Kailash Kher concert

After much dilly dallying, I decided to go to the concert. I have always been a fan of Kher's voice. He has a unique voice in the Indian music industry and I love a lot of his songs. So obviously when I found out about the concert, I was curious to go and hear him out in person. The only problem was that I had my last tennis day of this season and there was a game. But I somehow managed to go and play a few sets and leave. The whole madness was an adventure itself. It was a very busy day at work-I had an important presentation of my findings in the HG2 huddle. And then I headed for the tennis match. From there I drove down to Alewife station, parked my car and took the Red line to Davis Sq. station, just one stop from Alewife. The theatre was a stone's throw away from the T-stop. I almost thought that I will miss it as I was told that the ticket counter was supposed to close at 8pm. My plan was to initially buy the ticket online before I left work but by then I realized that the online ticket counter was closed.

Coming back to the concert, this was my first one in US. But it was worth all the madness I went through to get there. :o) Kher's voice was even more powerful when I heard him in person. It was awesome. Some guys were commenting on his accent when we stepped out of the theatre later that night. But who cares what his accent is. We were there to hear him out, and I have no complaints about what he had in store for us that evening. In fact, he performed most of my favorite numbers and it was almost magical hearing him sing those again. I say "almost" because I feel that better AV acoustics would have made the sound effects perfect. Luckily, he has such a hich-pitched and powerful voice that it was great nevertheless. I was also impressed by his music partners, Naresh and Paresh Kamath, who apparently are the music directors for most of his albums. In fact, I liked the whole team on stage-very smart and talented!