Add Some Music To Your Week with High Street Phoenix!

Events in Mumbai - Add Some Music To Your Week with High Street Phoenix! 17 to 21 September 2014

High Street Phoenix to host an array of special music performances the entire month of September

Mumbai, September 17, 2014: If you’ve ever heard the phrase, ‘Music is food for the soul’ then a visit to High Street Phoenix this month is a must! This September, the mall will be playing host to various musical artists making shoppers groove to the tune of R&B, Classical, Rock and Pop.

As of last week, different zones of the mall namely Grand Galleria, Sky Zone, West Court Lobby, etc have been transformed into various musical arenas featuring flautists, electronic DJs, violinists, etc. This week, the artists will perform from September 17- September 21, 2014 starting at 5.30 every evening.

If shopping to music is your jam, then hop on over to High Street Phoenix for a music-filled experience!

So bring out those dancing shoes and make your way to High Street Phoenix pronto!

Schedule :

17-Sep, Wednesday : West Court Lobby - Flute, Rachel + David
17-Sep, Wednesday : Skyzone - Indi-Folk Artist, Saurabh + Manoj
19-Sep, Friday : Palladium Atrium - Pop & Fusion, Abhisshek
19-Sep, Friday : Skyzone - Flute, Nikhil Nair + Rohit
20-Sep, Saturday : Grand Galleria - Violinist, Roger Mendonca + Mukund + Rohit
21-Sep, Sunday : Skyzone First Floor - Rock & Pop, Nikhil + Thomas
21-Sep, Sunday: West Court Lobby - R&B, Shinaya

Rachel & David
Country and jazz singer Rachel Philip started piano lessons at age 5 but, craving the freedom to experiment with raags and work on improvisations, bought herself a flute with her pocket money. After initially training with her school band, she began learning under Dinesh Mishra, a disciple of Hariprasad Chaurasia. Later, her flute solo inaugurated the Peace Day event at the Bombay YMCA.

Rachel  has trained for the Trinity College of London's examinations, appearing for Grade 6 for Speech and Drama and Grade 7 for Musical Theatre. She has also apeared for the Grade 4 examination from the Rock School of Music. In 2010, she freelanced at Blue Fun Umbrella, an organisation where she gave storytellers musical accompaniment. Among other memorable accomplishments, she has won several college festivals with her duet singing and a capella skills, performed in a musical production put up by St. Xavier's College's drama festival, and put up a show at the NCPA. She is now preparing to teach music at the True School of Music, Mumbai.

David Serri has been playing the guitar for an Italian Argentinian rock band called ‘Crazy Fratelli” they played many popular jazz and blues numbers and won a lot of competitions. They also recorded in Spanish and Italian and they were broadcasted in Argentina.

David is a composer and he plays the guitar, keyboard and piano. He has been teaching electric guitar since 2005 and he has actually been playing since 1992.

Saurabh & Manoj

A young 25 year old Punjabi mumbaikar plays the guitar, harmonium and is primarily known for singing. Saurabh has been singing ever since he was 5 and he sings popular Punjabi, Marathi, gujrathi, hindi and Bengali songs. He has been strumming the guitar since the last 2 years and plays rythms for himself. From 2012 Saurabh ahs been the winner of Voice of Nashik and earlier he has also been the winner of Chandigarh’s got talent. Participated in Indian Idol 4, SRGMP, Voice of India Saurabh is a resident musician of NSPA.

Manoj is a multi percussionist, turning 43 tomorrow he is young at heart and strikes the right beat at all songs. He not only plays rattlers, dholak, shakers, table, kanjira, dhapli etc a versatile range of percussions. He has done recordings for popular tv shows, reality shows and films too. He is a student of Ramakant Mapsekar a very famous table player of the music industry. Now that Navratri is here, Manoj has been travelling across the globe with Falguni Pathak and providing rythms since the last 16 years.

Abhisshek Chapke

At a young age he realized the hidden talent & started cherishing it with the initial steps of participating in his school's patriotic song competitions & winning them 1st ranked for the 3 consecutive years followed by the competitions & performances outside the school. He joined the guitar tutorial at his hometown to Mr.Manish Murhekar against his parents wishes and under immense pressurization for the studies by his parents led him to become an I.T Engineer & MBA in Operations but he participated & won in all the state level & Zonal level festivals held during his education along with the public performances that included his self compositions & thus developed his zest at the immense level & he couldn't stop himself to make it to the dreamland of Mumbai.

Gifted with a striking and exuberant demeanor, this musician is a multifaceted personality. Trained initially under Dr.Prof.Snehashish Das & now under Ustaad Maqbool Hussain Khan Sahab of the Rampur Sahaswan Gharana, Abhisshek performs now as a soloist is has a Fusion band called "Jihaana". This Vocalist-Composer-Songwriter is a regular performer at several music events across the city viz. The Art Hop 2013-Bandra, NGO Mela-Worli, Youth Art & Cultural Conference-Mount Abu & many more upcoming shows to add in the list.

Abhisshek has been winner & semi-finalist at many competitions & festivals like Radio City Super Singer-Top 5, MTV CoLab-Top 10, MTV R U Fresh Enuf?-Top 10, Mulund Fest, Best Performer @ University Youth Festival. He has also been covered & aired on different media channels like Zoom TV, 9XM, Radio City 91.1 FM & Times of India.

