Sri Krishna Gana sabha December Concerts - 2009

The Art and Dance festival at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha has a few unique features.
Apart from the music and dance recitals, Harinama Sankeerthanam is held from Day one of the festival till Jan.1. Everyday at 7 a.m.

Natya Kala Conference, a six day academic and demonstrative sessions is a part of the art festival.
This will be from Dec.26 to 31, 2009

Following the month long events is Pongal Nadaswara Isai Vizha with two exclusive Nadaswaram concerts in the evenings from Jan.13 to 17,2010

Venue ; Nalli Gana Vihar, Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai (Griffith Road), T.Nagar, Chennai - 17

The schedule of concerts is here:

Date	Time	Artistes	Accompaniments
Dec.12, 2009 Saturday	4.00 p.m	Mangala Isai - Nadaswaram
	6.00 p.m.	Inauguration
	7.30 p.m.	Shallu Jindal (Dance) - Bharatanatyam
Dec.13, 2009 Sunday	7.00 a.m.	Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m.	Mala Ramadurai - Vocal Hindustani & Carnatic Music	Padma Shankar –Violin, B. Ganapathiraman – Mridangam - Nerkunam Sankar - Kanjira
	12.00 noon	Athira Krishna - Violin	Trivandrum R. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, N. Rajaraman – Ghatam
	4.30 p.m.	Aruna Sairam - Vocal
	7.30 p.m	Gayathri Kannan & Mahathi – Bharatanatyam
Dec.14,2009 Monday	7.00 a.m.	Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m.	T. Rukmani (Violin) Amritha Murali (Violin)	Vellore Ramabhadran – Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham – Kanjira
	2.00 p.m	G. Madhavan (Vocal)	Usha Rajagopalan (Violin),T.R. Sundaresan (Mridangam),Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)
	4.30 p.m	P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal)	T.K.V. Ramanujacharlu (Violin), Kaaraikudi Mani (Mridangam), N. Govindarajan (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Chitra Visweswaran – Bharatanatyam
Dec.15, 2009 Tuesday	7.00 a.m	Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Sangeetha Sivakumar (Vocal)	V. Sanjeev (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), Sukkanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)
	2.00 p.m.	Vadhya Tarangini - Ensemble	V.L. Kumar (Electric Violin), Allam Durga Prasad (Adichitra Veena) Thiruvarur Swaminathan (Flute), Mudhra Bhaskar (Mridangam), N. Sundar (Tabla), Pudukkottai Ramachandran (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran (Vocal)	Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Roja Kannan's Group – Bharatanatyam
Dec.16, 2009 Wednesday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	B. Kannan (Veena)	M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin),Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam), T.V. Vasan (Ghatam)
	2.00 p.m	Subiksha Rangarajan (Vocal)	Akkarai S. Swarnalatha (Violin), Tanjore S. Subramanian(Mridangam) S. Sunil Kumar (Tabla)
	4.30 p.m	U. Shrinivas (Mandolin)	H. K. Venkatraman (Violin), B. Harikumar (Mridangam), Shree Sundarkumar (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Shailaja – Bharatanatyam
Dec.17, 2009 Thursday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Dr M. Narmada (Violin)	Trivandrum R. Vaidyanathan, (Mridangam), Pudukkottai Ramachandran (Ghatam), R.V.P. Balachandran (Morsing)
	2.00 p.m	Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan (Vocal)	Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan (Vocal)	M. Chandrasekaran (Violin), Guruvayur Dorai (Mridangam), Bangalore N. Amrit (Kanjira)
	7.30 p.m	Urmila Sathyanarayanan – Bharatanatyam
Dec.18, 2009 Friday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Sikkil Gurucharan (Vocal)	Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin), Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam (Mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (Ghatam)
	2.00 p.m	Madurai R. Sundar (Vocal)	R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin), Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam),Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Bombay Jayashree (Vocal)	Embar S. Kannan (Violin), K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
	7.30 p.m	Gopika Varma – Mohiniattam
Dec.19, 2009 Saturday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Madhura Viswanathan – Bharatanatyam
	11.00 a.m.	Konjum Salangai - Dance tribute to Kaviarasu Kannadasan – choreographed by Radhika Shurajit
	2.00 p.m	Kunnakudy M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal)	M.A. Sundaresan (Violin), Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Giridhar Uduppa (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Hyderabad Brothers - D. Raghavachari and D. Seshachari (Vocal)	Sriram Parasuram (Violin), Srimushnam Raja Rao (Mridangam), T.V. Vasan (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Malavika Sarukkai - Bharatanatyam
Dec.20, 2009 Sunday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	S. Shashank (Flute)	B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Anand (Ghatam)
