Aruna Sairam (Carnatic Vocal) at the Darbar Festival 2009

Aruna Sairam (Carnatic Vocal) with Jyotsna Shrikant (violin), Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam), RN Prakash (ghatam) and Priya Parkash (tanpura) Aruna Sairam is one of the best voices to emerge from the Carnatic tradition of southern India an this concert presents a rich repertoire of beautiful and rare classical compositions as well as lighter folk forms and melodies. Darbar Festival 2009 Described by one artist as the G20 summit of Indian music and by World Music magazine Songlines as surely Britains best festival of south Asian music, the Darbar Festival is says arts journalist, Jameela Siddiqui a place where everyone expects and gets the highest quality performances of Indian classical music. Indian classical music is arguably one of the most complex and complete systems of music ever developed. What began as Vedic chants several thousand years ago developed into a sophisticated musical system by the 3rd century. The music is based on a single melody line, which is played over