm. He has released his debut album Slow/Fast in 2016 and is currently busy with his sound lab, Press Play in Mumbai.
Watch him play live at Church Street Social this weekend to celebrate four years of Unmute.
Entry is free but RSVP is recommended.
Beltuner is a Parisian gypsy folk rock band that was formed way back in 2001. They enjoy a good deal of popularity worldwide and are currently on an 8 city tour of India in association with Alliance Francaise. Beltuner comprises of Johann Riche (accordion), Pascal Muller (guitar), Arnaud Soidet (guitare) and Nicolas Pautras (double-bass). All four ban members are self-taught in musical discourse.
Watch them perform live at blueFROG in the city.
The Young Talent Program is a venture that explores young and new talent in art. For the longest period of time, fashion has been seen as a commercial venture and kept separate from main stream art. However, the new series of Young Talent will be focussing on fashion designers. Blurring Boundaries is the first exhibition this series and it will be featuring Priyanka Ella Lorena, a fashion designer who considers herself to be an artist at heart. She treats the fabrics her as canvases and created art with them. Subscribing to the Wabi-sabi school of art, she creates clothes with deliberate imperfections so that their beauty might be experienced in an unbundled way. Her label is called P.E.L.L.A and miniatures of her creations will be displayed at the exhibition as 3D installations.
Entry is free and all are welcome.
Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard
Pierrot escapes his frustrating job, mindless bourgeoisie society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl who is being chased by hit-men from Algeria. Actually, he is also a man unhappily married with kids and decides to run away with his baby sitter who is also an ex-girlfriend. In fact, he is met with her corpse when he enters her apartment.
Entry is free and all are welcome.
Sursagar and Alliance Francaise have together organised the Music Discourse series of concerts. This month, Bangaloreans will be privileged to see the performance of Shri. Kedar Narayan Bodas, who hails from the Gwalior gharana. The living legend will be giving a vocal recital accompanied by a sitar.
Entry is free and all are welcome.
Get high on laughter this weekend at the Bengaluru Laughter Carnival. The festivities include performances from Praveen Kumar and Mayandit, who is comedy is just as strange as his name. A comical beatbox will be performed by Vikas Sangam and a punch full of comic mime from Punchatantraa. Saveen Hegde will be hosting the show as usual.
Entry: Rs 350
Tickets available on BookMyShow
Sookshma is a odissi dance ballet that burrows its theme from an ancient folk tale penned by AK Ramanujan#39;s, collection of short stories. Sookshma is a bountiful woman - she is wondrous in beauty and unmatched in her kindness. He roots delve deep into the earth and her branches reach out towards the sky; she is after all a link between the human world and divinity. If treated with respect, she gives us back her bounty but could be also be left unprotected to be abused by miscreants?
The dance drama is choreographed and written by Sharmila Mukherjee.
Price: Rs 200; Rs 300
Tickets available on BookMyShow
Directed By: Lingaraj Ithihas
Written By: N. C. Mahesh
Ram comes to the city seeking an IT job from a place called Thenali. He shares a flat with three other guys who are quite some characters. Nidhi is their neighbour who is an IAS aspirant. Her father is a typically strict Indian father, so on and so forth. How Ram connects himself to the historic Thenali Ramakrishna, his hilarious interview at the IT firm and Nidhi#39;s falling in love with Ram will leave you in ripples of laughter.
Price: Rs 100
Tickets available on BookMyShow
Written Directed By: Salmin Sheriff
Beyond the fairytale scenes of a wedding, what you have is a marriage and in the end, a marriage is a deal like any other. Dreamers is a play that takes us behind closed doors to take a look at Sid and Maddy representing most Indian urban couples. They are selfish, naive and at times clumsy as they negotiate the ropes of their new married life.
Note: There is one show at 3 pm and another at 6.30 pm on April 10th.
Price: Rs 300
Tickets available on BookMyShow
Natya Utsav Vasant Rangmela is a theatre festival that will be happening at Atta Galatta this week. Fourteen amateur as well as professional theatre groups will be participating in this festival. The panel of judges includes respected theatre personalities like Satya Bharadwaj and Sudha Prasanna.
Price: Rs 150
Tickets available on BookMyShow
DJ Kave has been rated as one of the top DJs in the Hip Hop genre in India. Based out of Qatar he started his career in Doha. He has performed at various festivals like KLIMF Music Festival (Malaysia ) SANDANCE (Dubai) Music Festival and many more. His main claim to fame is being the official DJ for AR Rehman#39;s Oscar Jai-Ho concerts. And you are in luck as he will perform live in the city this weekend. Be there at blueFROG to be experience the best of Hip Hop.
