Aavakai Music - Bay area’s only live Telugu music band, in association with Peacock Indian Café, presented an eclectic New Year party, Sandadi ’08 – a live Telugu New Year's eve dance party for the first time in the Bay area.

There was tremendous response for the show with 500+ Telugu audience and the tickets were completely sold out a day before the show. The party included sumptuous dinner, energetic live dance performances by local artists, dance floor with live music from Aavakai band and non-stop telugu deejay music.
Aavakai kicked off their performance with their theme song – “Aavakai – thinani brathukey wastu, Aavakai – vinani lifey rustoo, Aavakai – worldu loney bestu, Idi telugu vaadi tastoooo!”
 
In spite of audio glitches for the first couple of songs because of unanticipated rush at the venue, the band quickly rebounded on the stage with tremendous energy and enthusiasm and captivated the audience with high-energy dance and techno numbers. Soon, lot of young dancers got on to the stage to dance to the foot-tapping music. By the time the live show reached its climax, the dance floor was overflowing with relentless energy. True to their punchy tag line of ‘we serve spicy music’, the band’s  infectious energy spiced up the dance floor.
 
All the singers showed maturity & youthful vigor in their voices and the orchestration for the songs was mesmerizing. The band performed ‘You are my Choco bar’ from Chirutha, ‘Ye Cheekati’ from Happy Days, ‘Shankar Dada MBBS’ title song and many other telugu dance hits.

The audience was also entertained with a variety of high energy dance performances and the floor was open to Telugu DJ music towards the end of the show. There was champagne toast by Raman Sanchula at the stroke of ‘12 and the New Year was welcomed with cake cutting amidst fervour.

About Aavakai: Aavakai is a highly energetic group of talented & fanatic music lovers, and was formed earlier this year by Surya Vakkalanka who has made his mark as a music composer and keyboardist in the SF bay area from the last 7 years. Their recent concert in November, that helped raise more than $10,000 for Sankara Eye Foundation, organized by San Mateo High School , was an instant hit.
Their energetic team that performed for Sandadi consists of:
Susmitha Vakkalanka (Co-founder, team manager), Surya Vakkalanka (founder, composer, keyboards & vocals), Srikanth Garimella (keyboards and vocals), Arun Viswanathan (drums and mimicry), Krishna Tangirala (bass guitar & vocals), Praveen Sadhu (lead guitar), Yamini Potti (vocals), Dr. Swathi Upadhyaya (vocals), Narayanan Raju (vocals) and Vamsi Nadella (vocals & stand-up comedy).
For more info visit: www.aavakai.com
 
Dinner was served by co-organizers Peacock Indian café popular in the bay area for their Hyderabad Dum Biryani, with a wide variety of vegetarian & non-vegetarian dishes.
Live dances were performed by:
Choreographers: Harinath & Kalyani Chikoti, Nithya Srinivasan
Dancers: Srividya Vemulakonda, Madhu Pokkuluri, Sirisha Kaleru, Sanjay Nagapuri, Dr. Vijay Susarla, Sunil Indluru
Master of Ceremony for the event: Manasa Rao
This program was made possible by the generosity of the following Sponsors:
Dr. Swathi Upadhyaya & Dr. Deepika Jain, Dental Solutions: (408) 531-9501
SampePage Information Solutions: www.samepageinfosol.com
Kumar Talluri, Intero Real Estate: www.talluri-realtor.com (408) 342-8677
Samir Chaudhary, Bank ofAmerica Mortgage Loans: (408) 991-8314
Sicher Solutions: www.sicherglobal.com
Sandadi ‘08 event was organized by: Aavakai Music (Susmitha Vakkalanka) and Peacock Indian Café (Raman Sanchula)