we have moved recently to u.s. (CA). We miss the carnatic part of india very much. If you know any music associations in CA o rany websites which could give us details about carnatic music in CA, could you kindly let us know.

We Browsed a lot to find one, but failed..

would appreciate any help from you.

we live near san jose.

thanks bala.

-- balakrishnan chandrasekaran (balabama@hotmail.com), June 18, 2000

Answers

I am not sure if you have managed to find info about Carnatic music activity in and around san Jose. Check out www.southindiafinearts.org for upcoming concerts. This area has a lot of carnatic concerts, sometimes all on the same day. Regards, sridevi

-- Sridevi Iyengar (sridevi_iyengar@yahoo.com), September 19, 2000.

try www.bayareatamilmandram.com

-- Padmavathy Ramnath (padma_ramnath@yahoo.com), October 09, 2000.

Hello , I'm Anil Prabhu & i own a company entitled "Dancing Dolphin" based in Central New Jersey that's in the business of distributing music for the N.American territory. I've been in the music industry for approximately 13 years in Bombay & have been in New Jersey since the last year & a half. Dancing Dolphin has exclusive contracts with approximately 20 Indian music cos prominent amongst which are reputable Indian cos such as BMG/Inreco/Geethanjali/Lahari/Sagar Sangeeth/Aditya etc & until now was only servicing wholesellers but am in the process of developing my website www.dancingdolphinmusic.com & have started servicing direct enquiries as i find that there is a genuine lack of maturity to the retail environment as regards Indian music. From the cos that i represent,quite a few are from the South & hence have an array of carnatic/devotional/sanskrit shlokas etc. I have noticed from this forum that there are quite a few queries pertaining to the non availability of carnatic titles & am willing to give it a shot in trying to obtain the same for them. Kindly revert with enquiries at aprabhu@hotmail.com my tel # is 732- 6989880. Warm regards, Anil Prabhu.

-- Anil Prabhu (aprabhu@hotmail.com), May 11, 2002.