Music artistes from across the globe come together for an online festival

Kavita Krishnamurthy, Panjak Udhas, Anup Jalota, Usha Uthup, Dr L Subramaniam and other in international artistes all set to perform online this month for a global music festival.
Talking about the festival, Krishnamurthy, who has been a part of this for the last two decades says, “I have been associated with the LGMF, first as an artiste and then as a member of the Subramaniam family. This is the 30th edition of the festival and the artistes are from around the world and distinguished in their fields like John Mclaughlin, Oystein Baadsvik, Svetlana Smolina, Rajery and Ursula Moreno.I'm a part of the Jupiter symphony written by my husband for an orchestra and recorded by the European Recording Academy.” In the past 50 years of her career, she has sung more than 20,000 songs in almost all the Indian languages.
Pankaj Udhas has fond memories of performing in the annual festival. Reminiscing about the festival he shares a memory, “One particular concert which is etched in my memory is the Visions of India concert which was held in Bengaluru, and I had this great opportunity to sing along with the stalwarts of Indian Shastriya Sangeet, Indian classical music. So I feel this particular concert I would always remember for the rest of my life.”
In a first, guitar icon, John McLaughlin will be playing a duet with violin maestro Dr L Subramaniam at this festival. Dr Subramaniam adds, “This year we are having a symphony orchestra with my recent composition Jupiter Symphony. This is the first time we are premiering a new symphony work for the festival in addition to presenting tuba virtuoso Oystein Baadsvik, one the of the finest Russian pianist Svetlana Smolina. Also, a leading musician from Madagascar, Rajery, will be performing Valiha. There will be videos featuring George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Stephane Grappelli, Ivry Gitlis among others and also a fabulous flamenco dance performance by Ursula Moreno from Madrid.”
The Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival was started in 1992 by Viji Subramaniam and Dr L Subramaniam, in memory of Prof V Lakshminarayana, father and guru of Dr L Subramaniam. This year due to the pandemic, the festival will be digital.