Concerts by the pond

Chennai has been experimenting music concerts at different venues lately.

It began at the Nageswara Rao Park in Mylapore. Now concerts happen at Anna Nagar Tower Park, CIT Colony Park, Sivan Park in K.K. Nagar area...

And Kalakshetra, the legendary arts centre has thought of a different ambiance. They created a pond around which granite steps and mandapams are constructed. Landscaping is done to bring about a feel of a pond in a traditional village.

Leela Samson, a veteran dancer, director of Kalakshetra who now wears another hat as Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Academy thought of this idea and went ahead with plans.

The pond is named as Padma Pushkarini after the 'dynamic founder member of Kalakshetra, Dr. D. Padmasini' Leela Samson says.

The work is still underway and expected to be completed in full and the space be ready for concerts in Feb.2011 to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Kalakshetra and the birthday of Rukmini Devi Arundale, the founder of the institution.

However, the almost-done space will host concerts of young performers during this December season.

A concert by T.M.Krishna was held on Nov. 29, to mark the opening of Padma Pushkarini for the season.

Though it was dark at 6.15 pm, the oil lamps put up by the students of Kalakshetra all around the space and the volunteers guiding the audience with a torch light, finding the steps and place to sit was not difficult.

As Krishna began the concert with 'Sri Naadadi Guruguho', he requested, 'No flash, please' to the photo enthusiasts, who tried to shoot from variuos dark corners. Yes, the only lit place was the stage. But Krishna could have felt the presence of huge audience from the sound of the applause he received after every alapana, song and swarakalpana!

The following concerts are scheduled at the Padma Pushkarini from December 21 to 31 from 5 pm to 6 pm. The concerts are free and open to all. Do drop by the pond, it is worth an experience.

Dec. 21, 2010

Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), Akkarai Sornalatha (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

Dec. 22, 2010

G. Ravikiran (Vocal), R. Sivakumar (Violin), Trivandrum Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam)

Dec. 23, 2010

Deekshitha V. (Vocal), Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), K. Parthasarathy (Mridangam)

Dec. 24, 2010

R. Sriram (Veena), Prashanth (Mridangam), Krishna (Ghatam)

Dec. 25, 2010

Brinda Manikavachakam (Vocal), K.P. Nandini (Violin), Srivanchiam Sriram (Mridangam)

Dec. 26, 2010

Sruthi Sagar (Flute), S. Rahul (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam)

Dec. 27, 2010

Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath (Vocal), Adithi Krishnaprakash (Violin), K.S. Ramana (Mridangam)

Dec. 28, 2010

Bharathsundar (Vocal), S. Rahul (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam)

Dec. 29, 2010

Ranjani Ramachandran (Hindustani Vocal), Vyasmurti Katti (Harmonium), Charudatta Phadke (Tabla)

Dec. 30, 2010

K. Vandana (Vocal), S.V. Krishna (Violin), K. Ramesh (Mridangam)

Dec. 31, 2010

Keerthana Vaidyanathan (Vocal), K.P. Nandini (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam)

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Carnatica's Samarpanam - 2010

The annual interactive thematic festival organised by Carnatica will be on from Dec. 1 to Dec.8, 2010.

The venue is Arkay Convention Centre, Oms Lakshana, 3rdFloor, R. H Road, (Above Jainsons Showroom, next to Bombay Halwa House), Mylapore, Chennai – 600004

The concerts are free and open to all.

For details, contact:9444018269/70/71
Visit: www.carnaticamusic.com / www.carnatica.com
Email: carnaticamusic@gmail.com / carnatica@carnatica.com

The schedule:

Dec. 1, 2010 - Wednesday

4.30pm: Inauguration
5.00pm: O.S.Thayagarajan,MysoreSrikanth, TiruvarurBhaktavatsalam, E.M.Subramaniam
7.00pm: SangitaKalanidhi R.K.Srikantan & RudrapatnamRamakanth, Dr.SriramParasuram, Srimushanam Raja Rao

Dec. 2, 2010 - Thursday

4.00pm: Dr. SriramParasuram (Sangeetha sarchai)
5.00pm: SugunaPurushothaman, V.V.S.Murari, Kallaidikurichi Sivakumar
7.00pm: ChitravinaRavikiran, M.A.Sundaresan, MannargudiEaswaran, Guruprasad

Dec. 3, 2010 - Friday

4.00pm: Jayalakshmi Sekar, V.Chellappa - Narration (Sangeetha sarchai)
5.00pm: MambalamSisters, Dr.R.Hemalatha, NellaiBalaji, Kanjira-K.S.Rangachari
7.00pm: Parur Quartet-M.S.Anantharaman, M.A.Sundaresan, M.A.Krishnaswamy,&
ParurAnanthakrishnan, K.V.Prasad

Dec. 4, 2010 - Saturday

4.00pm: AnilSrinivasan (Sangeetha Sarchai)
5.00pm: RudrapatnamBrothers (Theme-Krishna), NagaiSriram, MelakkaveriBalaji
7.00pm: T.N.Krishnan & VijiKrishnan(ViolinDuo), Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam, VaikkomGopalakrishnan

Dec. 5, 2010 - Sunday

4.00pm: Dr.PramilaGurumurthy - Marathi Harikatha Forms(Sangeetha sarchai)
5.00pm: P.VasanthaKumar(Veena), GuruvayurDorai, Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan
7.00pm: BombaySisters (CompositionsofDasakootas), Usha Rajagopal, K.R.Ganesh

Dec. 6, 2010 - Monday

4.00pm: M.A.Bhagirathy-DivyaPrabandams (Sangeetha sarchai)
5.00pm: Mahadevan Shankaranarayanan andParty
7.00pm: Dr.PantulaRama–RagamTaanamPallavi–SpecialConcert, M.S.N.Moorthy, ThanjavurMurugabhoopathy

