MERU Concert Live - Sakhi - A Kaushiki Chakrabarty Ensemble

Performing artists: from R to L - Nandini Shankar (violin), Kaushiki Chakrabarty (vocal), Debopriya Chatterjee (flute), Bhakti Deshpande (dance), Mahima Upadhyay (pakhavaj), Savani Talwalkar (tabla)
An inspired initiative created by the visionary Kaushiki Chakarbarty. She is the leading female vocalist in Indian classical music. Kaushiki has brought together India’s first ever all-ladies ensemble and harnesses the creative energies of contemporary India’s best young talents representing all streams of the Vedic heritage of Indian classical art.
This MERU Concert was held on 1st August 2015 at Theater Oranjerie in Roermond, The Netherlands.
Here is a stunning depiction of a piece 'Hansini' from Sakhi. Accompanying Kaushiki are,
Debopriya Chatterjee, flautist - she studied under legendary flautist Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. She is one of the very few performing women flautists in Indian Classical Music
Nandini Shankar, violinist - a very talented and amazing violinist, a born musician. She is trained under her illustrious grandmother Padma Bhushan Dr. N Rajam and her exemplary mother Dr. Sangeeta Shankar.
Bhakti Deshpande, Kathak dancer - she began her artistic journey at an early age under her parents and gurus. She is also blessed to have been training under Padma Vibhushan Pandit Birju Maharaj and Padma Shri Suresh Talwalkar since the age of 12.
Savani Talwalkar, tabla percussionist - she studied classical music and tabla from her legendary father, a tabla maestro Padma Shri Suresh Talwalkar as well her mother Padma Talwalkar, a well-known classical vocalist.
Mahima Upadhyay, Pakhawaj percussionist - fondly known as ‘The Pakhawaj Princess’, she carries a 400 year old legacy of unbroken Pakhawaj family tradition. Mahima has received training under her father, the great Pakhawaj Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar Upadhyay.

[@ppalutube]

As parent to a little girl, this is the best guide book I ever saw on 'how to raise our daughters'

[@fernandofernandez3022]

They deserve a standing ovation for half an hour 😎

[@ashuaryan298]

Make it one hour please😍

[@sergiochavez6141]

Thank you mother India for another marvellous gift. Oh sweet Bharat l love you and admire you with all my heart and soul. Love from Mexico. 🌺💜🌺

[@snegi5699]

Thank u so much for your kind words 🙏

[@BabuKhan-qq8om]

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[@pralhadharibal6443]

this is a classic example of MAHILA SHAKTI. and INDIAS unity in diversity a very good example. all old moghal ustads are meade to sit in home, new generation has taken over. Blessing by SARASWATI. Age old our history is repeating. keep it up.

[@dvchauhan35]

Kaushiki, the desciple of Pt Ajoy Chakraborty. Nandini, the desciple of Vidushi Dr. N. Rajam. Debopriya, the desciple of Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. It's always a pleasure to see them all together.

[@HARSHVARDHANSINGH-yr3ds]

Bhakti deshpande of pandit birju maharaj i guess.

[@dvchauhan35]

@@HARSHVARDHANSINGH-yr3ds Yes, She is.

[@subratsarkar5526]

@@HARSHVARDHANSINGH-yr3ds Bhakti ji is first disciple of her mother VidyaHari Deshpande ji

[@user-fr6if8om3f]

Very good

[@Prasanta1948]

we just had them in tonight in n Chicago durga puja Mesmerizing concert with dance, Pakhwaz, tabla violin and flute and rendition of vocal performance, audience was awed by their creativity and rendition one after another. brilliant young talents, could not take our eyes or mind for one second, they were so engaging. best of luck and hope your SaKhi group touches the sky in a short time.

[@easwarsankar]

Raag Hamsadhwani - a beautiful coming together of Hindustani and Carnatic traditions! Wonderful rendition indeed

[@fernandofernandez1873]

The ending was just an epic..... My God... What a rendition... Each and every one is going to be a legend...

