Mysore/Mysuru: Famed vocalist Vidu. Mangalam Shankar will be presenting a vocal concert at Sri Mysore Vasudevacharya’s house in city on Saturday (Apr. 29). She will be accompanied by Vid. Arunachal Kartic on violin and Vid. R.S.R. Srikanth on mridanga. The concert, scheduled to start at 10.30 am, is open to the public.
Vidu. Mangalam Shankar, daughter-in-law of Veena exponent Kalaimamaṇi Kalpagam Swaminathan, is a vocalist of great repute. Endowed with a voice of unusual power, emotions and timbre, she stands tall as the torch-bearer of the famed T.M. Thyagarajan (TMT) tradition. She began learning Karnatak music from her mother Valadi Janaki Annadhanam at a very early age and came under the direct tutelage of Sangita Kalanidhi T.M. Tyagarajan in 1974.