Dec. 7, 2010 - Tuesday

4.00pm: S.Sowmya Theme: Art of Niraval Singing (Sangeetha sarchai)
5.00pm: CarnaticaBrothers, Violin–NagaiMuralidharan, Mridangam-MannargudiEaswaran
7.00pm: SangitaKalanidhi R.Vedavalli, Dr.R.Hemalatha, NeyveliNarayanan

Dec. 8, 2010 - Wednesday

4.00pm: S.R.JanakiRaman Compounding Select Group of Ragas with Two Or More Compositions (Sangeetha sarchai)
5.00pm: SaangeethaSivakumar andParty
7.00pm: SugunaVaradachari, Dr.M.Narmada, K.ArunPrakash

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Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru - 2010

A new concept of creating an atmosphere of Thiruvaiyaru in Chennai has been introduced by the Orchestra Lakshman Sruti in the year 2005 and a week-long non stop music is renedered by various artistes.

The venue is Kamarajar Arangam, Anna Salai, Teynampet, Chennai - 18

You can follow the latest news, change in schedules if any on the website -
http://www.lakshmansruthi.com/chennaiyil-thiruvaiyaru/2010/schedule-2010.asp

The schedule of concerts:

Dec. 18, 2010 - Saturday

3.00 p.m. Nadhaswaram – Injikudi Subramanyam
5.00 p.m. Pancha Ratna Kritis - led by P.S. Narayanaswamy
7.30 p.m. Nithyashree Mahadevan - Vocal

Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday

9.00 a.m. Salem Jayashree - Vocal
10.30 a.m. S. Mahathi - Vocal
1.00 p.m. Abimithra - Bharathanatyam
2.45 p.m. Ezhilarasi - Veena
4.45 p.m Priya Sisters - Vocal
7.30 p.m Neyveli Santhanagopalan - Vocal

Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday

9.00 a.m. Nirmala Rajasekar - Veena
10.30 a.m. Leela Samson - Bharathanatyam
1.00 p.m. Subhadra Marimuthu - Bharathanatyam
2.45 p.m. Harini - Vocal
4.45 p.m. T.V.Shankaranarayanan - Vocal
7.30 p.m. Unnikrishnan - Vocal

Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday

9.00 a.m. Lavanya Sundararaman - Vocal
10.30 a.m. Abhishek Raghuram - Vocal
1.00 p.m. Sushma - Vocal
2.45 p.m. Mahanadhi Shobana - Vocal
4.45 p.m. O S Arun - Vocal
7.30 p.m. Shiv Kumar Sharma - Santoor

Dec. 22, 2010 - Wednesday

9.00 a.m. K.P.Nandhini - Vocal
10.30 a.m. Rajhesh Vaidhya - Veena
1.00 p.m. Mahalakshmi - Bharathanatyam
2.45 p.m. Nandhini - Violin
4.45 p.m. Ranjani-Gayathri - Vocal
7.30 p.m. Kadri Gopalnath - Saxophone

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday

9.00 a.m. Udayalur Kalyanaraman - Nama Sangeerthanam
10.30 a.m. Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan - Vibrations - Ensemble
1.00 p.m. Madurai R Muralidharan - Bharathanatyam
2.45 p.m. Ashok Ramani - Vocal
4.45 p.m. Kumaresh-Ganesh - Violin
7.30 p.m. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Ravi Kiran - Slide Guitar - Chitra Veena (Jugalbandhi)

Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday

9.00 a.m. Vaaraki - Vocal
10.30 a.m. Sriram Parasuram & Anoorada Sriram - Jugalbandhi
1.00 p.m. Meenakshi Raghavan - Bharathanatyam
2.45 p.m. Carnatica Brothers - Vocal
4.45 p.m. S.Sowmya - Vocal
7.30 p.m. Sudha Ragunathan - Vocal

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday

9.00 a.m. Krithika Natarajan - Vocal
10.30 a.m. Sikkil Gurucharan - Vocal
1.00 p.m. Dr. Ganesh - Vocal
2.45 p.m. Shoba Chandrasekar - Vocal
4.45 p.m. Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan - Vocal
7.30 p.m. S.P.Balasubramaniyam - Vocal

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Nadopasana 2010 - from Trichur

Though the December season in Chennai comes alive, there are many events that happen in other places prior to this. technology today helps all over the world to watch these events sitting comfortably in your chair in front of your desk.

One such event is being held at Trichur, Kerala by Agni Academy, titled NADOPASANA 2010.

This morning at 10 o'clock there is a live webcast of the programme, by Sangita Kalanihi Smt.R.Vedavalli.

Tune into www.agniacademy.com for a live webcast from Trichur, Annamanda, Kerala.

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Jaya TV & Maximum Media's Margazhi Maha Utsavam - 2010

One of the popular events of the season, which is later telecast by Jaya TV is the Margazhi Maha Utsavam.
This year's concerts are held from Dec. 1 to 15, 2010

The venue is Kumararajah Muthiah Hall, Chettinad Vidyashram School, Near R.A. Puram Ayyappan Temple, Chennai - 28.

The concerts are open to all and free entry. However, you can occupy a seat only if you are an early bird, since the concerts attract a lot of rasikas.

