In today's news we are featuring Mawite from Auroannam Farm inviting us on Sunday at 4.30pm their participation to Earth Day's celebration. Free market will be going on at Solar Kitchen on Saturday morning, TEDx talks on ecology at Conference Room in Town Hall, pot luck dinner with Earth Healing Ceremony at sunset with live music and dancing at Terra Soul at Windarra Farm from 5pm onward. .....At 7.30pm at Ptianga A Musico - Pictoral Concert with Chapman sticks, reverse painting, tables and saxophone by Jacky, Anaka, Manosh and Matt. Read more

Concert in Svedam last Saturday evening - "The Sun Waves" presented by Hibiscus Art Village Project in Well Cafe. The first part was Concert of Trinity - Daniel, Caroline and Co, was an improvisation with vocals and several acoustic instruments . The second part was "Tribal World Music" by Yemadas , a band that needs no introduction here in Auroville. Yemadas is a ethnic fusion band who plays their original songs inspired in Africa and Brazil traditional songs. Since Yemadas - Ana and Tiago are leaving, this was last performance. Read more

All was invited to participate in the Literary Festival of Kamba Ramayana on 31st March 2013 Sunday at Bharat Nivas, Auroville. A whole day full of lectures, discussions, music, dance and theater lead by great scholars and reputed personalities to address our students, staff and public from Auroville region. This event was organized by the Tamil Heritage Centre to celebrate the Kamba Literary Festival. Kamba lived almost 1000 years ago during the Chola dynasty from the centre part of Tamil Nadu and wrote Ramayana in Tamil. Read more

Like every year, Upasana Design Studio celebrated Holi, the Colors Festival, on Wednesday 27th of March. In the North of India, it's New Year, but everywhere else it's also the beginning of summer. As soon as the guests arrived in Upasana, organizers and other participants threw on them colored powder. They even stopped motor bike on the road to make them join this joyful moment, full of harmless colors and laughter. People shared snack together, listened to music and danced in the garden. At the end of the afternoon, they even threw water ! Read more

Pandit Shivnath Mishra performed in Auroville! He was in the Bharat Nivas on Wednesday, 6th March with his son Deobrat, also on Sitar, and Prashant Mishra on Tabla. It’s very rare to see three generation master musician’s on same stage. That is what we offer Pandit Shivnath Mishra and his two sons Deobrat and Prashant Mishra, among the world’s finest Sitar and Tabla Artists. Read more

One of the youngest President Award Winning “A” Grade’ Sarod artiste of All India Radio & National Television- Kolkata, Abhisek has won the hearts of discerning audiences worldwide with his maturity, depth & perfection already at the age of 28. Abhisek was initiated in Sarod at an early age of 6 & trained under the tutelage of his father as well as Guru, eminent Sarod player Pt. Alok Lahiri & becoming one of his premier disciples. Read more

Listen to an inspiring piece of broadcasting history as Mother announces the inauguration of Auroville live across India on 28 February 1968. The recording was made with Mother sitting in Pondicherry while 5000 founding members of Auroville conducted the inauguration ceremony nearby at the Matrimandir Amphitheater. Thanks to All India Radio, her reading of the original Charter of Auroville in French was broadcast live to the amphitheater, as well as across India, while soil representing 124 nations and 23 Indian states was placed in the ground. Read more

Two hours of pure energy at the last concert of the Temple Rock! Performed in Kalabhumi. past Friday 8th of February, and it was very well attended. The audience have really enjoined the fusion of Carnatic ragas inspired by western rock, jazz and funk remembrances. Vocals and Kanjira - Krishna Kumar. Keyboards - Aman Mahajan. Electric Guitar - Jay Sithar. Tavil - Sowri Rajan. Saxophone - Matt Littlewood. Bass - Mishko M ba. A mature band with great musicians. Read more

Even thought Krishna was the organizer of the LUYE 2013 festival he still had time to play in the band. Emergence is an Indo-acoustic pop band playing harmonic textures of guitar and powerful lyrics blend with melodies played on violin. This, backed by the expressive grooves of rock, funk and ethnic rhythms and an explosive style of fretless and six-string bass is the unique fusion that is Emergence. The band has released albums "Here I Am" and "Chosen By God". Read more

Yemadas a band that needs no introduction here in Auroville. Yemadas is a ethnic fusion band who plays their original songs inspired in Africa and Brazil traditional songs. Mixed with different instruments and beautiful and philosophical lyrics takes people in a deep journey to our roots, looking for a strong connection with our hearts. Healing trough music is one of the aspects of Yemadas performances. The interaction with the audience and everybody singing and dancing along is another aspect of their performances. Read more

