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A Letter to NRI musicians and dancersHamsadhwani extends its warm greetings to NRI musicians and patrons of our Carnatic system. Hamsadhwani will hold its ninth NRI annual festival of music and dance concerts (two a day) from December 15 lasting till December 31, 2003. We held only music recitals till 2001. Later, taking advantage of the excellent permanent stage that has been built, we introduced around 10 dance performances as well last December (2002), in response to persistent requests from NRI dancers all these years. Beginning with 4 concerts eight years ago, the programme has swelled to 40. This series is most expensive to us as we meet the costs entirely from our own resources. We get no sponsorship support whatever for NRI festival. We do not mind the financial burden because we offer happiness to you NRIs, who work hard on your music/dance amidst the job pressures abroad. We appreciate that you spend enormous amounts of money to come to India and the least we can do is to provide you a platform. The only thing we expect of you is that you become a patron member (a one-time payment obviously). Our experience is that NRI musicians abroad respond to our request with pleasure. Our remunerations are on par with what we do for our Indian artistes here. The festival has brought us immense satisfaction and earned us a distinctive reputation here in India and abroad as well. We appeal to NRIs who are already planning to visit Chennai during this December, 2003, to communicate to us the duration of your stay here and the days you are available so that we can schedule your programme. Artistes of merit, who have not performed in our series so far, are also welcome to respond, enclosing their biodata. This appeal extends to NRI dancers as well. Kindly respond either by email or phone by August 31, 2003. Since NRI concerts keep expanding every year, we wish to open a separate corpus named NRI Corpus Fund to take care of funding. It will be used solely to promote NRI artistes’ performances. Another suggestion mooted last year is to start a Hamsadhwani NRI friends club. Your reaction to this is most welcome. Another request to you is made hereby to use your good offices with your NRI relatives and friends to contribute to such a fund apart from yours so that self sufficiency in organizing an NRI festival of music and dance on a larger scale is attained. This will also offer you a platform as and when you visit Chennai even during other months of the year. Kindly note the following contact, email and fax numbers:
Awaiting your positive and early response, Copy to R Ramachandran, Secretary, Hamsadhwani |
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