After the concert at Hyderabad Sathya and team was rushing to the catch up train to Kakinada for a concert next day. It was probably the first time Sathya is not in Chennai with his mother for celebrating the Pongal festival. Also this is one of the times where the team had the luxury of traveling by air-conditioned class due to want of seats in sleeper class. It did give a good period of rest for the team and where very much fresh when they reached Kakinada. After having enjoyed the Boghi Lunch the team was ready to perform in the evening where specific request for performing Buntureethikolu, Pakalanilapadi and Inthasowkyamu came in as they reached the hotel room in the morning itself along with that of a krithi in Sivaranjani.
Starting the concert with Bhairavi varnam in two speeds Sathya went on to perform Sri Mahaganapathim in ragam Abogi. Sathya preferred to play elaborate raga alapana fro Vasantha, Karaharapriya and Kaapi. Ananthakrishnan excelled throughout and was seen enjoying the concert throughout. His kalpanaswarams kept Sathya improvising and this became a feast for the audience. This was seen particularly in the main krithi for which Sathya performed ragamalika swaram in ragas, Sivaranjani, Brindavani, Mohanam and Sindhubhairavi. Suri and Hari were their usual best and made the audience enjoy their thani. It was a team effort once again which was the cause for winning the hearts of the audience. One of the organisor had listened to the track of Vakulabaranam performed earlier day at Hyderabad which Sathya was checking in his system and on his request performed the same here and won special applause for the speed control on the instrument.
The list of krithis performed are as under:
01. Varnam - Bhairavi - Atathalam
02. Sri Mahaganapathi - Abogi - Kandachappu [R & S]
03. Seethamma - Vasantha - Rupakam [S]
04. Sadhimchane - Arabi - Adhi
05. Buntureethikolu - Hamsanadham - Adhi [R & S]
06. Vakulabaranam - a piece from remember Sakthi
07. Pakalanilapadi - Karaharapriya - Misra Chappu
08. Inthasowkyamu - Kaapi - Adhi
09. Ennakavipadinalum - Sivaranjani - Ahdhi
10. Palluke - Anandhabhairavi - Adhi
11. Brahmamokate - Bowli - Adhi Tisranadai
12. Thillana - Jonpuri - Adhi follwed by Mangalam.
A privilege and honour was for Sathya having got an oppurtunity to perform in one of the oldest forums of over 100 years. The success of the concert was seen with the fact that there were two concerts booked after the concert, one on the 21st Jan'08 which could not be accepted due to want of train tickets and the other in Feb'08 which probably will be effected. Also on the return travel we had a TTE who was happy to have been with musicians and even sang a song for us and HAri played Ghatam. Also one of the squad members checking the passengers Sri Gandhi, on knowing about Sathya bought his newly released Sathya's Synthesis album of Moserbaer and this was indeed a interesting happening!
