About The Event
Aikya Mumbai, as part of TM Krishna's Mumbai tour, Karnatic Modern, marks the first concert in Mumbai featuring the Jogappas, a transgender musical community from North Karnataka, South Maharashtra and parts of Telangana who traditionally sing folk devotional songs in praise of the Goddess Yellamma. They will be drawing from their vast repertoire of songs in Kannada and Marathi together with Karnatic musician TM Krishna and his co-musicians in a unique and exciting musical collaboration that brings together two very different traditions on the same stage. The Jogappas have an unselfconscious earthiness and abandon in their singing and their music has elements of bhajans and namasankeertanam traditions with lyrics and motifs being repeated. The Jogappas, who traditionally sing to the suthi, an ektara-like instrument, the chowdki, a percussive instrument, and the tala, are thrilled to have the mridangam, ghatam and violin which accompany a Carnatic classical concert.
This concert is a conversation between musicians in which all social equations are set aside for a meaningful collaboration driven by a desire to find a meeting ground and experience the joy of communicating as equals through music.
This initiative originated last year thanks to the efforts of the Bangalore-based NGO, Solidarity Foundation which works to foreground the issues faced by the transgender communities in the social and cultural hierarchies in India today.
This concert is a conversation between musicians in which all social equations are set aside for a meaningful collaboration driven by a desire to find a meeting ground and experience the joy of communicating as equals through music.
This initiative originated last year thanks to the efforts of the Bangalore-based NGO, Solidarity Foundation which works to foreground the issues faced by the transgender communities in the social and cultural hierarchies in India today.
