Music-on-the-street: the madness has begun!
the first of the series of 6 sundays of went off really well you guys! lots of very, very happy crowd and truck loads of enthu. the music boys were amazing!!
mesha and i started off around 2pm by looking at the street. it was hot, we were trying to figure out which spot to pick to have the SOF act. finally we chose a little patch of pavement just outside of Mota Arcade on Brigade Road and started to put up the banner.
3:45 and we were set. the instruments were on the street. the banners were up. the passers-by were getting curious...we even got a few thinking we were hawking the instruments!
4pm and on the dot - abhi walked over to the mat, picked up a guitar and began strumming. almost immediately the rest of the lounge piranha boys - george, kamal, rohan and prevez got into the scene. passers-by were pausing. some more music enthusiasts - anandan, natraj, micheal, montrey, pavan and a few others walked onto the mat, picked up their instruments and pretty soon a full on jam with djembes, dijareedoos, dhols and guitars kicked in.
It was SUPERRRRR! half an hour of the best kind of madness. and yep we got in a huge crowd of people who were pretty happy to be there.
So who is up for the next one? Any guesses on what its going to be all about? find out i say, find out...
posted by Archana Prasad at 9:21 AM
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Hey yo. Is there anywhere I can mail you at? I am a hand percussion enthusiast (fancy name for a wannabe drummer), looking for people to jam with. Recently came back to Bangalore. Would love to get involved in any projects where I can make loud noise...;) Could you drop me a mail as to how I can get in touch with you guys (shiva.0@gmail.com)
~iNi
hey shiva,
welcome back to blore. as of now SOFTact doesn't have a noticeboard area to put up posts like what you'd like. in the future though, if more such queries come our way, we'll be happy to build that in. also another great way for artists to meet each other is to come to the SOFTact-on-the-street :) of course...
Hi Archana,
Was looking more at participating than posting! Neways, you have my email, and if you feel you can use an extra djembe, balafon or bongoes, for some musical mischief, or even just an extra pair of hands, drop me a mail. Irrespective of that, I'll def be lounging around at your next gig...:)
Cheers
Hey Shiva, great to have you on board. come off on sunday at 3:30pm - we'd love any help setting up the scene. we can chat, post the act, about any musicky ideas you might have to take the SOFTact higher and higher. :)
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