The schedule of concerts:

Dec. 1, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Inaugural concert - Nadhaswara Thavil Isai
Tirukovilur Babu & Kumar - Nadhaswaram, Thanjavur T.R.Govindarajan - Spl. Thavil
6.30 p.m - 'Thathvam' - Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad and Ravikumar - spread the messages of Saint Composers
S. Varadarajan - Violin, Thanjavur Murugaboopathy - Mridangam, S.V. Ramani - Ghatam

Dec. 2, 2010

5.00 p.m. - 'Ramanamame' - Bharat Sundhar (winner of JayaTV's Carnatic music Idol title) - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Krishnanudan Naan' - Abhishek Raghuram - sings in praise of the Yashodha Putra
Mysore Srikanth - Violin, Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam, Anan - Tabla

Dec. 3, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Weekend special concert
Lakshmi Rangarajan & Subhiksha - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Ragas of Thyagaraja' - Ganesh and Kumaresh - a soulful saga with strings
Patri satishkumar - Mridangam, Trichy Krishna - Ghatam

Dec. 4, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Weekend special concert
S. Saketha Raman - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Ganesha Charanam' - Nithyasree Mahadevan - worships the Maha Ganapathi
M.A. Krishnaswamy - Violin, I. Siva Kumar - Mridangam, H. Sivarama Krishnan - Ghatam, Malaikottai Deenadayalu - Mridangam

Dec. 5, 2010

4.15 p.m. - Sunday Special Presentation
Utsava Sampradaya Krithis presented by S. Sowmya. Sriranjani Santhanagopalan, Bavya & Brinda Manickavasagam
6.30 p.m. - 'Namahshivabyaam' - Aruna Sayeeram - presents a holy journey
H.N.Bhaskar - Violin, J. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, S. Karthick - Ghatam

Dec. 6, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Dr. R. Ganesh - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Pa Ratham Kondu Bharatham Bhavani vandha Bharathi' - Neyveli Santhanagopalan - celebrates the Mahakavi
V.V.S. Murari - Violin, Neyveli Venkatesh - Mridangam, Venkataraman - Kanjira, Srirangam Kannan - Morsing

Dec. 7, 2010

5.00 p.m. - V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Ayur Arogyam Iswaryam' - N. Vijay Siva - emphasises the essentials
R.K. Sriramkumar - Violin, N. Manoj Siva - Mridangam

Dec. 8, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Bhushany Kalyanaraman - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Shivanum Shivanum' - P. Unnikrishnan - glorifies the Kailasamoorthy
Embar Kannan - Violin, Mannargudi Easwran - Mridangam, B.S. Purushothaman - Kanjira

Dec. 9, 2010

5.00 p.m. - R. Surya Prakash - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Bhakthi Ganam - Tatva Ganam' - Priya Sisters Haripriya and Shanmukhapriya - present a double treat
M.A.Krishnaswamy - Violin, Neyveli Skandasubramaniam - Mridangam, Kanjira - B.S.Purushothaman - Kanjira

Dec. 10, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Weekend special concert
Nisha Rajagopal - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Appanum Chuppanum' - Ranjani & Gayathri - sing the glory of Lord Shiva and his sons
H.N. Bhaskar - Violin, N.Manoj Siva - Mridangam, S. Karthick - Ghatam

Dec. 11, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Weekend special concert
Carnatica Brothers - K.N. Sasikiran and P.Ganesh - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Bharathi Moovar' - Sanjay Subrahmanyan - remembers Kavikunjara Bharathi, Mazhavai Chidambara Bharathi & Suddhananda Bharathi

Dec. 12, 2010

4.15 p.m. - Sunday special concert
'Oothukaadu Venkata Kavi' - presented by Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Prasanna Venkataraman, Deepika, Anahitha
6.30 p.m. - 'Navavidha Bhakthi' - Sudha Raghunathan - explores the Nine Dimensions of Bhakthi
Embar Kannan - Violin, Patri satishkumar - Mridangam, R. Raman - Morsing

Dec. 13, 2010

5.00 p.m. - B. Balasubramaniam - Vocal
6.30 p.m. - 'Kaalam' - S. Sowmya - travels through timeless classiciam
Embar Kannan - Violin, Neyveli R. Narayanan - Mridangam, K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira

Dec. 14, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Savita Narasimhan - Vocal
5.30 p.m. - 'Vel Muruga' O.S. Arun - embellishes the glory of Lord Muruga
M.R. Gopinath - Violin, B. Sivaraman - Mridangam, S.Ganapathi & Kiran Kumar - Tabla, Krishnan - Harmonium, M. Kalaiselvam - Thalam

Dec. 15, 2010

5.00 p.m. - Valedictory special concert
Remembering Brinda, Mukta, MSS, DKP, MLV - Charumathi Ramachandran and Subhasree Ramachandran - Vocal

6.30 p.m. - 'Padmavathi Kalyanam' - Visaka Hari - Harikatha
B. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, S.J. Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam

The above concerts will be telecast on Jaya TV from Dec. 15, 2010 in the morning and evening. Please check for the actual timings.

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Honour for Guru Adyar K.Lakshman

The Association of Bharatanatyam Artistes of India (ABHAI) is celebrating its 23rd annual day on November 28, 4 p.m., at Narada Gana Sabha, TTK Road. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti presides.

Chief guest Mrs. Y.G. Parthasarathy will present the ‘Natya Kalanidhi' award to guru Adyar K. Lakshman.

The Smt. Usha Srinivasan Endowment Award and Gaandharva Nipuna will be given to ‘Flute' Bhagyalakshmi; and the Dr. Nirmala Ramachandran Endowment Award will be presented to S. Shivakumar.

On the occasion, a DVD titled ‘Rajarajeswaram 1000', produced by Swathi Soft Solutions, will be released by Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti and the first copy will be received by R. Krishnaswami, secretary, Narada Gana Sabha.

Also, the dance gurus who conducted monthly workshops, Raghupathy, Rhadha, Melattur Natarajan, Gopika Varma and Padma Subrahmanyam, will be honoured on the occasion.

At 5.30 p.m., ABHAI members will present the items they learnt at the monthly workshops.

