Classical music concerts in Nehru Park

It’s that time of the year again. Delhi’s days are dramatically shorter. You air your light-weight Jaipuri razais, and colourful bandhini shawls. And get set for the high season.

It’s also the time when Nehru Park comes joyously alive to the sound of music. The setting is perfect, as the evening blossoms let out their fragrance, dusk darkens to night, and you sit on chairs, or sprawl on the grass, and lose yourself to the magic of some of India’s greatest musicians.

Trendy lets you in on three fabulous concerts, up next.

Oct 28: Ashwini Bhide, one of the most original, brilliant interpreters of her school of gayaki, the Jaipur Atrauli gharana. Hariprasad Chaurasia: think of the bansuri, and you think Hariprasad, world-renowned flautist.

Nov 17: U Srinivas: his mastery of the Carnatic raagdari and laykaari on the mandolin is unmatched. Shubha Mudgal: avant garde voice of her generation, her full-throated voice, which straddles pop and classical with equal ease, blows you away.

Dec 1: Ulhas Kashalkar: mellifluousness personified, the seamlessness of his singing has a truly spiritual quality. Krishan Maharaj: one of the grand old masters of the Hindustani tabla, he’s influenced several well-known tabla players in the current generation.

Sublime.

Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. All concerts start at 6 pm. Presented by SPICMACAY and NDMC.