[@tapomitaghosh]

indeed a wonderful group!! I think the name superwomen suits them the best!!

[@swatibhattacharjee493]

correct

[@MoumantiPodder]

The powerpuff girls of Indian classical music :-)

[@indubala3155]

Superwomen indeed. May cause revolution round the globle. In addition, they do Durga Pooja also. Very virtuous ladies indeed. May god save them from evil eyes and negative forces so powetful in these days. Modern civilization is breathing very hard. It is unable to face so much purity of thought and art. It is just speechless.

[@climbeverest]

Magic Women

[@alurnataraj2919]

What a talented young group of musicians and led by Smt.Kuashiki and the music is superb. Congratulations

[@shantiglam]

GIRL POWER !!!!! so amazing to see beautiful intelligent women performing and excelling in their field !!!

[@nyomanartana5255]

wow the last note give me tears... thank you for indian music

[@nitinvirkar4031]

Exactly same with me, don't know when moist eyes filled & flows with tears.

[@parthadutta4714]

superlative rendition ! A divine atmosphere is created.

[@kamalakarsalgaonkar4066]

I saw this program first time ,And totally impressed with all participants. three cheers & congratulation to them.

[@rajendraparanjape5436]

A big big salute to all six melody queens of the concert. Just an amazing & wonderful experience. God bless them all.

[@RB_Musik]

This is nothing less than magic. Literally magic.

[@parmeetkalra6378]

Way to go!!. Kaushiki & co - you have done it again ...created a masterpiece. Lovely colours

[@vimalkantdave1060]

Just pure magic 🙏👍

[@pradipdas5020]

All girls presanted mind blowing performance 👌

[@sairatnaravindra3754]

No words to praise this Sakhi team. What a team work and co-ordination......... Great synchro

[@shjakes]

"SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES!" ...I was pleasantly surprised and truly enjoyed this hypnotic performance. Women are capable of producing complex rhythms too...

[@shreepadgokhale5373]

You listen every time, you find out different than earlier, superb short journey of SaptaSwaras

[@JoySangeetam]

Wonderful Performance by Sakhi...Pride of India.

[@Shakir-rh8cu]

Love the program and the speciality is every participant is the woman, beautiful.

[@mukundadevsahoo]

Very nice intensive Congratulations Koushiki ji and team

[@MrAbbas5]

Masters at work. Long live our music of life .

[@aparupduke]

Such talented beautiful women!... This is true beauty ...

[@dididumbo]

Poetry in motion and what an ensemble / collage just wow

[@prakashshenoy5300]

superb Madam Kaushiki has given a platform to perform by the young talents what a coordination of all the artist awsome. thank u fr the vidio

[@sunitanadkarni5162]

A super-talented ensemble of women artistes!

[@sadhnamenon4841]

Vow Vow! What an ensemble of our rich Indian heritage!

[@jaydevvarma9757]

Divine Feminine! Nari Shakti! exquisite! Phenomenal!🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉

[@mangaltripathi03]

The Indian Classical Beauties....amazing performance......

[@alainPaul34]

Oh my God ........AMAZING AMAZING thank you for sharing

[@sankaranarayanan5332]

How Philharmonic! By and By This Saki of Kaushiki ji shall make Vienna in Calcutta. Like B-s they all work in orchestration complete, with implicit understanding. Footwork to Handiwork to Voice and Violin All are in All. Goddess grace . May these Bees hum and drum to redress the humdrum world. After Bach Beethoven Brams Wagner may the world hope to see a Sakthi on the rise in Music!

[@deependraneupane3182]

really, really, really wonderful.

[@satyamagrawalflutist7078]

This is the best initiative....we love this Classical Band ...🙏🙏😌😌

[@rishi.girdhar]

Superb , Fantastic. Good to see all female sakhis.

