North-Indian Classical Music By Jaywant Naidu: Events in Hyderabad

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The World Music Day (Fete de la Musique) is being celebrated on 21st June at HICC, Novotel, with a series of concerts from 6pm. A variety of musical programs have been scheduled for the evening including North-Indian Classical Music, Western Classical Music, Jazz, Contemporary Instrumental, R&B, Pop, Rock & deejaying.

The event will kick off with an inaugural concert of North-Indian classical music, by Jaywant Naidu, at 6:30pm. Naidu, on his Hawaiian guitar, will be accompanied with the rhythms of the tabla. Naidu is the creator of Jaywant Guitar, a modified Hawaiian guitar that can produce the sound of more than one guitar, and also combines the sounds of a sitar, sarod, surbahar and veena in one single musical instrument.

The young maestro started learning the Hawaiian guitar at the age of 8 from S N Mukherjee. He took further training from Dinesh Kumar Sampat, and stood first in the prestigious J C Bahl Competition organized in September 1983. While studying in Sydenham College, Mumbai, Naidu took further guidance from B Kishtaiah and K Jangaiah, and completed his Sangeet Visharad from the Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Miraj.

Naidu has played at a number of music festivals including at the National Youth Festival, Bhopal; the Vaadya Madhuri Festival, Chennai; the Deepika Youth Festival '98, Hyderabad; and the Andhra Pradesh Police Academy and the Andhra Music Festival organized by the Shivaganga Sangeeta Parishat, Bheemunipatanam.

In June 2001, he joined French Celtic guitarist Francois Auger to give a fusion performance at the Alliance Francaise, Secunderabad. He was also the first guitar player to perform a concert at the Asthana Mandapam of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam.

The event is being organized by the Alliance Fran