Houston Maharashtra Mandal takes great pleasure to inform you our own Neha Pendase, is all set to perform at BMM 2009 convention next month in Philadelphia, PA.

She started taking formal lessons of kathak early at the age of 5. She did her bachelor in dance from Khairagar University /Masters from Devi Ahilya University Indore and secured gold medal. She toned her kathak skills with Savita Godbole (Lakhnow Gharana) she was the disciple of the Kathak Maestro Pandit lacchu maharaj and later with Dr. Suchitra Harmalkar from raigrah gharana.

Neha got the opportunity to participate in many national and state level cultural events/ competitions and won several medals in national level youth festivals. Above all she got a word of appreciation from the President of India Smt Prathibha Patil on june 08 before coming to USA. The central government of India also gave her scholarship for her contribution in Kathak for 6 consecutive years. Apart from kathak, she is also active in Marathi Theater and won many awards.

Neha performed at HMM Diwali 2008 program and greatly appreciated.

Houston Maharashtra Mandal takes great pleasure in recognizing a special local talent, a young man, who has made us very proud.

Nitish Kulkarni (15 years old), son of our own Shirish and Medha Kulkarni, is all set to perform at BMM 2009 convention next month in Philadelphia, PA. We all know that Nitish is an accomplished Tabla-player and now he will be showing talents on a global stage at the convention.

Nitish is scheduled to perfom in July 2009 at the BMM convention, accompanying a young singer from Toronto, Canada.



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