Thomas Albert & Nikhil Nair

Thomas Albert had never toyed with the idea of tripping on life as a musician-lyricist-singer. As a church choir participant in 2004, he was doomed as a flat singer; nonetheless, he took up someone's genuine advice to learn an instrument- and so the guitar it was. With active church participation, Thomas Albert's skills in singing and rhythm guitar gradually picked up his tune and people listened.

Thomas/Albert, has of late expanded his horizons with appreciative audiences in Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Pune. He is also known for his regular gigs at the Vadodara Bandstand, Kamatibaugh, Vadodara. - Ruchi Marshal

Nikhil Plays the percussions and the bass guitar. He has been a part of the band called Promiseland’s who play a few originals and covers of songs by various artists. Promiseland now collaborates with eclectic musicians and bands across the city to explore different genres and expand the boundaries of their creativity. Nikhil now accompanies various artists on guitar and bongo. 

Nikhil Honkalas

Nikhil has been playing the flute under the able guidance of his guru’s Shri MAhendra Gawand and Shri Sunikant Gupta. HE has been playing the flute since 2007, 24 year old smart and energetic flautist, Nikhil is very passionate about his music and works with many song writers and composers to produce music.

Nikhil has been a part of a famous band called Eternal December, this band has produced popular numbers that have topped the music charts and have won appreciation.

Roger, Mukund and Rohit

A young but well established accompanying artist, Viswanath Ramaswamy - better known as Mukund - never leaves his house without his Carnatic violin, which has accompanied him to a multitute of platforms and stages across India. A mechanical engineer by profession, his strongest childhood memory constitutes him seeing a close cousin play the violin. The experience was to transform him and send him on a journey - away from his mother singer Lata Ramaswamy's, to train under Shri N Kannan and Shri SV Ramachandran. Also a vocal student of Smt. Muthulakshmi Vedanarayan, Mukund blends both technique and soul into every raag he renders.

 Since his debut performance at Mumbai's Asthika Samaj in 2000, he has performed at Fine Arts societies across Mumbai, music festivals across India, and is an All India Radio artist. He is currently a member of the indigenous band Kabir Cafe, which performs the Sant Kabir's dohe interspersed with fusion and rock music.

Roger Mendonca is a trained Western classical violinist, and has played with the Bombay Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of India in the past. Also a vocalist, he currently sings with the Living Voices choir, and has been a part of the chorus for two operas namely Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in the past. Having performed at numerous platforms offered up by college festivals and competitions as well as more formal stages  like Blue Frog, Roger was initially apprehensive about performing at public spaces with the NSPA - "You never know whether your performances will go well, but usually commuters stop to watch and we receive a positive reaction. People are especially not used to seeing a violinist play! It's a completely unique experience.”​

Rohit Astekar is a guitar afficionado who taught himself to strum the guitar before he began learning under Dilip Palekar. With initial training in Hindustani Classical vocals and the harmonium, Rohit now experiments with pieces on his percussion guitar. He has performed at a host of college festivals and competitions. He calls his style of guitar playing "freestyle flamenco", and can accompany Indian and Western Classical and Folk musicians with equal ease.

About High Street Phoenix:

High Street Phoenix (HSP), is the first retail led consumption centre developed in India over a sprawling 3.3 million square feet. It houses over 500 brands including a variety of F&B, entertainment, commercial and residential complexes.  Pioneered by The Phoenix Mills Co. Ltd., HSP is led by its young, dynamic Managing Director, Atul Ruia and his team of professionals. At HSP, each zone has been specifically conceptualized and designed to offer an international experience and as an answer to emerging urban agglomerations typically defined as 'mixed used developments'.

The centre houses 3 distinct shopping zones viz. Skyzone, Grand Galleria and High Street Units (HSU).The multi-leveled Skyzone boasts of anchor stores of leading national and international brand retail outlets. The Grand Galleria caters to impulse shoppers and is connected to PVR Cinema’s 2000 seater 7 digital screens multiplex. The HSU houses a variety of stores which cater to niche lifestyles consisting of artifacts,
handicrafts, stylish accessories, apparel and jewelery stores including a gift store and an optician cum eye wear store. In a nutshell, HSU houses almost everything you can possibly desire to make a truly memorable retail experience.

Popularly known as the heart of HSP, ‘Courtyard’ - true to its name, presents the perfect platform for celebration and festivities. Completing this picture are an array of eateries that surround it. With a variety of first-of-its-kind retail stores, flagship stores and international brands under its umbrella is hard to resist. The

centre today stands as testament to mixed used development and is a unique destination with a wide variety of choices to appeal to all segments of the consumer across the board. 

HSP has added one of Mumbai’s, first luxury and premium luxury retail and entertainment destination, appropriately christened, ‘Palladium’. Palladium has, in a short span of time become an iconic landmark not only for Mumbai but for the entire country and offers four levels of exclusive shopping in an atmosphere of extraordinary sophistication and refinement all under one elegant roof.

The centre also has an expanded car park area making it one of the biggest car pool areas in Mumbai clocking on average of nearly 6,000 vehicles each day.

Winner of the “Most Admired Shopping Centre of the Year – Socially Responsible” at the Asia Shopping Centre and Mall Awards 2014.