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The Mylapore Fine Arts Club - 2010

One of the early sabhas of Madras, the Mylapore Fine Arts Club hosts concerts in the second part of December, followed by a dance festival in early January every year.
Though the auditorium does not rank with The Music Academy or Narada Gana Sabha, the concerts hosted here are favourite ones for the rasikas and prestigious ones for the performing artistes.

For season tickets, contact The Mylapore Fine Arts Club at No. 45, Musiri Subramaniam Salai, Mylapore, Chennai 600004
Phone: 24997755, 24430055

The schedule

Dec. 11, 2010 - Saturday

3.00 p.m. - K. Kumaraswamy (Saxophone), Melakaveri K. Thiagarajan (Violin), Mylai Ganjendran (Thavil), Thirunageswaram S. Manikandan (Mridangam), Papanasam S. Sethuraman (Kanjira)
5.00 p.m. - Inauguration
7.00 p.m. - Pallavi Sriram (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 12, 2010 – Sunday

9.30 a.m. - S. Sundar (Vocal), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Guruvayur Dorai (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Niveditha Narayanan (Vocal), Vidya Raja (Violin), Raja Subramaniam (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Sushma Somasekar (Vocal), Kovai Chandran (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Amrutha Venkatesh (Vocal), Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - Hyderabad Sisters Lalitha and Haripriya (Vocal), Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi (Violin), Melakaveri K. Balaji (Mridangam)

Dec. 13, 2010 – Monday

9.30 a.m. - S. Srinivasan (Veena), Serthalai Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Trichy K. Murali (Mridangam)
12.00 noon - Superrna Sankaran (Hindustani Vocal), Babu (Harmonium), Chandrajit (tab)
1.30 p.m. - Vasudha Ravi (Vocal), Srilakshmi Venkatramani (Violin), T.R.S. Manikandan (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - K. Sathyanarayanan (Keyboard), M. Rajiv (Violin), Kumbakonam K. Swaminathan (Mridangam), Hariharasubramaniam (Ghatam)
6.00 p.m. - Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 14, 2010 – Tuesday

9.30 a.m. - T.V. Ramprasadh (Vocal), V.L. Kumar (Violin), Prapancham Ravindran (Mridangam), Prapancham Shylendran (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Arvind Sridhar (Vocal), Raghava Simhan (Violin), G. Kirthivasan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Nandamuni Gayathri (Vocal), C.K. Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Manikudi Chandrasekaran (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Swaminathan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Nellai A. Balaji (Mridangam), Nanganallur Swaminathan (Ghatam)
6.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), K.R. Ganesh (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 15, 2010 – Wednesday

9.30 a.m. - Madurai R. Sundar (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Ramya Kannan (Vocal), Giridhari (Violin), Srivanchaim Sriram (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Akshay Padmanaban (Vocal), Akkarai Swarnalatha (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Mohan Santhanam (Vocal), Bombay Anand (Violin), Madipakkam Suresh (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - Priya Sisters : Shanmukhapriya & Haripriya (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin), P. Sathishkumar (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Ghatam)

Dec. 16, 2010 – Thursday

9.30 a.m. - T.V. Sundaravalli (Vocal), V.V. Ravi (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Chaitrra Sairam (Vocal), Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), Sumeshnarayanan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Prasanna Venkatraman (Vocal), M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - K. Gayathri (Vocal), Ranjani Ramakrishnan (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - Aruna Sairam (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), Dr.S. Karthik (Ghatam)

Dec. 17, 2010 – Friday

9.30 a.m. - R. Surya Prakash (Vocal), B. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
12.00 noon – K. Sriram (Vocal), Pudukottai Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), Gajendra Ganesan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Poornima Krishnan (Vocal), Srividya R.S. Iyer (Violin), Varun Ramaswamy (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. – L. Athira (Violin), S. Venkataramanan (Kanjira)
6.00 p.m. - Malladi Brothers : Sriram Prasad & Ravikumar (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Ghatam)

Dec. 18, 2010 – Saturday

9.30 a.m. - Carnatica Brothers : K.N. Sashikiran & P. Ganesh – Vocal, M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), V. Kamalakar Rao (Mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Brinda Manickavasakam (Vocal), R. Anand (Violin), L. Subramanian (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - J.A. Jayant (Flute), Jayanthi Kesav (Violin), Mannargudi N. Subramanian (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. – S. Mahati (Vocal), Melakaveri K. Thiagarajan (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), Krishnaswamy (Kanjira)
6.00 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), Mysore M. Manjunath (Violin), Thiruvarur P. Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (Kanjira)

Dec. 19, 2010 – Sunday

9.30 a.m. - Madurai G.S. Mani (Vocal), M.R. Gopinath (Violin), Madhirimangalam S. Swaminathan (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Bhavya Hari (Vocal), Srividya R.S. Iyer (Violin), K. Parthasarathy (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Aparna Thiagarajan (Vocal), Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), Mayavaram Muralidharan (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Nisha Rajagopal (Vocal), Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), Trivandrum Balaji (Mridangam), N. Rajaram (Ghatam)
6.00 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), Dr.R. Hemalatha (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), Udupi Sridhar (Ghatam)

Dec. 20, 2010 – Monday

9.30 a.m. – S. Saketharaman (Vocal), Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi (Violin), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira)
12.00 noon - Bharathi Ramasubban (Vocal), G. Badrinath (Violin), Guru Bharadwaj (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Aishwarya Vidya Ragunath (Vocal), Athithi Krishnaprakash (Violin), K.S. Ramana (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Shubha Ganesan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Erode Nagaraj (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - Sikkil Gurucharan (Vocal), Mysore M. Nagaraj (Violin), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 21, 2010 – Tuesday