	12.00 noon	Shreya Devnath (Violin)	Vellore G. Ramabhadran (Mirdangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
	2.00 p.m	Mahadevan Shankar (Vocal)	Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Malladi Brothers (Vocal)	M.A. Sundaresan (Violin), Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
	7.30 p.m	V.P. Dhananjayan and Shantha Dhananjayan - Bharatanatyam
Dec.21, 2009 Monday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	T.N.S. Krishna (Vocal)	M. Chandrasekaran (Violin), Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (Ghatam)
	2.00 p.m	S. Saketharaman (Vocal)	Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam), T.V. Vasan (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Priya Sisters (Vocal)	B. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Rajeswari Sainath & Troupe – Bharatanatyam
Dec.22, Tuesday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	O.S. Thyagarajan (Vocal)	V.V. Ravi (Violin), Bangalore V. Praveen (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)
	2.00 p.m	Sowmya Sudarshan (Vocal)	Akkarai S. Swarnalatha (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)
	4.30 p.m	Gayathri Venkatraghavan (Vocal)	Padma Shankar (Violin), J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam)
	7.30 p.m	Shobana – Bharatanatyam
Dec.23, 2009 Wednesday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Visakha Hari (Harikatha) Srinivasa Vaibhavam
	2.00 p.m	Sumitra Nitin (Vocal)	Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), D. Venkata Subramaniam (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin)	Haridwaramangalam A.K. Palanivel (Thavil), V. Suresh (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Priyadarshini Govind – Bharatanatyam
Dec.24, 2009 Thursday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Visakha Hari (Harikatha) – Padmavathy Kalyanam
	2.00 p.m	V.K. Raman (Flute)	Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), R. Ramesh (Mridangam), N. Guru Prasad (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Jayanthi Kumaresh (Veena) Ronu Mjumdhar (Flute) Jugalbandhi	Arjun Kumar (Mridangam), Rajendra Nakod (Tabla)
	7.30 p.m	Dr. Ananda Shankar Jayant – Bharatanatyam
Dec.25, 2009 Friday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam
	9.30 a.m	Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal)	R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin), Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), R. Raman (Morsing)
	12 noon	Lavanya (Vocal)	Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), Hemanth (Mrdangam), N. Narasimhan (Kanjira)
	2.00 p.m	Vittal Ramamurthy and Padma Shankar (Violin Duet)	Srimushnam Raja Rao (Mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal)	S. Varadarajan (Violin), Neyveli B. Venkatesh (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Narthaki Nataraj – Bharatanatyam
Dec.26, 2009 Saturday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Natya Kala Conference Inauguration
	12 noon	Vishaal Sapuram (Chitraveena)	Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Rishikesh Thirumalai (Mridangam), D. Venkata Subramaniam (Ghatam)
	2.00 p.m	Saashwathi Prabu (Vocal)	S. Karthick (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), G. Harihara Sharma (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal)	T.K.V. Ramanujacharlu (Violin), Srimushnam Raja Rao (Mridangam), V. Suresh (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Dr. Padma Subramanyam – Bharatanrithyam
Dec. 27, 2009 Sunday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Natya Kala Conference
	12 noon	Savita Sreeram (Vocal)	Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), Trivandrum Rajagopal (Kanjira)
	4.30 p.m	Ranjani & Gayatri (Vocal)	Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam), N. Guru Prasad (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Manipuri Nata Sankeerthana – Sponsored by Sangeeth Nataka Academy
Dec.28, 2009 Monday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Natya Kala Conference
	2.00 p.m	Aparna Balaji (Vocal)	Kalyani Shankar (Violin), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal)	M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin), Anand (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
	7.30 p.m	Peacock Blue - Concept Design by Gowri Ramnarayanan Shhijith Krishna and Anjana Anand – Dance, Gayathri Venkatraghavan (Vocal)
Dec. 29, 2009 Tuesday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Natya Kala Conference
	2.00 p.m	Jayashri Jayaramakrishnan (Vocal)	K.J. Dileep (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
	4.30 p.m	S. Sowmya (Vocal)	T. Rukmani (Violin), Manoj Siva (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)
	7.30 p.m	Kalakshetra – Sabari Moksham – dance Ballet
Dec. 30, 2009 Wednesday	9.30 a.m	Natya Kala Conference
