Bindhumalini, Pallavi MD and Vedanth Bharadwaj, finding themselves at sea, sieve through songs and stories, looking for cues and directions to find ways to navigate through loss and hope, and to find the future they want to sail towards.
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Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy is a composer and singer who constantly strives to explore avenues outside of her strict classical roots to play with the pure soul stirring power that music has. She has journeyed to various hamlets, villages, cities, and countries sharing the songs and poems of various mystic saints of India. She has directed music for feature and documentary films in Tamil, Kannada and other languages. She won the National Award and Filmfare Award as Best Singer for the songs she created and sang in the film Nathicharami. Bindhumalini has been expanding her craft, community, and repertoire through multidisciplinary collaborations.
Pallavi MD is a singer, composer, actor and filmmaker who comes from a family of artists, and has a degree in Hindustani classical music from Benares University. She has won multiple awards including the META Best Actress award, the State Kempegowda award, and the prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for her contribution to the field of Bhav Sangeet. She has performed jugalbandis with classical musicians, and has been a part of many fusion and world music ensembles. Pallavi is keen on collaborating with multidisciplinary artists and looks for projects that experiment with form and content.
A multi-faceted, multi-genre musician, Vedanth Bharadwaj specialises in singing and playing the songs of saint poets from the Bhakti and Sufi traditions at music festivals in India and across the world. He has formally learnt Carnatic, Hindustani, and Western Classical music and is currently a disciple of maestro Ramamoorthy Rao. In addition to composing music for dance and theatre productions, award winning feature films, advertisements, documentaries, and music albums, Vedanth is the co-director of Nalandaway’s Chennai Children’s Choir (featuring young talent from economically disadvantaged backgrounds), which represented India at the Serenade Chorale Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Vedanth wishes to spread hope, love and peace in our world through music.
