Aye Mere Dil by manohar Vaidya

Guru Manohar Vaidya played this song with complete music. Many visitors of this blog know Manohar Vaidya.
He plays more than 300 songs with complete music.
By the way, HCG players with family members are organising a two day trip to Mount Abu, in the second week of March.
We will be playing at Nakhi Talao.
HCG ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!

We are the one , we are the family..........

Maang ke saath tumhara

Little wonder Aditya and Guru Vaidyaji played this lovely song. Aditya is coming up as a very matured player. His main choice of songs is the all time favorite old and golden melodious songs. We have to congratulate and thank Aditya's parents for their continuous encouragement.
His younger brother Mihir is the youngest member of HCG. He is the official DJ of our club. We all dance and play, only at his mercy.

Suhani raat ...tum kab aaoge

When Yogesh Bhatt and Manohar Vaidya played this melodious song, we could see the audience totally being carried away. The music lovers started singing the song along with the performers.
Due to certain technical errors at my end I am not able to trim the videos properly from the entire cd. So pl bear with the incomplete videos.

Apoorva Bhatt

One of the trustees of HCG, Apoorva Bhatt accompanied us to Adipur. He is known for his dedication and sincerity in playing Lary Adler 48.
All of us get charged just by his presence, I swear !!!
He played a very famous song ' Pukarata chala hu mein '

Hai Apna Dil to Aawara

All the participants played this all time favorite song.

Adipur in Kutchch is a small place. Believe me it was a real fun trip.

sholay tune

HCG was invited by Zala Family, to perform in Adipur, Kutchch.
It was a musical Beithak , with a very limited audience of their very close family members and friends. Their harmonica journey began with Sholay Tune, Played by Paresh Bhatia.....

Please bear with us for the sound quality due to echo and noise created by generator.

Mouth Organ Maestro Madan Kumar Live

Living legend mouth organ virtuoso Madan Kumar was in Ahmedabad on a private visit when we requested him to be at the practice session of the Harmonica Club of Gujarat. Humility is the hallmark of great masters, and so with Madanji. He obliged the club members by his presence and remained with us till well past midnight. Though he has been suffering from severe cough and cold, he rendered a few numbers at our insistence.

Madanji uses a variety of techniques to explore the full potential of this tiny musical instrument to produce mesmerizing melodies, bringing in variations to the original tunes. We present here two of his numbers that exemplify his mastery over mouth organ.

Musician from London comes calling

Members of the Harmonica Club of Gujarat were privileged to have two distinguished mouth organ players amidst them during their practice session on Monday evening. They were mouth organ maestro Madan Kumar and London-based photographer Nitin Patel. While Madan Kumar has become a part of the HCG, blessing the club members with his presence during his brief visits to Ahmedabad, for Nitin Patel this was his first encounter with the HCG members.

The musical evening hosted by Chakshul Pandya continued well past midnight. A trigger-happy Nitin Patel kept on clicking photographs while the HCG members practiced. Nitin has promised to send us the photographs he has clicked which when received we will put up on the HCG blog.

In the meantime, here are the videos of three numbers played by Nitin:

In grandpa's footsteps

My 17-month-old grandson, Maitreya, sprung a surprise when he picked up my mouth organ and started playing it this morning. When he was six-month-old, Maitreya had surprised us all by holding the harmonica in the typical manner of a professional player. However, my subsequent efforts to prompt him play the instrument by blowing and drawing on the holes had failed to yield results till today.

Maitreya not only held the instrument the correct way but also blew and drew on notes - higher notes and lower notes. After some time, he moved away the mouth organ and sang a few lines in his gibberish only to pick the instrument to start playing it again. Hope he keeps up his interest and becomes the youngest mouth organ player of the Harmonica Club.

Mother and son Jugalbandhi.......

We have seen Devansh growing as a hardworking musician, but during the last practice session, his mother serprised all of us.......
Archana Shah, his mother has finished Visharad in vocals, and is still learning music.
Amrish Shah, Devansh's father may not be as good a musician as his other family members, but is always ready to spare his time for the club activities.
We wish Devansh and his mother a very successful musical life ahead.