When Chai Met Toast
M4, second floor, south extension Part-2 Delhi - 110049
Thu, 04 Oct
09:00 PM - 12:00 AM
A simple breakfast. A simple melody. When Chai Met Toast takes inspiration from the lighter side of life to create music that is heart-warming, happy and smile worthy. The newest band from the land of coconuts, they gained fans quickly with a special acoustic setup and a unique brand of infectious happy music, which transcends age, genre and even language.
In the 2 and half years of being, the band has performed across venue s in the country for about 200 shows. Venue s and Festival s ranging from the most popular NH7 weekender, Red Bull Tour Bus to niche festivals like The Repertwahr theatre and music festival in Lucknow, the band has appealed to audience s across the length and span of the country. Other appearances include festivals like Orange Festiva – Dambuk, Annual Royal Enfield Biker Festival – Rider Mania and The exotic desert festivals – Taalbelia.
About Dhruv Visvnath
Some of us get ushered into journeys with the most prolific of words- for Confucius it was the “single step”, for Frost it happened through the “road less travelled”. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer- songwriter and the only Indian to be mentioned in Acoustic Guitar Magazine USA ‘s “30 Great Guitarists under 30” (2014) Dhruv Visvanath’s phrase just happened to be “women fawn over pianists”.
His mother’s advice, though, clearly resonated with the seven year old, whose piano classes eventually translated into a love for the guitar. Over the years, and with constant practice, he was able to hone his skills and bring to the sub-continent a unique style of percussive acoustic guitar playing, earning him the nickname ‘Guitar Spanker’. Though always having been musically inquisitive and influenced by the stories surrounding him in the various places he grew up in, it was the death of his father that really pushed Dhruv’s passion within the field, enabling him to find strength in this medium of expression. The result of this was the launch of his first EPChronicles in 2011, a collection of soulful finger-style/ percussive tracks he dedicated to his father. The following years saw him grow as a musician- both in terms of technique and his fan-base. He was nominated for a TOTO award (2012), in addition to playing for reputed sound fests like Pune’s Baaja Gaaja, and Delhi’s NH7 Weekender.