
In Your Very Own Garden… A Glimpse Of Your Very Own Tradition… We Encouraged the Young Musicians ….
Mumbai Green Raaga was a unique initiative with couple of layers to it. First of all it encouraged young talent in the field of classical music. Secondly early in the morning in the midst of greenery of the MCGM gardens, it added a soothing, melodious feel for all those who visit these gardens daily for walks/yoga or for just being in the open air, thus giving a melodious start to the day ahead.
Not many Mumbaikars know that there are so many gardens in Mumbai. We had chosen 17 gardens from across the city. Each of these has an amphitheater too. By using these we hopefully inspired the citizens of the city as well as encouraged the young ones who despite so many other distractions pursue their training in classical music.
Our last Green Raage was held on 19th Januray 2019 to resonate with all the beautiful Ragas simultaneously… adding melody to Mumbai’s morning!
S.No. | Garden Name | Artists Names |
1 | Hanging Garden, Malabar Hill | Gandhar Bhalerao (Flute), Siddhesh Madkaikar (Tabla), Abhilash Deo (Vocal), Viraj Acharya (Tabla), Piyush Acharya (Harmonium) |
2 | TATA Garden, Breach Candy | Kiran Berdiya (Flute), Yogendra Patil (Tabla), Shripad Limbekar (Vocal), Sudhir Tekale (Harmonium), Parag Hirwe (Tabla) |
3 | St. Joseph Baptista Garden, Mazgaon | Satyendra Singh Solanki (Santoor), Sandeep Pawar (Tabla), Mahi Zaveri (Vocal), Amira Dashaputra (Vocal) |
4 | Balasaheb Thackeray Udyan, Manoranjan Maidan, Near Prakash Cotton Mill, Lower parel | Sayuri Mirgal (Vocal), Omkar Agnihotri ( Harmonium), Milind Nayak (Tabla), Unmesh Banerjee (Tabla Solo) |
5 | Adya Shankaracharya Udyan, Sir Pochkhanwala Road, Worli Police Camp | Vasanti Shrikhande (Sarangi), Gandhar jog (Tabla), Ramakant Gaikwad (Vocal), Sudhanshu Gharpure (Harmonium), Tanay Rege (Tabla) |
6 | Veer Baji Prabhu Udyan, Shivaji Park | Raj Sonar (Flute), Atharva Kulkarni (Tabla), Rameshwar Dange (Vocal), Mahesh Salunkhe (Tabla), Abhijit Joshi (Harmonium) |
7 | Bandra Fort Amphitheatre, Bandra (W) | Mugdha Gaonkar (Vocal), Kaushiki Joglekar (Harmonium), Mitali Vinchurkar (Tabla Solo) |
8 | Joggers Park, Cartar Road, Bandra (W) | Sweekar Katti (Sitar), Tarun Lala (Tabla), Kalyani Joglekar (Vocal), Vaibhav Kadam (Tabla), Dyaneshwar Sonawane (Harmonium) |
9 | Rao Saheb Patwardhan Udhyan,Linking Road, Bandra (W) | Kaivalya Raul (Sitar), Hrishikesh Parab (Tabla), Bageshree Panchale (Vocal), Girish Pathak (Tabla), Sagar Mestry (Harmonium) |
10 | Lions Juhu Children’s Municipal Park, Santacruz (W) | Suneeta Bhat (Vocal), Varsha Panwar (Harmonium), Dhaivat Mehta (Tabla), Amrita Upreti (Flute), Harsh Sagargupta (Tabla) |
11 | Kishore Kumar Park, MHADA Colony, Juhu | Nirbhay Saxena (Vocal), Purav Jagad (Harmonium), Ajinkya Galande (Tabla Solo) |
12 | Matoshri Meenatai Thackeray, Shilpagram Udyan, Jogeshwari (E) | Aditya Khandwe (Vocal), Supriya Joshi (Harmonium), pushkar joshi (Tabla), Roopak Naigaonkar (Sarod), Chintamani Warankar (Tabla) |
13 | C D Deshmukh Udyan, Mulund | Megh Kanvinde (Flute), Mrunmay Chavan (Tabla), Bhaggesh Marathe (Vocal), Tejovrush Joshi (Tabla), Siddhesh Bicholkar (Harmonium) |
14 | Mindspace Garden, Malad West | Kasturi Despande (Vocal), Vinayak Gavas (Tabla), Abhishek Kathe (Harmonium), Sarang Vechlekar (Sitar), Rupak Dhamankar (Tabla) |
15 | Swatantryaveer Savarkar Udyan, Borivali (W) | Priyaankaa Mathur (Vocal), Mansur Ali Qadri (Tabla), Haider Abbas (Harmonium), Megha Rawoot (Sitar), Anshul Pratap Singh (Tabla) |
16 | Evershine Dream Park, Kandivali (E) | Vanraj Shastri (Sarangi), Pratik Singh (Tabla), Sourabh Naik (Vocal), Sourabh Kanhekar (Harmonium), Manoj Deshmukh (Tabla) |
17 | Maruti Mandir Maidan, Aaji Aajoba Park Maruti Nagar, Dahisar (E) | Kedar Kelkar (Vocal), Prasad Kulkarni (Tabla), Sumedh Thatte (Harmonium), Kavita Lotliker (Sitar), Shriraj Tamhankar (Tabla) |