9.30 a.m. - Dr.R. Ganesh (Vocal), Madurai S. Balasubramaniam (Violin), Umayalpuram Mali (Mridangam)
12.00 noon - K. Lakshmi (Vocal), H.V. Raghuram (Violin), Guru Bharadwaj (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Sreeusha & Sreesha (Mandolin), Umayalpuram V. Kalyanaraman (Violin), G. Ravichandran (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Sankari Krishnan (Vocal), Padma Shankar (Violin), Karukuruchi Mohanaraman (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - Gayathri Girish (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 22, 2010 – Wednesday

9.30 a.m. - Lakshmi Rangarajan (Vocal), Pakala Ramadas (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Shiv Subramaniam (Vocal), Thirumarugal T.S. Dinesh Kumar (Violin), S. Sreeduth (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - K. Dharini (Vocal), K.J. Dilip (Violin), Rajna Swaminathan (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. – S.M. Vilasini (vocal), S.P. Ananthapadmanabha (Violin), Neyveli Ramkumar (Mridangam)
6.15 p.m. - M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Dr.M. Narmada & M.S.G. Sekar (Violin Trio), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Violin), N. Guruprasad (Mridangam)

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday

9.30 a.m. - Geetha Bennett (Veena), S. Balashankar (Violin), B.S. Purushothaman (Mridangam)
12.00 noon - Pallavi Prasanna (Vocal), Vittal Rangan (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Visalakshi Shankar (Vocal), Sandeep Bharadwaj (Violin), Mysore Vadiraj (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - V. Shankaranarayanan (Vocal), Anayampatti G. Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan (Vocal), M. Chandrasekaran (Violin), Vellore Ramabadran (Mridangam), B. Srisundarkumar (Ghatam)

Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday

9.30 a.m. - Mambalam Sisters : R. Vijayalakshmi & R. Chitra – Vocal, Dr.R. Hemalatha (Violin), Nellai A. Balaji (Mridangam), K.S. Rangachari (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Rithvik Raja (Vocal), K.P. Nandini (Violin), Palakad A.M. Harinarayanan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Swarna Rethas (Vocal), Arunachala Karthik (Violin), Ambur Padmanabhan (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Salem Sriram (Vocal), T.M. Prashanth (Violin), Rajna Swaminathan (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - Bombay Jayashri (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Ghatam)

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday

9.30 a.m. - N. Ramani (Flute), Babu Raghuraman (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam)
12.00 noon - J.B. Keerthana (Vocal), Sangeetha (Violin), B. Srivatsan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan (Vocal), Kaushik Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), Tanjore K. Praveenkumar (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Shobana Vignesh (Vocal), A.G. Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)
6.00 p.m. - U. Shrinivas (Mandolin), S.D. Sridharan (Violin), Yella Venkateswara Rao (Mridangam), S.V. Ramani (Ghatam), Srirangam S. Kannan (mor)

Dec. 26, 2010 – Sunday

9.30 a.m. - Sreevalsan J Menon (Vocal), Nagai R. Sriram (Violin), Tanjore Ramadas (Mridangam)
12.00 noon - Roopa Mahadevan (Vocal), Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), Rajesh Srinivasan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), Athithi Krishnaprakash (Violin), Tanjore K. Praveenkumar (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers : Ramkumar Mohan & Srikrishna Mohan (Vocal), V.V. Ravi (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), D.V. Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)
6.00 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), R. Raman (Kanjira)

Dec. 27, 2010 – Monday

9.30 a.m. - S.P. Ramh (Vocal), Pakala Ramadas (Violin), Umayalpuram Mali (Mridangam)
12.00 noon – V. Sowmyasri (Vocal), S.V. Sudharshan (Violin), Calcutta Venkat (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Ramakrishna Murthy (Vocal), Akkarai Swarnalatha (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - C.S Sajeev (Vocal), N.C. Madhav (Violin), Kuchibatla Sai Giridhar (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - M.K. Sankaran Namboodri (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Guruvayur Dorai (Mridangam), Pudukottai N. Ramachandran (Ghatam)

Dec. 28, 2010 – Tuesday

9.30 a.m. - Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar (Flute), Ranjani Ramakrishnan (Violin), Rajesh Srinivasan (Mridangam), Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)
12.00 noon – N.S. Aruna (Vocal), Shradha Ravindran (Violin), G. Kirthivasan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - N. Bhairavi & N. Malavi (Vocal), R. Rahul (Violin), B. Srivatsan (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. – D.B. Ashvin (Vocal), Nishanth Chandran (Violin), Trivandrum Balaji (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Anitha Guha’s disciples present Mahadevam Mahasenam – dance feature

Dec. 29, 2010 – Wednesday

9.30 a.m. - Kunnakudy M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), M.R. Gopinath (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), Dr.S. Karthik (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - V. Venkatanagarajan (Vocal), T.S. Dinesh Kumar (Violin), K.J. Vineeth (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Subhiksha Rangarajan (Vocal), Karur Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Manasi Prasad (Vocal), Jayanthi Kesav (Violin), Toronto Gowrishankar (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. - Visaka Hari – Harikatha

Dec. 30, 2010 – Thursday

9.30 a.m. - Booshany Kalyanaraman (Vocal), Kalyani Shankar (Violin), A.S. Ranganathan (Mridangam)
12.00 noon - Niranjana Srinivasan (Vocal), K. Gokul (Violin), R. Ramkumar (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. – K. Bharatsundar (Vocal), M. Rajiv (Violin), Harinarayanan (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Mysore Chandan Kumar (Flute), H.M. Smitha (Violin), B.C. Manjunath (Mridangam), Udupi Srikanth (Ghatam)
6.00 p.m. – P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal), S. Varadharajan (Violin), Trichy Harikumar (Mridangam), V. Suresh (Ghatam)

Dec. 31, 2010 – Friday

9.30 a.m. - Sriram Gangadharan (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), K.A. Saravanan (Mridangam), Papanasam S. Sethuraman (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - S.R. Mytreyi (Vocal), R. Priyamvadaa (Violin), R. Ramkumar (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - V. Deepika (Vocal), Vittal Rangan (Violin), Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - U.P.Raju & Nagamani (Mandolin), M. Ravichandra (Violin), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam)
6.00 p.m. – S. Sowmya (Vocal), R.K. Sriramkumar (Violin), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam), Udupi Sridhar (Ghatam)

Jan. 1, 2011, Saturday

9.30 a.m. - Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin), Trichy S. Sankaran (Violin), V. Suresh (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. – S. Kasturirangan (Vocal), R. Ambikaprasad (Violin), M.S. Varadhan (Mridangam), Nerkunam S. Shankar (Ghatam)
6.00 p.m. – K.J. Yesudas (Vocal), Nagai R. Muralidharan (Violin), Tiruvarur P. Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), Tirupanithura Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

Jan. 2, 2011, Sunday

9.30 a.m. - Chinmaya Sisters : Uma & Radhika (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Papanasam S. Sethuraman (Ghatam)
12.00 noon - Duddu Radhika (Vocal), Apporva Krishna (Violin), Delhi Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Harish (Vocal), Roopa Rajagopal (Violin), Thillaisthanam R. Suriyanarayanan (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Savita Narasimhan (Vocal), Ranjani Ramakrishnan (Violin), Mannarkoil J. Balaji (Mridangam)
5.45 p.m. - Yazhini Rajakulasingam (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Srinidhi Sundar (Bharathanatyam)

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Narada Gana Sabha

Narada Gana Sabha, one of the main sabhas hosts music, dance and drama events during the December festival. The concerts held at the Mini hall and the concerts at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. are open to all. The evening events are usually ticketed. Also the drama tickets are sold out well in advance.

Contact Narada Gana Sabha t 314, T.T.K. Road, Chennai 600018
Phone: 24993201, 24990850

The schedule of concerts:

Dec. 15, 2010 - Wednesday

6.00 p.m. - Inauguration

7.00 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone), A. Kanyakumari (Violin), Haridwaramangalam A.K. Palanivel (Tavil), Bangalore N. Amrit (Kanjira), Bangalore Rajasekhar (Morsing)

Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - V.K Raman (Flute), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), Trisoor Narendran (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m. – K. Vandana (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), S. Sudharsan (m

2.00 p.m. - Salem Sriram (Vocal), R. Sathishkumar (Violin), Thirupathi M. Sudhakar (Mridangam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Bhavya Balasubramaniam (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - O.S. Thiagarajan (Vocal), V.V.S. Murari (Violin), Thiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam (Mridangam)

7.30 p.m. - Kalakshetra troupe – Bharathanatyam

Dec. 17, 2010 - Friday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. – Dr..R. Ganesh (Vocal), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), A.S. Ranganathan (Mridangam), A.S. Shankar (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m. - Niranjana Srinivasan (Vocal), Thirumarugal S. Dineshkumar (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Subhashri Ramachandran (Vocal), Meera Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), Delhi S. Sairam (Mridangam), Srirangam S. Ravikrishnan (Ghatam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Lavanya Ananth (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal), Akkarai Subhalakshmi (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam), Tirupoonithura Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. - A. Kanyakumari and Embar S. Kannan (Violin Duet), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira)

Dec. 18, 2010 - Saturday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Abishek Raghuram (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m. - Subhiksha Rangarajan (Vocal), V. Giridhari (Violin), Arthavan Selvanathan (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Aparna Balaji (Vocal), Kalyani Shankar (Violin), Tanjore K. Praveenkumar (Mridangam)

Main Hall

10.00 a.m. - Kathadi Ramamurthy’s Stage Creations - Neenga Yar Pakkam – Drama

2.00 p.m. - Lakshmi Ramaswami - Tirumalai Andavar Kuravanji (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - S. Sowmya (Vocal), R.K. Sriramkumar (Violin), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

7.30 p.m. - Malavika Sarukkai (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Sangeetha Swaminathan (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), Nellai A. Balaji (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m. - Savitha Sreeram (Vocal), Meera Rajkumar (Violin), Rajkumar Anantharaman (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters - R. Vijayalakshmi & R. Chitra (Vocal), Dr.R. Hemalatha (Violin), Nellai A. Balaji (Mridangam), K.s. Rangachari (Kanjira)

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - S.Ve. Shekher’s Yaamirukka Bhayamen - Drama

2.00 p.m. - Vidya Subramaniam (Bharathanatyam)

4.25 p.m. – K.J. Yesudas (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. - Kalyanapuram R. Aaravamudhachariar (Harikatha), Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), Melakaveri Balaji (Mridangam)

Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Booshany Kalyanaraman (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswami (Violin), T.R. Sundaresan (Mridangam), Nergunam Shankar (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m. - V. Deepika (Vocal), Parur M.S. Anantharaman (Violin), A.V. Manikandan (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Nisha Rajagopal (Vocal), Bengaluru Balu Raghuraman (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam), N. Rajaraman (Ghatam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Priya Murle (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal), S. Varadarajan (Violin), Neyveli Venkatesh (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. - Pantula Rama (Vocal), M.S.N. Murthy (Violin), V.V. Ramanamurthy (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Geetha Bennett (Veena), S. Balashankar (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m. - Visalakshi Shankar (Vocal), G. Rajesh (Violin), L. Subramanian Srivatsa (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. – K. Gayathri (Vocal), Nishanth Chandran (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Mythili Prakash (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - T.N. Seshagopalan (Vocal), Nagai R. Sriram (Violin), Guruvayur Dorai (Mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. Kunnakudy M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), Tanjore K. Murugabhoopathi (Mridangam), B. Shreesundarkumar (Kanjira)

