Nidhi Harihar — Songs of India

Nov 3 · 12:30p · 30 min · Devcon 8 Music Space, Mumbai

DRAFT rider. Built 27 Oct 2026 from the artist’s own words where they wrote to us, and from their application form where they have not yet. Never a guessed connector — where we don’t know, the page asks.

🗓️ Who / when


Set	Mon 3 Nov · 12:30p (IST) · 30 min
Who's playing	Solo voice. Hindustani classical since age 5; folk songs across many states and languages.
Shape	Voice over backing tracks (blocked — see Own voices, own beats) or live classical rendition, improvised.

🎒 They bring

Her voice. That is the instrument.
A USB stick with her backing-track files (she also has the files on her own device).
No guitar — she said so explicitly, and she'd love a guitarist to strum the chords instead.

🔌 They plug into — connector by connector

#	What	Out of her side	Into the floor	Board
1	Her voice	—	SM58 on a stand → XLR	1 ch
2	(only if the playback route is cleared) backing tracks	a USB stick — which needs a machine to play it. We have no confirmed playback device on the floor.	unknown	2 ch

We will not write a connector for #2. A USB stick is not a connector — it needs a laptop, a media player or a mixer with USB playback, and nobody has confirmed one exists in the room.

Channels on the board: 1 (voice). 3 only if a playback lane is cleared and a device is found.

🏠 House provides (what Amogh listed, 26 Oct)

Mixer board with open channels — how many channels, nobody has told us yet (after 4 pm the board is shared/open for anyone).
Mics: SM57 / SM58 (vocal + instrument) and ambient mics.
One 6.35 mm (¼") jack on the floor for instruments.
PA (the room's speakers).
Nothing else is confirmed. Monitors, DI boxes, a keyboard, a DJ deck, power strips, tables: all still open questions — see below.

❓ Still missing / open

🚨 A playback device. If backing tracks are cleared, what plays the USB stick? A house laptop? A mixer with a USB player? Her own phone + a 3.5 mm → dual ¼" cable? This has to be answered before it can be patched.
Mic stand — not on the house list.
A monitor wedge — she asked for a monitor by name. A singer with no instrument needs to hear herself.
🤝 An accompanist. She offered: "if available, I'd love to collaborate with a guitarist who can strum the chords." That is the most beautiful fix in this whole rider — a live guitar or harmonium makes the backing-track question disappear entirely. Shaka's uke, Aakash's harmonium, or any artist in the circle.
Her slot is 30 min, 40 min after the Devcon opening ceremony — she opens our room. Line check needs to be done before 11:50a.

🗺️ Stage plot

(the one place we say "stage" — it's the technical word. Everywhere else: the floor, the circle.)


                      the circle
          ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
       ·                                   ·
     ·            [SM58 on stand]            ·
    ·                   |                     ·
    ·               NIDHI (voice)             ·
    ·                   |                      ·
    ·    (guitarist / harmonium — invited)     ·
    ·        ~~~~ monitor wedge ~~~~           ·
     ·                                       ·
       ·                                   ·
          ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
             floor cushions · she opens the room

📣 One line for Amogh

🎛️ Status

She wrote twice (26 Oct) and offered the live-classical alternative herself. The mic + stand + monitor is safe to lock. The backing-track lane is not ours to decide.