Five musicians with international background come together and create a music which takes its roots from traditional carnatic compositions, and sets them within a new frame. Hailing from a traditional musical family, Krishna Kumar has found with Temple Rock, a playground to his size and playmates to have fun with. Temple Rock is a delight for the ears and the eyes for its dynamism and poetry. A unique style in the field of world music. Read more

The last band of the festival and for sure one of the Blues Conscience. They closed down the festival with some great blues grooves and got some tired feet on the dance floor again. Blues Conscience was started in 2008 to promote the blues in today's rock and metal influenced live music culture. As a band, our roots go deep into some of the greats that have played the blues, such as Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters. -- www.bluesconscience.com/ ------- https://www.facebook.com/bluesconscience Read more

From Germany to L.A to India Ed DeGenaro, brings with him a unique take on music which has been collectively called the “Nude Guitar Sound”. This radical sound comprises of bebop, metal and Indian sounds. Ed has collaborated with international musicians like Elliott Sharp, Steve Kimmock and the David Byron Band as well as Indian artists like Ghatam Karthik and Ujjayinee Roy. His ensemble features himself on Guitar, Ujjayinee Roy on Vocals, Shyam Rao on Drums, Wayne Fernandez on Bass and Anthony Karuna on Keyboards. Read more

In past year we finally had a chance to hear some of the Slavic folk songs through engagement of Shakti and Vera...Lively Up Your Earth 20123 - eco music festival also gave us the opportunity to listen to some of the Ukrainian folk songs, sung by Shakti and Vera, accompanied by guitars, violin and xylophone. Simple, but sweet and soft , melodic songs about nature, love, life have created special atmosphere on the stage at Solitude Farm Read more

Blues Conscience was started in 2008, for the sole purpose to promote the blues in today’s rock and metal influenced live music culture. Their music is an eclectic mix of Rock N' Roll, Grunge, Funk and Blues, thus, the non-conformity to stick to a particular genre. The members draw their influences from numerous acts, which only adds to versatility of Grey Shack's music. https/www.facebook.com/greyshack ----- www.myspace.com/greyshack Read more

A truly inspiring Sunday morning! More than 3000 people gathered at dawn at the Visitor Centre to participate to the 6th Auroville's marathon to run over the path and paved roads of Auroville. The most common word I've heard it's "awesome"... Believe me this interviews are barely edited and what it comes out is that the runners were just so happy! A very well organized event by the marathon team. Listen the voices of the runners about what they got from the experience of running in Auroville.

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Auroville Marathon 2013 - Run for the joy of Running. The sixth edition of the Auroville Marathon will be held on February 10, 2013. This year, we'll have over 3000 participants from Auroville, the neighboring villages, Sri Aurobindo Ashram and from other cities in India as well as outside India. The Marathon will start and finish at Auroville Visitor’s Centre. Listen to the interviews with the organizing team members Chandresh Patel and Balaji. Please click here to download a document with information about the event. Read more

It was still hot in the afternoon at Solitude Farm. The sound engineers and volunteer team were working hard on tuning all the gear on the stage to provide the best sound possible. Anna Taj with the band has hit the stage with some powerful rock tunes, and shaken the audience out of mellow mood of previous acoustic experience. Anna and band have managed, despite some technical difficulties (and which bigger event hasn't got them?), to share with the community also some new songs, just recently published on the new CD. Read more

Sweet warm January's day, Solitude farm with Lively Up Your Earth 2013 eco music festival crowd, just around noon when Suryan started with the musical part of the festival. His acoustic soulful solo slowly warmed up the gathering audience. For few last songs Danny, talented youngster has joined him on the stage. This year LUYE was far the best organized, with numerous participants, lots of stalls focus on ecology, recycling and renewable energy, huge crew of volunteers which has started with preparations months before the day. Read more

No doubt that the peak of the season is beside other marked by many events of which this weekend we got three major ones going - Lively Up Your Earth , eco music festival on Saturday at Solitude Farm, Auroville Ultimate Frisbee Hat Tournament at Certitude, Udavi, Aurodam and Tibetan Pavilion, and South Indian Equestrian Championship at Red Earth Riding School. Tomorrow Isis, volunteer from Benin will share some historical facts on West Africa, along with the food and music followed at African Night at Unity Pavilion in International Zone Read more

