The backpack artistes must be a familiar sight to many. The sort who troop into a concert venue in kurtas and loose trousers/veshtis, have a backpack slung over their shoulders and if they are instrumentalist, the violin packed in a smart case.
They are at ease on all platforms.
We bumped into a young man who has been seen quite often now in Bangalore's kutcheri circuit - Ramana Balachandhran.
He can sing and play the veena and the mirdangam. So his multi-talents gets him to the centre or on the side depending on what the call is for!
Ramana had just finished a concert at the Seshadripuram College venue for the local mandali. He played the mirdangam.
He is not so sure he will go on to choose playing the veena in the late future, the tells us even though it will give him centre stage.
We wonder if it is because the veena still gets less space on stage.
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