Lamakaan

On Friday 13th August at 7:30 pm in Lamakaan, The Hyderabad Western Music forum presents

Deccan Voices! A New Choral Ensemble in Hyderabad

Singing everything from the Beatles to Broadway music showcases

A preview of their repertoire prepared for the 19th Glorious Festival of Harmony, Bangalore

Accompanied by Joe Koster (Conductor/Keyboard) and Karthik Kalyan (Drums)

The entry for this event is free and open for all.

On Thursday 29th of July at 8:30 pm we are bringing back a guest who has enthralled the city for years.  Legendary ghazal singer Vithal Rao will be performing at Lamakaan.

Vithal Rao has inspired a generation of ghazal singers from Hyderabad. He has also been a guru to many now established singers.

Apart from his ghazal singing, we will also hold conversation with him in this intimate setting.

The Admission is Free.

An Exploration… The Effect of Music on the Mind followed by a Jazz Performance at Lamakaan on Sunday, 25th July at 7 pm.

This is an event being organized by the Hyderabad Western Music Forum.  Entry is open to all. Entry fee is Rs100 for non members and Rs 50 for members.

It is going to be an unusual evening, where research scholars in music from Finland, will present their findings on how Music effects the mind and the senses. The presentation will be audio visual. Then, their Professor, an experienced jazz pianist, will play jazz standards on piano accompanied by bass and drums. Find details of the event below.

An Exploration… The Effect of Music on the Mind

A Presentation by members of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Jyvaskyla, Finland

https://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/musiikki/en/research/coe

Petri Toiviainen is the founder and head of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Jyvaskyla, Finland.

His research interests include music cognition, music information retrieval, and

music motorics. Within these areas, he focuses on modelling of music perception, computational analysis of musical structure, and kinetics of

music-related movement.

Followed by a Jazz performance:

Petri Toiviainen – Keyboard/Piano

Petri Toiviainen is a seasoned jazz pianist. With his Combo, he has played

at jazz festivals in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Germany and Canada.

He has also performed with trumpeters Ted Curson (USA) and

Palle Mikkelborg (Denmark) as well as vocalist Anita Wardell (UK).

Accompanied by

Bernard Genevois - Electric Bass

Bernard Genevois is from France and is stationed In Hyderabad at present.

An engineer by profession, he has been playing electric bass guitar and double bass in French jazz and rock bands and has done concerts with a many good musicians.

Kartik Kalyan – Drums

Kartik is originally from Hyderabad, works with an IT company and travels extensively. He performs as part of a Piano drums Jazz Duo. He has a very good jazz sensibility with percussive drive and swing.

This friday ie 16th July, 7:30 pm onwards, Lamakaan will hold it’s first Open Mic Night.

Come play and listen to the Beatles, America, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and more.

If you can strum or hum, then play and sing some. Or just enjoy an evening of classic rock .

Veenu and Shriram who study music in Finland will be opening.

The event is open to all and free