Hamsadhwani - December Festival 2009

Holding music and dance events in a venue in the Adyar neighbourhood, Hamsadhwani features many expat and NRI artistes during its annual festival.
The venue for the events is Youth Hostel, 2nd Avenue, Indira Nagar, Adyar.
This year's festival is dedicated to Smt. D. K. Pattammal

The organisers can be reached at phone no. 91-44-24915555. Email : hamsadhwani@vsnl.net
The official website of the sabha here - http://www.hamsadhwani.org.in/

The schedule of 2009 festival:

Dec. 14, 2009 - Monday

• 5.30 p.m. - Dr. Sanjay Subramaniam (USA) - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan - Violin, Vikram Vasudevan - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Latha Murali (Oman) - Vocal, Neela Jayakumar - Violin, V.R. Jayakumar - Mridangam

Dec. 15, 2009 - Tuesday

• 5.30 p.m. - Padma Govardhan - Vocal, Akkarai S. Swarnalatha - Violin, Adambakkam J. Arvind - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Priya Shankar - Dance

Dec. 16, 2009 - Wednesday

• 5.30 p.m. - Krishna Ramarathinam - Vocal, Bombay Anand - Violin, P.K. Babu - Mridangam

Dec. 17, 2009 - Thursday

• 5.30 p.m. - Thayapari Niranjan - Veena, T.R. Sundaresan - Mridangam,
• 7.00 p.m. - LAASYA Arts Malaysia - Dance

Dec. 18, 2009 - Friday

• 5.30 p.m. - Yamini Ramesh - Vocal, T. Hemamalini - Violin, Arthavan Selvanathan - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Ramya Ramesh - Dance

Dec. 19, 2009 - Saturday

• 5.30 p.m. - Roopa Mahadevan - Vocal, Rajeev - Violin, Arjun Raghavan - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Yamini Saripalli - Dance

Dec. 20, 2009 - Sunday

• 4.00 p.m. - Subha Srinivasan - Vocal, Sriram Sridhar - Violin, Kalyan Shencottah - Mridangam
• 5.30 p.m. - Madurai R. Sundar - Vocal, Pakkala Ramadas - Violin, Trivandrum V. Balaji - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandam & Anuradha Sridhar - Violin, R. Ramesh - Mridangam

Dec. 21, 2009 - Monday

• 5.30 p.m. - Sandeep N. Bharadwaj - Violin, Mannarkoil J. Balaji - Mridangam, Srirangam Ravikrishnan - Ghatam
• 7.00 p.m. - V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal, V.V. Ravi - Violin, Athrey Nathan - Mridangam

Dec. 22, 2009 - Tuesday

• 5.30 p.m. - Shankar Ramani - Vocal, Chittoor K. Vijayaraghavan - Violin, L. Subramaniam - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Poornasri & Madhumita - Dance

Dec. 23, 2009 - Wednesday

• 5.30 p.m. - Bhavana - Vocal, K.P. Nandini - Violin, Erode Nagarajan - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Radica Giri - Dance

Dec. 24, 2009 - Thursday

• 5.30 p.m. - Vishaal Sapuram - Chitraveena, Jayanti Keshav - Violin, Ramesh Srinivasan - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Medha Subramani - Dance

Dec. 25, 2009 - Friday

• 4.00 p.m. - Ganesh Raman - Vocal, Ambika Prasad - Violin, Chinmai Raman - Mridangam
• 5.30 p.m. - Geetha Sundaresan - Vocal, Sri Vidhya R.S. Iyer - Violin, Sridhar Chari - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - S. Venkataraman - Vocal, Anayampatti G. Venkatasubramanian - Violin, Akshay Padmanabhan - Mridangam

Dec. 26, 2009 - Saturday

• 5.30 p.m. - Varun Kashyap Ganesan - Vocal, Rasika Murali - Violin, Naveen Basavanahalli - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Meghna Murali - Dance

Dec. 27, 2009 - Sunday

• 6.45 p.m. - Special Dance Programme

Dec. 28, 2009 - Monday

• 5.30 p.m. - King Brothers - Sean & Aneesh - Violin, Umayalpuram V. Kalyanaraman - Mridangam, Subba Rao - Ghatam
• 7.00 p.m. - Shreya Anand - Dance

Dec. 29, 2009 - Tuesday

• 4.00 p.m. - Shruti & Vidya - Vocal, Shyamala Hariharan - Violin, Kumar Kanthan - Mridangam
• 5.30 p.m. - Vijay Narayan - Vocal, Villivakkam Raghuraman - Violin,
• 7.00 p.m. - Varunika Raja - Dance

Dec. 30, 2009 - Wednesday

• 5.30 p.m. - Shyamala Ramakrishna - Vocal, K.J. Dileep - Violin, Thiruvidaimarudur Shankaran - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Dhriti Vaidyanathan - Dance

Dec. 31, 2009 - Thursday

• 5.30 p.m. - Vaibhav Mouli - Vocal, Aarti Shankar - Violin, Aparajith Sriram - Mridangam
• 7.00 p.m. - Chinmayee Venkatraman - Dance

_________________________________________________________________