A Children’s Day special from Raaga Music Academy features the well-known Mandolin player Vid. Sadgun Aithal  on Saturday the 18th at 5.30 pm at Prajna Kuteera Ayurveda Centre, Vishwamanava Double Road, Kuvempunagar.

A child prodigy, Sadgun, who is just 14 years of age now, is a student of Vid. U. Prasanna Kumar (direct disciple of Mandolin Maestro late U. Srinivas). Apart from Mandolin, he is learning Vocal music, Mridanga, Veena and Keyboard. A class 9 student, he has passed Junior Grade exams in Karnatak Vocal with 99.5% and Karnatak Mandolin with 98.5%.

On Saturday, he is being accompanied by another young star Vid. Nikshith Puttur on the mridanga and the evergreen doyen Vid. V.S. Ramesh on the morching.

This Smt. D. Ramabai Memorial Endowment concert is sponsored by Dr. M. Jagannath Shenoi of Ramabai Charitable Foundation.

For details, contact Ph: 0821-2542069 or Mob:9449703610.

—Veena Arun Kumar