Dec. 22, 2010 - Wednesday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Sriram Gangadharan (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), A.S. Ranganathan (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)

12.30 p.m. - Balaji Chidambaram (Mandolin), G. Badrinath (Violin), T.R.S. Manikandan (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Asha Ramesh (Vocal), Akkarai Sornalatha (Violin), M.S. Venkatasubramanian (Mridangam), Balaji Chandran (Ghatam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Meenakshi Srinivasan (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad & Ravikumar (Vocal), Mysore Nagaraj (Violin), Thiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. - Priyadarshini Govind (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Lakshmi Rangarajan (Vocal), Dr.R. Hemalatha (Violin), Melakaveri Balaji (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m. - Sidharth Sriram (Vocal), R. Gokulakrishna (Violin), Sanjay Subramanian (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - K. Krishnakumar and Binny Krishnakumar (Vocal Duet), B.V. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), P. Kirupakaran (UK) (Mridangam), Master Sai Nivedan (Australia) (Kanjira)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Uma B. Ramesh (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - Aruna Sairam (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), S.V. Ramani (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. - Vyjayanthimala Bali - Sita Vislesha Thrayam (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - R. Surya Prakash (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Mannargudi A. Eswaran (Mridangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m. - Harish (Vocal), Kaushik Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), Trivandrum N. Hariharan (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Amrutha Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), B. Anantha Krishnan (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Jyotsna Jagannathan (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayatri (Vocal), Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira)

7.30 p.m. - Shobana (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam (Vocal), Avaneeswaram S.R. Vinu (Violin), Trivandram Balaji (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)

12.30 p.m. – S. Saindavi (Vocal), Arunachala Kartick (Violin), Madurai B. Sundar (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena), R. Ambika Prasad (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), D.V. Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)

Main Hall

10.00 a.m. - Priyamudan Appa – Drama by C.V. Chandramohan

4.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Shanmukhapriya & Haripriya (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswami (Violin), Neyveli Skanda Subramaniam (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira)

7.30 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin), Trichy Harikumar (Mridangam), G. Guruprasanna (Kanjira)

Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - T.N.S. Krishna (Vocal), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), R. Ramesh (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m. - Sumathi Krishnan (Vocal), Anuthama Murali (Violin), T. Karthik (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - V. Shankaranarayanan (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Main Hall

10.00 a.m. - United Visuals’ Plastic Kadavul - Drama

2.00 p.m. - Narthaki Nataraj (Bharathanatyam)

4.25 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswami (Violin), Patri Sathish Kumar (Mridangam), Udupi Sridhar (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers - K.N. Sashikiran & P. Ganesh (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), Mannargudi A. Eswaran (Mridangam)

Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. – Dr. B. Vijayagopal (Flute), Mysore Srikanth (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m. - Sri Vani (Veena), Trichy B. Swaminathan (Mridangam), Balaji Chandran (Ghatam)

2.00 p.m. - T.K.V. Ramanujacharyalu (Vocal), Komanduri Krishna (Violin), M. Ravichandra (Australia) (Mridangam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Sunanda Narayanan (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers - D. Raghavachari and D. Seshachari (Vocal), V.V. Ravi (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam)

7.30 p.m. - Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 28, 2010 - Tuesday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Shankar Ramani (Vocal), Pakkala Ramadas (Violin), Manakkal Sriram (Mridangam), Nergunam S. Sankar (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m. - Bhargavi Ganesh (Vocal), Sandeep Bharadwaj (Violin), Adambakkam J. Aravind (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Chinmaya Sisters - Uma & Radhika (Vocal), Melakaveri Thiagarajan (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Nanganallur S. Swaminathan (Ghatam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Kirti Ramgopal (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - U. Shrinivas & U. Rajesh (Mandolin), Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli (Violin), Tanjore Murugabhoopathi (Mridangam), S.V. Ramani (Ghatam), Srirangam Kannan (Morsing)

7.30 p.m. - Sikkil Gurucharan (Vocal), Mysore Manjunath (Violin), Arjun Kumar (Mridangam), Guruprasanna (Kanjira)

Dec. 29, 2010 - Wednesday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Vasundhara Rajagopal (Vocal), Dr. Jyotsna Srikanta (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m. - Roopa Mahadevan (Vocal), Thirumarugal T.S. Ganeshumar (Violin), Kiran Virjamoori (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Shantala Subramanyam (Vocal), Dr.R. Hemalatha (Violin), Parupalli Phalgun (Mridangam), Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Ramya Ramnarayanan - Lalgudi's Lavanya Margam : thematic Bharathanatyam

4.30 p.m. - O.S. Arun (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Thiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira)

Dec. 30, 2010 - Thursday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Shertalai Renganatha Sharma (Vocal), S.D. Sridhar (Violin), H.S. Sudhindra (Mridangam), A.S. Shankar (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m. - B. Bhavyalakshmi (Vocal), Akkarai Sornalatha (Violin), Master Sai Nivedan (Australia), (Mridangam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Dominique Delorme (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - Bombay Jayashri (Vocal), Embar Kannan (Violin), Patri Sathishkumar (Mridangam), Udupi Shridhar (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. - Rajeshwari Sainath & Troupe (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 31, 2010 - Friday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m. – R. Kashyap Mahesh (Vocal), K.P. Nandini (Violin), Sriram Natarajen (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan (Vocal), Papanasam K. Gokul (Violin), Thanjavur Kumar (Mridangam), D.V. Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Sheejith Nambiyar and Parvathi Nambiyar (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal), Embar Kannan (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), R. Raman (Morsing)

