Saturday, August 6, 2011




Sirishbhai is humility personified. Despite my repeated appeal to him to post his videos on the Harmonica blog, he has not obliged me. "You have made me a co-author of the blog, how can I even think of posting my own video," he said.

But, how can his humility deprive our music lovers from listening to this excellent rendition? So, I am using my prerogative to post Sirishbhai's video here.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

An Evening with magician mouth organist Ashok Bhandari

Ashok Bhandari, popularly known as Jadugar Bhandari, took the trouble of driving down from Janakpuri, Delhi, to Vaishali in Gaziabad, to spend an evening with me. These days, he is busy in the greening of Delhi campaign, organizing tree plantation events all across the national capital. His events management company was involved in building the brand 'Experience Delhi' during the commonwealth games. The brand building campaign involved specially designed T-shirts, wrist band, socks, keychain, mugs etc.

"I have not been playing harmonica for almost an year," he said when I asked him which were the latest numbers he played. I requested him to play a number which he has yet to upload on youtube. Here is the number: