Sth Indian drumming

[vidya at cco.caltech.edu]

To begin with, the practice of having music concerts is itself 
a fairly recent phenomenon, about 100 - 150 years old. As far as 
I am aware of, there were no separate tAla vAdya kacceris till the
later 60's - early 70's. I haven't heard of the stalwart Palghat 
Mani Iyer performing any tAla vAdya kacceris in the modern format.
He did play once with the tabla maestro Tirakhwa, if I remember
right. 

Thus, I would think that it is indeed a recent phenomenon to have
tAla vAdya ensembles performing concerts, roughly 25-30 years old. 

S. Vidyasankar