Mysore/Mysuru: Mysore Artistes Association has urged the Superintendent of Police (SP), Mysuru District and Director of Kannada and Culture Department not to give permission to Karaoke programmes during the forthcoming Dasara cultural programmes.
The artistes, led by Association General Secretary Gurudutt, who submitted a memorandum to SP Seema Latkar, said: “By permitting such Karaoke songs rendered in the backdrop of music track, it will be a blot on the rich Dasara music tradition of Mysuru that has a history spanning several hundreds of years. Any style of music concerts like Hindustani, Karnataka classical, light music, folk, orchestra, tala vadya, singing, devotional songs, devaranama, dance-drama, bharatanatyam, theatre songs, raitha geethe, Nada Geethe (State Anthem) are rendered along with percussionists. Most of the artistes are dependent on such events, backed by the constant encouragement of crores of music connoisseurs. The erstwhile Maharajas of Mysore have made enormous contributions to the field of art in Mysuru considered as the ‘Native of Artistes’.”