	2.00 p.m	Trichur Brothers - Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal)	S.R. Rajasree (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
	4.30 p.m	Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan (Vocal)	Mysore M. Nagaraj (Violin), Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Shree Sundarkumar (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Anita Ratnam – Neo Bharatam
Dec. 31, 2009 Thursday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Natya Kala Conference Valedictory
	2.00 p.m	Nisha P. Rajagopal (Vocal)	V. Sanjeev (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
	4.30 p.m	T.M. Krishna (Vocal)	Mysore M. Manjunath (Violin), T.K. Murthy (Mridangam), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam)
	7.30 p.m	Vidhya Subramaniam – Bharatanatyam
Jan.1, 2010 Friday	7.00 a.m	Sengalipuram Brahmasri Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj & troupe (Namasankeerthanam)
	9.30 a.m	Dr. N. Ramani and R. Thyagarajan (Flute duet)	Tanjore Ramadas (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
	12 noon	SriChitra N. Rajaraman – Vocal
	2.00 p.m	Shankar Ramani (Vocal)	Kandadevi S. Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Tanjore Kumar (Mridangam), Srirangam Kannan (Morsing)
	4.30 p.m	Geetha Krishnamurthy (Veena)	Thirupathi M. Sudhakar (Mridangam), Nanganallur S. Swaminathan (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam (Vocal)	Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Melakaveri K. Balaji (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)
Jan.2, 2010 Saturday	9.30 a.m	T.N. Krishnan & Viji Natarajan (Violin Duet)	Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
	12 noon	Vidya Kalyanaraman (Vocal)	Srilakshmi Venkataramani (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
	2.00 p.m	Smitha Madhav (Vocal)	T. Hemamalini (Violin), Nellai A. Balaji (Mridangam)
	4.30 p.m	R.K. Shrikantan (Vocal) and N. Ravikiran (Chitraveena)	Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
	7.30 p.m	Yamini Reddy – Kuchipudi
Jan.3, 2010 Sunday	9.30 a.m	‘Sapta Raga, Sapta Thaala Raagamaalika - Valmiki Ramayanam’ of Lalgudi G. Jayaraman presented by Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin)
	12 noon	Divya Hariharan (Vocal)	M. Vijay (Violin), Madurai B. Sundar (Mridangam), Sai Subramaniam (Kanjira)
	2.00 p.m	B. Vijaygopal (Flute)	M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin), Tanjore Ramadas (Mridangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)
	4.00 p.m	Unveiling of D.K. Pattammal's Portrait and Tributes
	4.30 p.m	Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal)
	7.30 p.m	Laya Mudhra - Musical Ensemble by Thiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam
Jan.4, 2010 Monday	6.15 p.m	Vaishnavi Sainath - Bharathanatyam & Odissi
	7.30 p.m	Manjari Chandrasekar – Bharatanatyam
Jan. 5, 2010 Tuesday	6.15 p.m	Aishwarya Anand – Bharatanatyam
	7.30 p.m	Kerala Kalamandalam presents "Arunachala Kavirayar's Ramanatakam"
Jan.6, 2010 Wednesday	6.15 p.m	Shilpa Viswanathan – Bharatanatyam
	7.30 p.m	Paavai Nonbu thematic presentation by Dr. Padma Subramanyam
Jan. 7, 2010 Thursday	6.15 p.m	Abhimanyu Lal & Vitha Lal (Dance)
	7.30 p.m	Dominique Delorme (Dance)
Jan. 8, 2010 Friday	6.15 p.m	Smitha Madhav – Bharatanatyam
	7.30 p.m	Illeana Citaristi (Dance)
Jan.9. 2010 Saturday	6.15 p.m	Sudharma Vaidyanathan – Bharatanatyam
	7.30 p.m	Zakir Hussain "Ethiraja Vaibhavam" - Solo Dance Feature on 'Ramanujacharya'
Jan. 10, 2010 Sunday	6.15 p.m	Malavika Ragunathan – Bharatanatyam
	7.30 p.m	Ranjana Gaur (Dance)
Jan. 11, 2010 Monday	6.15 p.m	Divya Kasturi - Bharathanatyam / Kathak
	7.30 p.m	Dr. Alekhya Punjla (Dance)
Jan. 12,2010 Tuesday	6.15 p.m	Priya Venkatraman – Bharatanatyam
	7.30 p.m	Navtej Johar - thematic presentation : Meenakshi memudham Dhehi
Jan. 13, 2010 Wednesday	5 00 p.m	Pongal Nagaswara Isai Vizha – Inauguration
	6.30 p.m	Injikudi E.M. Subramanyam (Nadaswaram)	Mannargudi M.R. Vasudevan (Thavil), Nangoor Selvaganapathi (Thavil)
Jan. 14, 2010 Thursday	4.00 p.m	T.V.G. Ramanathan & Party (Saxophone)
	6.30 p.m	Mannargudi Sankaranarayanan (Nadaswaram)	Vedaranyam V.G. Balasubramanian (Thavil), Kovilur K.G. Kalyanasundaram (Thavil)
Jan. 15, 2010 Friday	4.00 p.m	Thirumeignanam T.K.R. Ayyappan & T.K.R. meenakshisundaram (Nadaswaram)	Kongampattu Murugaiyyan (Thavil), Ammapettai Parthiban (Thavil)
	6.30 p.m	Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone)	Praveen Gdkhinde (Flute), B. Harikumar (Mrdangam), Rajendra Nakod (Tabla)
Jan. 16, 2010 Saturday	4.00 p.m	Vyasarpadi Kothandaraman (Nadaswaram)	Thirukkadaiyur T.G. Babu (Thavil), Veliyambakkam V.M. Ganapathi (Thavil)
	6.30 p.m	Mambalam M.K.S. Siva (Nadaswaram)	Thiruvalaputhur T.A. Kaliyamurthy (Thavil), Thanjavur T.G. Govindarajan (Thavil)
Jan. 17, 2010 Sunday	4.00 p.m	Sithukkadu Murgavel (Nadaswaram)	Thiruvallikeni K. Sekar (Thavil)
	6.30 p.m	Thirupambaram Brothers - T.K.S. Swaminathan & T.K.S. meenakshisundaram (Nadaswaram)	Thirukarugavur Sivagurunathan (Thavil)