[@manasjana4589]

Incredible combination of talents and a music full of joy

[@ricardojmalbran7539]

thank you, thank you, thank you !!!!!

[@iwakeyou]

I can keep listening to this beautiful ensemble.... thank you so much... lots of love!

[@ibreddy2129]

This true indian for us which was hidden for years proud to be born in this bharth it itself is mukti for me.

[@daverobert8681]

Beautiful talented team, all the best to you guys

[@dr.madhuparnabhattacharjee6536]

Incredible Indian women n our cultural heritage.

[@rabindrakamilya189]

I didn't watch such performances in my life God bless all of you 🙏🙏🙏

[@kidsdrd]

Every father-mother-brother-sister of India/Bharat should be proud of these beautiful and talented group of ladies

[@manjushrigupta]

Its really a treat to eyes, ears and soul .... just wonderful !

[@tapankantinath5316]

THANKS TO NARI SHAKTI Nice presentation 👍

[@sohinibanerjee6162]

These women!!! *bows down* ❤❤

[@satyasrinivas1559]

This concert is an example of what women alone can do and the importance of women power

[@satyanarayanatamvada5338]

Very unique in composition, Galaxy of stars, true disciples of their masters, torch bearers to next generations!

[@zzzlife]

So incredibly beautiful :)

[@pronnatitiwari9157]

God bless you all and concept of our talented Kaushiki ji 😍😅🤩🙌👏👏👏

[@sreelachatterjee1798]

Bismoye,anonde bakyohaara .Iswarer onoto aashirbaad, onaader opore borshito hok 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@dikshabhardwaj9948]

That's why she is called ......THE UNBELIEVABLE KAUSHIKI CHAKRABORTY🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@tariqulislam4704]

wow. its so nice, very joyful to watch.

[@betianailjuszyk6360]

Que hermoso!!!! hermoso!!!!

[@dksaxophone6352]

Goddess of classical...

[@dightall]

Outstanding performance by Kaushiki and her scholar team. Congrats.

[@karthikeyansundararajan2391]

Bhakti Deshpande dance awesome among the music of the greats saraswatis

[@dhruvraina2996]

This is the memorable concert which shows the talent of womens THANKS alll

[@ivarhakuse8572]

Well planned, structured, coordinated and presented. There was a great synthesis of not only vocal, instrumental and dance elements but also in north and South Indian elements. Therefore this was a success in displaying the majesty of our classical traditions. Which makes one wonder how many urban Naxals were sitting watching and internally sneering at this event.

[@shreesh60]

नृत्य, बांसरी, व्हॉयलिन, मृदंग, तबला आणि कौशिकीचे व्होकल ..!! १७ मिनिटांचा एक नितांत सुंदर अनुभव ..!!

[@sirurg]

Great music and dance from a talented ensemble. Nice effort but I found some major problems - not with the artistes but with the sound mixing and camera work. The sound mixer does not highlight the percussion at all. It is obvious with the tabla and pakhawaj where both players are trying to play harder to get a clearer sound. In fact , only when Savani Talwalkar recites the dance bol, does the sound get enhanced! Similar problem with the pakhawaj. When Mahima Upadhyay plays, the resonance of the pakhawaj does not show through at all. Also the camera is more often focussed on Kaushiki Chakraborty or Debopriya Chatterjee or Nandini Shankar when the percussionists were playing some really good bits. The only time there was some camera coordination was when it switched between the dancer and the percussionist.

[@prabhakarsawant1487]

भारत माता की जय । भारत माता को शत शत नमन ऐसे महान कलाकार हमारे देश में जन्में हमारे संस्कृति को बचाने के लिए । कौशीकी मौसी को बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद । आप मेरी इंस्पिरेशन है वोकलिस्ट बनने के लिए

[@sairatnaravindra3754]

Great performance by all SAKHIs. Each artist has given 100%. Full marks........>

[@Surnad59]

Really a great group, wonderful performance. Wish more and more young female artists join this group.

