The Rain's Gone and the Jam's on! Bandra, 19th August

Great Weather, No rain, most of the gang there, great audience, great energy! Them are the keywords. It was fun to be back after missing two Sundays of the jam. We are the Jam-addicts! I have realized that the Jams are so amazingly de-stressing that for the next 2 days days at least, I feel great! the jam is great outlet for the all the stuff we go through, through the week, and a great outlet for saying your heart out..

The jam went great, with lots of participation from the people, specially a guy called Deva, who is one hell of a singer and it was great playing for him..and Another guy from Uttar Pradesh who sang a song he composed to reach out to God when his brother's son was hanging on his lifeline..Among other songs we sang Bandeh from Indian Ocean, with a nice intro..singing that songs makes me feel hell of a lot better..And I think we introduced the concept pretty well this time..that we want all of the people to forget what cars we ride, or how big a house we live in, or how many achievements we carry in our pockets..and for once just forget all the loads of gyaan and judgements we carry in our heads about others..and be one on this platform of music..

Pulin was playing with his usual finesse, Kailash with his energy, Gauri singing and cheering all the way, great jugalbandis between the three percussionists-Tarun, Kaviraj and Chintan..Danish, Khyati, Vijeeth, Bharti all there with their customary energies..And we had the honour of having 3 pro shutterbugs- Nishant, Arjun and Alok covering the jams for us.. 'And I say to myself what a wonderful world'!! Here's the picture log:

Towards a more picturesque jam: Bandra with its beauty caught by our pro shutterbug Alok.

Great Audience who does not complain and bears us and moreover participates in murdering songs with us!





'The Wind cries mary': Here we go!

Deva (Guy in center) was singing so well he made the day!

Tarun and Sanjay 'Freeze lightning'!!

Wah kya baat hai! the night matures the mehfil and fun ensues!

The 'Guitar Row': Kailash, Pulin, Vinay, Tarun. Pulin who plays amazing, likes to keep a low profile..so he gives the shutterbugs an often miss..!

Kailash, Pulin, Vinay 'Bringing it on'!

Respite! Wind up at last!

Top Row: L to R: Nishant, Chintan Vijeeth

Next to top Row: Alok, Arjun, Kailash, Danish, Kaviraj

Next: Suraj, Gauri, Pulin, Sanjay

Sitting: Khyati, Bharti (At last!)

12th Aug - When Music jams in , the spirits run wild!!!

That's what happened in the jam on 12aug, an audience full of zest and a cheering crowd which hailed us the best of spirits to make the most wonderful of jams ,graciously the rain gods favoured us too..... and the crowd expanded in numbers and so did the spirit held high!!!!

Really really cheerful audience, from all walks of society to appreciate the " spirit" which we usher in every sunday and the strength and smiles keep us going!! the song ranged from the romantic numbers to the fast approaching independence day special.. and all unity in diversity with the chant of " Vande Mataram"Mr Munish Rai, a music director himself, who was on a business trip to Mumbai dis time joined us playing showing his undaunted skills , playing his best beats!!! We had some of the Shiamak Davar group professionals, who were eager to perform but ended up singing a some of the finest tunes........... Thanks people we should be seeing more of you!!!

all to all the band and the audience mingled well too high in the spirit and the appreciation poured in too well this time!!! This was the first time i guess we had to pack off when the audience still was all willing to participate till late 9.but then again we again have to jam in next sunday with all ur best enthusiasm to back us all.... so lets pack off...

ooopssss sorry tho we cudnt catch the audience in the best of hues this time as we all had left behind the shutter bugs this time!!!!!!!!!!

--
Ar.Monika Sharma-
-Ur Smiles Count.......
'Keep Smiling'

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Well to begin i would say it was the Baap of all the jams as we had a heavy crowd (which we always wanted hahah) and were being showered with continuous requests till late 9 and the audience was unstoppable. Even it started raining lightly but we continued .

when we took of with the jam we started with fast numbers and Nupur helped a lot with singing (as Vinay and Suraj our main vocalists were not in the scene).

slowly we moved to soft numbers and monika replaced nupur, the audience participating too .

Later Mr munish Rai joined us from the audience ,helped chintan on bongo and chintan and monika were addressing the crowd about music for meaning .Amazing part was chintan was dancing on the floor.Mr Munish sang all fun songs which got in more crowd and this continued for long.

lastly we ended with slogan Vande Mataram and were invited by Mr Gandhi to perform on 15 Aug Independence day.

Sadly no pics!!!!!!!

Pulin Ashar

Baarish merbaan par bandeh pehlwaan ;)

Mazzzza aaya! We were a li'l delayed because of the rains but we decided to continue anyways after the clouds thinned down. Fingers crossed, we started out with a few rhythm patterns and that got us nicley warmed up. The evening that followed was brilliant for:-
1) It rained...& we still managed to play! :)
2) One of the kids requested for Vande Mataram and a guy stepped up from the audience and gave a beautiful rendition of the Lata Mangeshkar classic.
3) Even more new members joined the "orchestra".
4) There was some John Denver & Led Zeppelin too.
5) Suraj wasn't there (zoking!).


A special thanx to all our friends & other regulars who came to support us inspite of the rain, staying till the very end. Thanx a lot : )





Vande Mataram!


Stairway to Heaven. Shridhar on the left and one of Tarun's friends on the left - his name Tarun?


Once again, thanx a lot to our wonderfull audience for sticking and lifting spirits. Salaam! :)