In today's news we feature Agnes talking about preparations for Lively Up Your Earth (LUYE)- eco music festival which will happen on next Saturday 2nd of February at Solitude farm. Bharat Nivas Group invites the community to gather at 8.30am at Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture in International Zone where they will share flag-hoisting, National Anthem and sharing of Prasad in order to celebrate the Republic Day of india. On that day also Aikiyam School will share cultural program with an open exhibition. Live music on 27th at CRIPA. Read more

To close the New Moon night, Yemadas and Friends produced some nice percussion beats to keep the people of Auroville moving. Yemadas is a ethnic fusion band who plays their original songs inspired in Africa and Brazil traditional songs. Mixed with different instruments and beautiful and philosophical lyrics takes people in a deep journey to our roots, looking for a strong connection with our hearts. Though there where some power issues that did not stop the music from flowing and the dance floor from moving. Thanks guys and also to the guest Read more

Unity Pavilion invites us on Thursday at 5pm at Peace Table to join a special Meditation for Peace and Healing, focusing on the very important problem of violence against women here in India and all around the world. On 19th, 20th and 21st at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of indian Culture in International Zone at 7pm they will present tragedy The Play Rodongue. On Saturday at 8pm at Kalabhumi the students of the apprenticeship program Lillith would like to invite us for a Fashion Show. The show will present a Fashion Masala. Read more

Renowned Dhrupad Singer Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar represents the twentieth unbroken generation of musicians of the Dagar family. He is the nephew and son of Dagar Brothers (Ud. N.Zahiruddin & Ud. N.Faiyazuddin). He brought Dhrupad to the world music scene with his CD recorded for UNESCO, that is considering including Dhrupad in the list of World Intangible Heritage. He has performed at several prestigious venues around the world. President of the Dhrupad Society, he is dedicated to preserving Dhrupad in its purity. Read more

In today's news we feature interview with Werner Sasse wo will give a lecture today at Unity Pavilion in International Zone on Korean culture. The lecture will be followed by performance (Dance and Authentic Korean Martial Art-Dance,Taekkyon) and workshop on caligraphy, and the event is organized by residents of Korean and Korean Pavilion. On Saturday at the Unity Pavilion in International Zone from 9am to 4pm THE UNITY PAVILION, CIRHU and THEIR GUEST ...  JEAN FRANCOIS NOUBEL... invites us to a "collective intelligence day". Read more

Governing Board member Mallika Sarabhai's reflections on Auroville's strong sense of design, aesthetics and sustainability and the potential Auroville has as a knowledge base that can role model and inform policy in India and abroad. Mallika also shares her concerns about design and material choice in recent housing developments and thoughts for the next Governing board formation. In conversation with Bridget at the Auroville Festival in Delhi in Sept 2012. Read more

Tonight at 7pm at Pavilion of Tibetan Culture in International Zone is A Prayer for Unity. Together we will experience lighting of Lamps followed by a Meditation evoking Respect Love Peace and Unity. AT Matrimandir there will be The Banyan Tree lit up for silence and meditation tonight from 6 pm to 9 pm. Midnight meditation for Aurovilians: the Inner Chamber from 10.30 pm to 12.15 am. Tomorrow at Matrimandir Amphitheater at 5 pm will be a musical offering with the Russian Singing Bells "EMERGING INTO LIGHT". Happy New Year from AVRadio! Read more

Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies.. India and the World today and tomorrow is hosting Dr. Bahman Shirazi, Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco who will held workshop on Integral Consciousness at White Hall at Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture in International Zone. For the end of the cycle of recycling events Phoenix project for CCC(Community Cultural Colors) invites us to Kalabhumi on Saturday 29th at 7pm to a Cosmic Fusion. AVCRT is organizing a gathering on Saturday at 10am at Town Hall. Read more

At Bla Bla Xmas Fair at Youth Center was still hot, and action in full swing when Anna hit the stage with ethnic songs, accompanied by Rolf and Johnatan. Not many words but couple of action oriented ethnic music, not so very well know to the joyful audience, but well appreciated anyhow. And what is Christmas if it is not for joyful sharing amongst each other, for sharing the festive spirit in light and love?

 

 

Blues was on the stage at Bla Bla Xmas Fair at Youth Center with Swaha and Rolf, swinging us into more mellow mood. And the temperatures were already droping a bit, bargains were almost done, children were exhausted of all the fun, the gadgets they have visited, actions they have participade in... after solid portion of blues annoucnments and callings for dinner were out, and the youngest started to depart from the site, and whole Fair was slowly shifting in to the evening tone and set of action painted in music.