Cover: Couple- Rs 500; Stag- Rs 1,000
Tickets available on Insider.in
DJ and producer Pawas Gupta is all set to perform live in the city. Pawas has classical roots, he has mastered the art of adding the tabla and percussion to his deep and Detroit music. Also, he is known for his album Starvation To Salvation and single tracks like Katang / Che Che, Playtex EP, Night Express and Squonk, among others.
Catch him live at blueFROG this weekend.
Cover: Couple- Rs 500; Stag- Rs 1,000
Tickets available on Insider.in
We always talk about how vibrant UK#39;s underground music scene is. And here we have one of the budding DJs from London#39;s very own underground club music circuit; Roska who is a basically a bass heavy music artists will perform at The Humming Tree this weekend. Watch out for his blocky beats and body-battering sub-bass and some choppy house percussion.
Entry is free.
Sam Abraham is a home-grown Techno artist from Bangalore who was part of the evolving house music scene in the city. Sam specialises in party tech-house music with a bit of minimal, hard core and groovy techno music thrown in. She moves through his own genre with ease and his adaptability make him popular. Watch him perform live at blueFROG.
Cover: Couple- Rs 500; Stag- Rs 1,000
Tickets available on Insider.in
River Man Band comprises a group of retro-pop spouting musicians who have started performing together since 2014. Jerusha Verghese (Female Vox), Abraham Varghese (Male Vox), Nisha Idicula (Backing Vox), Osi Gomango (Acoustic Guitar), Eric Samuel (Electric Guitar), Luke Pattison (Bass Guitar) and Wesley Newton (Drums and Percussion) aim to bring back the melodies of 60s and 70s while paying a tribute to Dwight Pattison.
Catch their performance at blueFROG this month.
Cover: Couple- Rs 500; Stag- Rs 1,000
Tickets available on Insider.in
Girish and The Chronicles is a rock band that hails from the North Eastern city of Gangtok, known for its affinity to rock n roll. The band, as its name suggest is spearheaded by Girish Pradhan. Girish is the son of Nepali singer, Bimal Pradhan and thus comes from a musical background. They are currently based out of Bangalore and will be playing at B Flat this week. Catch the for the immensely popular five- Girish Pradhan (Vocals/Guitars), Suraz Sun (Lead Guitars), Yogesh Pradhan (Bass Guitars), Nagen Mongrati (Drums) and Annutri Kaushik (Keyboards).
Entry: Rs 400
Tickets available on BookMyShow
The gypsies are famous for their mysticism, music and also their sense of humour. Never a better show than one put up by gypsies. So Gypsy Jesters is a show hosted at The Lost Caravan that welcomes guests to experience unadulterated rib-tickling laughter. The show will be hosted by the multi-talented Vamsi and headlines by Sanjay Mantakala. Get some bonus laughter from Suman Kumar, Kjeld Sreshth and Suhas Navarathna.
Price: Rs 400 (entry plus a mug of beer)
Tickets available on BookMyShow
End your week on a musical note to have happy Mondays. Hard Rock Cafe brings you new artists every weekend to make your Sundays extra special - this week, Motor Wade will perform live in the city. This four piece progressive rock band draws its unique sounds from the four different states its members hail from. Comprising of Rakesh Singh on vocal/ guitar, Uday Joshi on bass, Akshay Mokhalgaya on the drums and Santosh Sreenivasan on guitar, the band is a young stunner.
Directed By: Pramod Shiggaon
Written By: M.R.Sreenivasa Murthy
Villages are often are a boiling pot of interesting trivia; everyone knows everyone else and they all have their noses in each other#39;s business. This play is based on the writer#39;s experience as a village school inspector. Apart from being a laughter riot, this play also presents some great snippets of music. It presents a fresh perspective to village life for an inherently urban audience.
Note: There is one show at 3.30 pm and another 7.30 pm
Price: Rs 150
Tickets available BookMyShow
Directed By: Deevas Gupta Shaurya Singh
#39;Kharaashein#39; lieterally means #39;scars#39; in Hindi and it is one of Gulzar#39;s most famous plays. The basic framework of the plot is a weaving together of four different stories, with communal violence being the common thread. The stories have been strung together by Gulzar#39;s lyrical poetry. The characters take turns to recite the poetry and then the skits are enacted.
The first story is called Hilsa and it portrays the upper-middle class#39;s educated view of the riots. Raavi Paar is the tale of a family torn apart by the violence of the post-partition riots. Khauff connotes to the effects of fear on a man#39;s psyche. Khuda-Haafiz is a dramatizated version of Samaresh Basu#39;s #39;Aadaab#39; adapted by Gulzar in his own style.
Price: Rs 200
Tickets available on BookMyShow