नचिकेता देसाई बने सब बच्चो के दादाजी

पुरे भारत में नवरात्रि महोत्सव खूब धामधूम से मनाया जाता है। रात भर सभी लोग डंडिया और गरबा खेलते है।
एक रात मुझे उनकी सोसाइटी में जाने का मौका मिला। मैंने ड्रम्स पर हाथ साफ़ किया और उन्होंने अपनी अदा में हार्मोनिका बजा कर बच्चो से काफी डांस करवाया।
एक छोटी सी झलक......

Tapan rocks

Harmonica Club of Gujarat founder secretary Tapan Bhatt is a rock star. A plastic engineer by education, an interior designer by profession, a pioneer of break-dance who introduced this dance form to Gujarat, a hypnotist who has cracked many a complex crimes for the police, an Information Communication Technology entrepreneur, an ornithologist and breeder of exotic species of reptiles, Tapan is a passionate music lover.

Tapan sprang a surprise during the Navratri festival in my campus, Akbhar Nagar, last night by displaying his skill as an accomplished drummer. Akhbar Nagar, celebrating its Silver Jubilee, had called popular band, Heaven Music led by famous drummer Sunil Patel. The band was in full swing and the residents of the colony, men, women and children, in their traditional attire were swaying to the Gujarati garba songs when Tapan appeared on the stage and requested Sunil to hand over the drum sticks to him.

And, Tapan rocked.

Parimal Garden sings with us on Sundays

जब से हार्मोनिका क्लब ऑफ़ गुजरात शुरू हुआ है तब से हम परिमल गार्डेन में हर रविवार मिलते है और जश्न मनाते है। इस रविवार हमने काफी प्रक्टिस की। इस प्रक्टिस के दौरान हमने ये गीत बजाया जो हर एक के दिल में बसा हुआ है।
' सावरे सलोनी आये दिन बहार के और ऐसे ही हम मिले हर रविवार के दिन '
मनोहर वैद्यजी ने संगीत दिया और बाकि सब लोग जुड़ गए।
हर एक प्रेमी का परिमल में स्वागत है .........संगीत के हो तो और भी मज़ा आएगा !!!!

Angel got caught on mobile

Devansh was practicing on his newly purchased suzuki make melodica, when I called him to inform about the upload of his song on the HCG blog. On my request , he played a very romantic song " shayad yahi hai pyar ".
Devansh, now a days you are playing only love songs !!!! :-)
Well, a student of sir Howard Levy, has to do some bending in a very nice song called, Angels.
Devansh plays this song along with the singer in the back ground.

Devansh is in LOVE

Yes Devansh is in love with his musical instruments. We all still remember his early days of joining the HCG as a student of Paresh Bhatia.
Today Devansh is getting control over various musical instruments and his sense of music also..
He has been getting support from many senior harmonica players, like Roustom Karwa, Madanji, Sabnaveesji, Manohar Vaidyaji and Paresh SIR.
He is also a student of Sir Howard Levy.
The kids of HCG have made their respectful positions in the club, by not only showing their love for the instrument , but also by working very hard.
HCG is very thankful to Devansh's parents for having faith in us and supporting his LOVE for music.

Mr. Godrej from Aurangabad.

This is one more video of Mr. Godrej.

The Man who lives music

Recently, treasurer of HCG, Kumarpal Shah met MR. Meherhomji Godrej in one of the conferences in Aurangabad. He was surprised to see him perform with guitar and mouth organ.
With his permission he recorded three beautiful videos.
Mr. Godrej performs in Hotel Rana International since last three years. He has played with some of the top music groups in star hotels.
We have many such hidden jewels in the country.
We really need to find them out and showcase their talents.

For a few dollors more

Every one becomes good, bad and ugly for a few dollars...............more !!!!!!
Paresh Bhatia plays these tunes beautifully well. Separate the audio track and the cow boy series ring tone is ready on your mobile.

Guru Shishya Jugalbandhi

Normally in Parimal, I take the responsibility of causing headache to my friends by trying to bend a few notes :-).
But this time both my and our guru Pareshbhai and our dear Devansh did a good job on chromatic harmonica and demonstrated bending skills .
Ya, the song was beautifully played by both of them. Pl listen to it...........

Aa Laut ke aaja mere : Manhar Majithia

' Life is half spent before we know, what it is '
There are two types of people in this world. Catagory no.1 live life, by the external forces and category no.2 live their life with internal forces and enjoy every bit of it..
There are people, who have the daring to explore and experiment new things, at any age.
There can not be a better example than our Dear Manhar Majithia . I still remember his first day with a Hero brand harmonica, then chromatic, and today with a diatonic.
He is the person, who would always take up the challenges despite of his age and health related problems.
He used to play the SIONARA song in the public performances, meaning he was given the last chance.
One day I just asked him to prepare a good number and play with little more breath control. Today he is in the list of top ten !!!
We really congratulate him for his sincerity, hard work and making all the efforts to live every moment of his life