A Must See: A R Rahman Live in Concert

Jitu
A R Rahman, the maestro of Indian music is coming to US and Canada after four years for a musical extravaganza, called 3rd Dimension World Tour. This is going to be a great opportunity for the people like me who love Indian music and want to see the musical personalities at their live concerts. A R Rahman will be in US and Canada almost for a month from 27th May 2007 to 17th June 2007 and performing this concert (3rd Dimension World Tour) at nine different centers (Atlanta, San Francisco, Vancouver, Houston, Chicago, Toronto, Dallas, New York and Washington) of United Sates of America and Canada.

A R Rahman means always a special means of Indian music. He is the composer who defines a new tradition of Indian music. He is the landmark of Indian music. In today's picture Indian music could have not been able to sustain the same glory and popularity without the contribution of A R Rahman. That was Rahul Dev Barman who first introduced the mild flavor of western music into the lyrics based rich Indian music and this is Rahman who completed that experiment of putting together the western and Indian music. The film 'Roja' was the first break for Rahman in earlier 90s. After that he never looked back. Rahman means a new way and rhymes of Indian Hindi songs. He was the music director of Bombay Dream (2002) which had a great success in England. The famous music composer Andrew Lloyd Webber appointed Rahman for this movie. Rahman is mainly famous for his contribution in Bollywood Hindi film music. He popularized the Bollywood Hindi movie song all over the world.

A R Rahman concert means full with great musicians and renowned technicians from India. All these nine concerts has been well planned and strategically formed to give the maximum to his audiences. A troupe of 70 people will put their creative arts together to produce something memorable for their audiences. This spectacular musical show will be full with Rahman's all old and new famous songs from his own compositions. The groups of dancer will also perform during the songs to make the show lively to its audience. The singers like Shukhwinder, Hariharan, Sadhana Sargam, Madhushree, Naresh Iyer, Chitra will be the co-singer of this 3rd dimension tour of Rahman. Any Rahman's concert can not be fulfilled without the presence of maestro of Drum Sivamani. Sivamani's skill on drum and percussion has always the extra gift of Rahman's concert. These musical nights will be full with popular Bollywood Hindi movie songs and Tamil songs. Before coming to USA and Canada Rahman did a very exciting performance at different cities of India as the promos of this great event. The first show Rahman did with his complete troupe in Bangalore with all musicians and technicians. There are lots of efforts and money involved to prompting a show like Rahman's 3rd Dimension World Tour. The few special parts of this performance will be having 3D effect, where audience can visualize a live performance with the help of pair of specialized glasses. We all are anxiously waiting to see this performance of A R Rahman as a part of his 3rd Dimension World Tour.

Here is the full schedule of A R Rahman's 3rd Dimension tour in North America provided by arrahmanlive.com.

1. City - Atlanta
Date - Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Venue - Philips Arena

2. City - San Fransisco
Date - Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Venue - Oracle Arena

3. City - Vancouver
Date - Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Venue - P.N.E Colliseum

4. City - Houston
Date - Friday, June 8, 2007 at 9:00 PM
Venue - Reliant Arena

5. City - Chicago
Date - Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Venue - Sears Center Hoffman Estates

6. City - Toronto
Date - Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Venue - Air Canada Center

7. City - Dallas
Date - Friday, June 15, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Venue - Special Event Center

8. City - New York
Date - Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Venue - Nassau Colliseum

9. City - Washington D.C.
Date - Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Venue - Patriot Centre

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  • Suneel6/18/2007

    It all started when he mumbled in the microphone.... "we all didnt sleep last night". Well all I can say is "why dont you just go home and get some sleep". If you cant do that kind of back to back concerts, please dont do it. Next time organize it better so that you will get some good sleep between concerts. I agree you are a very good music director and a good musician himself. I dont think anybody ever come close to producing music like you did, but come on, if your giving a concert please atleast pretend that you are giving a concert. Dont just sing some songs and go. Concert is about people, you have to make people involve in it. Its not a classical dance performance show where you sit and watch it and in the end you clap and appreciate how good it is and go home. Everybody knows you are a down to earth guy and humble but when you are giving a concert atleast shout once, dont act like a sage in the jungle meditating for peace and whisper in the microphone. Concert is all about audi

  • Anu6/14/2007

    I also thought the concert was not up to mark , I actually thought it was horrible. It was not the usual quality that one can expect from an A.R. concert. I felt like there was no balance between Tamil and Hindi songs, there were way more Hindi songs even though the crowd was three quarters Tamil. The songs they choose to sing were horrible (the last two songs from Sivaji sounded like yelling), there was no MC and so i didn't know who was singing at what time (EXTREME DISORGANIZATION!), and the sound in Air Canada Centre was horrible everything was echoing (except for Hariharan). I spent a lot of money and it all went to waste, I don't think I will ever go AR concert again! He was my favourite music composer of ALL time, I don't know if I have that same respect from him anymore.

  • hari6/11/2007


    The concert in Toronto on 10th June 2007 was not upto the mark. AR was like Rahul Dravid in the world cup 2007

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