Shanthi Fine Arts & Endowments (SAFE)

The annual December Festival is held from Dec. 8, 2009 to Dec. 17 this year.

The venue is Srinivasa Sastri Hall, (which is now an air-conditioned hall) on Luz Church Road, Mylapore.

The schedule of concerts:

Dec. 8, 2009 - Tuesday

• 6.00 p.m. - Inauguration
• 6.30 p.m. - Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin), Srimushnam Raja Rao (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec.9, 2009 - Wednesday

• 4.30 p.m. - Usha Padmanabhan (Vocal), Melakaveri Thiagarajan (Violin), Trivandrum R. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
• 6.30 p.m. - Sriram Gangadharan (Vocal), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), Srirangam Kannan (Morsing)

Dec.10, 2009 - Thursday

• 4.30 p.m. - Trichur Brothers - Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
• 6.30 p.m. - Jayalakshmi Santhanam (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), Nellai Balaji (Mridangam)

Dec.11, 2009 - Friday

• 4.30 p.m. - S. Mahati (Vocal), Neela Jayakumar (Violin), V.R. Jayakumar (Mridangam)
• 6.30 p.m. - Mysore R.A. Ramamani (Vocal), Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), Tanjore Kumar (Mridangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)

Dec.12, 2009 - Saturday

• 3.00 p.m. - Kanaka Durga (Vocal), Kalyani Shankar (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)
• 4.30 p.m. - Sangeetha Swaminathan (Vocal), Padma Shankar (Violin), Babu Rajasekar (Mridangam), Nerkunam Sankar (Kanjira)
• 6.30 p.m. - Ranjani Hebbar (Vocal), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), Melakaveri Balaji (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)

Dec.13, 2009 - Sunday

• 3.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Venkatraman (Violin), Vellore G. Ramabhadran (Mridangam), Vinod Venkatraman (Kanjira)
• 4.30 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan (Vocal), S.P. Anantha Padmanabha (Violin), Radhakrishnan (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)
• 6.30 p.m. - Kunnakudy M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), M.A. Sundaresan (Violin), Prapancham Ravindran (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec.14, 2009 - Monday

• 4.30 p.m. - Jayamangala Krishnamani (Vocal), T. Hemamalini (Violin), Thirukokarnam Krishnamoorthy (Mridangam)
• 6.30 p.m. - Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar (Flute), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam), Srirangam Kannan (Morsing)

Dec.15, 2009 - Tuesday

• 4.30 p.m. - M.S.N. Murthy (Vocal), Dr. Panthula Rama (Violin), Kumbakonam K. Ramakrishnan (Mrdangam), G. Harihara Sharma (Kanjira)
• 6.30 p.m. - Gayathri Venkatraghavan (Vocal), V.V.S. Murari (Violin), Umayalpuram Mali (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec.16, 2009 - Wednesday

• 4.30 p.m. - Dr. Ushalakshmi (Vocal), Srilakshmi Venkataramani (Violin), Manakkal Sriram (Mridangam)
• 6.30 p.m. - Dr. Panthula Rama (Vocal), M.S.N. Murthy (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)

Dec.17, 2009 - Thursday

• 4.30 p.m. - Shankari Krishnan (Vocal), Kalyani Shankar (Violin), Kumbakonam K. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
• 6.30 p.m. - Vasundhara Rajagopal (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)

__________________________________________________________________