Bombay Jayashree@Esplanade,Singapore

Carnatic music lovers in Singapore were treated to a wonderful performance by Bombay Jayashree last sunday. Aided by a great voice, Jayashree used her vivid imagination for raaga alapanas delighting the audience. Thodi & Reethigowla were sung beautifully. The short peices after RTP , were memorable too , in particular the Meera Bhajan "Hari Tum" .

Here is a list of the Songs Sung (from whatever I noted down):

1. Mayamalavagowlai raaga
2. Seethapathe ( Raagam : Khamas , Composer : Tyagaraja)
3. Janani Ninnuvina (Raagam : Reethigowla , Composer : Subbaraya Sastry)
4. Amba Neelayadakshi (Raagam : Neelambari, Composer : Muthuswamy Dikshitar)
5. Karthikeya Kangeya ( Raagam : Thodi , Composer : Papanasam Sivan)
6. Ranjani Niranjani ( Raagam : Ranjani , Composer : GNB)
7. Srilalithe Mampahi ( It sounded like Anandabhairavi to me ...Not sure about the raaga..it later became a ragamalika with Mohanam and few other raagas..any guesses ?)
8. Velane Sivabalane ( Raagam : Behag , Composer : Neela Ramamurthy)
9. Hari Tum ( Raagam : Darbari Kaanada , Composer : Meera)
10. Tillana ( Raagam : Desh , Composer : Lalgudi Jayaraman)
11. Pavamana Suthudu ( Raagam : Sowrashtram , Composer : Tyagaraja)

P.S : A matter of personal pride for me was that I was able to identify most of the raagas immediately in the first one minute of singing. Last 2 years of listening to carnatic music regularly has started paying dividends !