[@kumarasamypinnapala7848]

Excellent performance Koushik Beti congratulations to you all God bless you all long live 👏👏👏😍💯👏👏👏👍👌👏😍💯👏👏😍👍👌

[@ajayjangir796]

Wonderful team Kaushik ji .

[@mandarkhardenavis857]

Very beautiful......Hansdhwani is such a divine raga.....😌😌👌👌🎵🎵

[@dilipkumarsen2659]

Incredible Indian Culture

[@rashmishikhare2762]

Class concert!Very sweet voice of Kaushiki!A1 ferformance of all!

[@ratan012]

Awesome ladies. Jai Mata Di.

[@milanmaheshwari]

Inke samne pure duniya ki military hathiyar dal degi... bravo is not enough... absolutely killers..divine performance.. and beauties with killer musical marvel..

[@nareshrastogi2397]

Amazing ensemble.

[@KiranThakur-qz5dz]

Best Ever I heared...

[@anilnirodi4667]

God given gift of incredible musical talent.

[@parthadutta4714]

Absolutely wonderful and the rendition leaves me speechless

[@ariyawansharathnayaka2242]

I am following you in u tube since I was in grade 09 thank you teacher for your guidance

[@rashikworldr4445]

Waaaaaowww .... Superb combination... !

[@shardashukla557]

वाह, सिर्फ एक शब्द काफी है।

[@amrapaliagrawal012]

add Sitar in this beautiful group

[@dvchauhan35]

I was thinking the same, if Anoushka Shankar or Roopa Panesar joins them.

[@sandeshwarang4830]

@@dvchauhan35 i agree with u both are best in sitar....

[@shibashismukherjee4426]

Why suddenly sitar? Why not say sarod? Baseless suggestion...

[@kshamarajesh6678]

Fantastic performance.

[@dayanandkhasdev323]

Amazing ,out of this world. A full filing experience.

[@surajdas5604]

Bahut sunder aap sabhi sakhiyna maa sarda ka hi rup ho mera namaskaar

[@mrunalharip450]

Magic of music..wonderful 🙏

[@peeyushlala6698]

It is beautiful ensamble--highly creative and well-coordinated Peeyush Lala

[@NarinderSingh-fl4py]

V.good Kaushiki Chakraborti TEAM.

[@somnathdey6917]

Awesome👍 bharatmata ke veer betiyon joy hind bondematarom🙏

[@harshabiliangady3211]

Just too good.

[@nileshmazumder3819]

At last the wait is over! Felling blessed.......All the best SAKHI!

[@HakunaMatata-ho3mk]

This was beautiful ❤️ Can anyone tell what raaga it is? Thanks

[@AbhishekSamal]

Wonderful! Doesn't it sound incomplete? No one seems to miss the sound of tanpura!

[@indianmusicfan4901]

They had the Shruti Box on for the whole time. With the Shruti Box, you actually don't need the Taanpuraa.

[@meeravenkatesh1943]

Aadil Ayub is

[@anaghawad4177]

Mesmerizing!!!

[@Neermalamuu]

Wow, wow! Super duper! What a nice performance bu beautiful young women.

[@rajeshsarjoshi2480]

I heard saptadurgas and I have seen and shatdurgas today. Mesmerized

[@jayantibhattacharyya8992]

am spellbound.....the total composition is excellent..........

[@tanmaysarkar8591]

Excellent

[@kidsdrd]

Has any one been working with world tour for this group?...will be best seller...add few different dance groups(Bharat Natyam -Odisi ,etc)...more Katthhak dancers coming in from different sides of stage,with back ground photoes of various types of Bharatiya women....K ji or any one else ,please take this idea to K-Ji...Kaushiki is the ultimate a classical Lady Bharatiya singer can be-beautiful,humble and supremely talented....

[@pbphanindar1201]

SIMPLY AWESOME...p b phanindar Hyderabad