Mahesh Kale
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Famend Hindustani vocalist Mahesh Kale is about to current an Abhangwari live performance in Hyderabad. In Marathi language, Abhang means ‘unhindered’ and Wari means pilgrimage, says the San Francisco-based singer and guru over a telephonic interplay. He’s presently on a pan-India tour with concert events in Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
Music that connects
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Mahesh Kale’s ‘‘Abhangwari’ is an annual present conceptualised to current the abhang style, devoted to Lord Vitthal, and musically depict the annual go to of hundreds of pilgrims to Pandharpur in Maharashtra, on Ashadhi Ekadashi day. The Hyderabad version, the third on this 12 months’s pan-India tour to popularise abhangs will function an audio-visual presentation of the standard practices related to the pilgrimage, with renditions of his abhang compositions and some of his guru, famend Pt Jitendra Abhisheki. “This isn’t only a live performance, it’s a well-planned manufacturing with a rigorously written narrative and visible attraction.”
Musical pilgrimage
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Singing abhangs is important throughout the season as small teams of pilgrims throughout Maharashtra and Karnataka journey on foot, carrying a palki (palanquin), to Pandharpur, the abode of Lord Vithal. This sacred journey, he says, begins 22 days earlier than Ashada Ekadashi. “These palkis merge at a pit cease earlier than Pandharpur. Those that can not stroll the whole distance, stroll for a brief distance, and those that can not stroll in any respect, attempt to cook dinner and feed the pilgrims, as a service to the Lord,” says Mahesh, who needs to seize this enthusiasm with artwork and likewise current it to people who find themselves unable to do the ‘wari’. He hopes, “It will give them a way of happening a musical pilgrimage.”
It has been a busy week (“Music provides the power to journey”) ever since he landed in India. He first went to Phalton in Pandharpur to hunt the blessings of Panduranga earlier than beginning the tour. Whereas the singer has composed a number of Marathi songs, Abhangwari (additionally the identify of the live performance) marks his debut as a author. “I wished Lord Vithal to hearken to it earlier than the remainder of India.”
Mahesh Kale
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For somebody who follows an natural and spontaneous method, does his music change in line with the town and its viewers? “Once I get on stage, I first greet the viewers and, like a physician, gauge the heartbeat. I feel I’m in a position to diagnose nicely and make an influence with music. The viewers could also be numerous, however everybody involves hearken to music. So there’s a widespread denomination throughout the auditorium.”
His craft through the years had been ‘fortified’ as music is way more than what meets the attention. “The efficiency is just the tip of an iceberg. Creating, elevating, and sustaining an curiosity in music can not occur solely with concert events; that’s why I’m deeply captivated with educating,” says Mahesh who teaches for round 10 to 12 hours per week.
Educating music to lovers in virtually 15 nations can be a part of a reform, an try to create listeners throughout the globe. “Each time my fellow musician mates journey, they’re met with an enthusiastic and educated viewers.
A Nationwide Award winner for a Marathi movie in 2015 and likewise a recipient of the latest Bala Gandharva Gun Gaurav Award 2024, Mahesh says, “The thought of Abhangwari is to depict the philosophy written in Marathi with a common attraction. I sit up for performing to totally different audiences in Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. I’ve been met with a whole lot of love throughout my earlier journeys. I’m again to return the love and acquire some extra.”
Mahesh Kale’s Abhangwari live performance at Ravindra Bharathi on July 19, 7pm onwards is introduced by Tatvaa Arts, Hyderabad, underneath the sequence of Aashad Lahari, 2nd Version. The tour then strikes to Chennai (July 20) and Bengaluru (July 21).