7.30 p.m. - Suma Sudhindra (Pancha Veena)

Jan. 1, 2011 - Saturday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - B. Kannan (Veena), Tanjore K. Murugabhoopathi (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam), B. Sreesundarkumar (Kanjira), N. Sundar (Morsing)

12.30 p.m. - Sumithra Vasudev (Vocal), V. Raghul Srinivasan (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Swarna Rethas (Vocal), M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. - Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - Crazy Mohan’s Meesai Aanalum Manaivi - Drama

7.30 p.m. - Padma Subrahmanyam (Bharathanatyam)

Jan. 2, 2011 - Sunday

Mini Hall

10.00 a.m. - Seerkazhi G. Sivachidambaram & party (Vocal)

12.30 p.m. – Ranganathan Iyer (Vocal), Shanker Rajan (Violin), Villangudi Sivakumar (Mridangam)

2.00 p.m. - Shreyas Narayanan (Vocal), Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam)

Main Hall

2.00 p.m. – J. Surya Narayana Murthy (Bharathanatyam)

4.30 p.m. - T.M. Krishna (Vocal), T.K.V. Ramanujacharyalu (Violin), Guru Kaaraikkudi R. Mani (Mridangam), V. Suresh (Ghatam)

7.30 p.m. - Charulatha Mani (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), N. Sundar (Tabla & Morsing)

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Bhavan's music festival sets the mood for the 'season'

The East Mada street on Mylapore is always bright with lights of small businesses competing with each other. On the Karthigai Deepam day this year, it was brighter with serial bulbs glowing on the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan building running from the top.

It was the inaugural of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Sangeet Naatya Utsav.

The chief guests M. Narendra, Chairman and Managing Director, Indian Overseas Bank, T. S. Krishnamurthy , Former Chief Election Commissioner and chairman of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Chennai Kendra and Preetha Reddy, MD, Apollo Hospital spoke about their association with the Bhavan's Chennai Kendra and the contribution of the kendra in promotion of arts and culture.

The closer you got to the dais, the brighter it was. The artistes Sudha Ragunathan and T.M. Krishna added bright colours that evening.

These two artistes were honoured with awards instituted in memory of industrialist and arts patron P. Obul Reddy and P.Gnanamba this year at Bhavan. Sudha felt special being the first recipient of the award.

On the occasion, Bhavan felicitated three senior vidvans - Clarinet maestro A.K.C. Natarajan, vocalist and teacher Chenglepet Ranganathan and mridangam vidwan Guruvayur Dorai. Bhavan also honoured three young artistes at the inaugural.

Until the felicitations were over, the late comers and those who came just to listen to T.M. Krishna's concert after the 'speeches' at the inauguration were asked to climb up to the balcony or choose to view the CCTVs set up outside the hall.

More photos ...

But when Krishna opened his concert with the Dhanyasi kriti 'Meena Lochana' in a tad fast pace, the rasikas got ready to gatecrash. And the audience were willingly standing and listening to Krishna after that.
He paused during the niraval and attributed his niraval singing skills to the master Chenglepet Ranganathan.

The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan concerts draw full house since they are 'free' concerts and held at the heart of Mylapore.

Another interesting watch at the venue is the painting exhibition by H. N. Suresh on Rasi & Nakshatra. Even if you are not going up to the balcony for the concerts, it is worth a climb for this exhibition put up on the lobby and in the adjacent room upstairs.

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Narada Gana Sabha Mini Festival - 2010

A popular sabha and auditorium on TTK Road has a Pre Festival series of concerts and a December Music and Dance Festival every year during Decmeber. This makes a full 'December Season' that overflows to January.

All the concerts are open to rasikas.
This festival is followed by the December Music Festival from Dec. 15 onwards.

The schedule:

Dec. 3, 2010 - Friday

4.30p.m. - Lalitha Mohan (Vocal), Roopa Natesan (Violin), Uzhavoor P.K. Babu (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan (Vocal), S.P. Ananthapadmanabha (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), R.M. Deenadayalu (Morsing)

Dec. 4, 2010 - Saturday

4.30 p.m - G. Ravikiran (Vocal), Trichy Govindarajan (Violin), M.S. Venkatasubramaniam (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Raji Gopalakrishnan (Vocal), Akkarai Subhalakshmi (Violin), Bangalore Rajakesari (Mridangam)

Dec. 5, 2010 - Sunday

4.25 p.m. - Shreya Devnath (Violin), Palayamkottai B. Gururagavendra (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekara Sarma (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Geetha Raja (Vocal), Padma Shankar (Violin), Mannarkoil J. Balaji (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 6, 2010 - Monday

4.30 p.m. - B. Muthukumar (Vocal), Melakaveri Thiagarajan (Violin), Melakaveri J. Balaji (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Prema Rangarajan (Vocal), Padma Shankar (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)

Dec. 7, 2010 - Tuesday

4.30 p.m. - Dr. Radha Bhaskar (Vocal), Anayampatti G. Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - C. Sukanya (Vocal), R. Sathishkumar (Violin), Neyveli Ramkumar (Mridangam)

Dec. 8, 2010 - Wednesday

4.30 p.m. - Mohan Santhanam (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Erode Nagarajan (Mridangam), Nanganallur Swaminathan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Geetha Rajashekar (Vocal), V.V.S. Murari (Violin), Tanjore Subramaniam (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)

Dec. 9, 2010 - Thursday

4.30 p.m. - Sankara Prakash Bonala (Veena), V.L. Kumar (Violin), R. Ramesh (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Iyer Brothers - Ramnath Iyer and Gopinath Iyer (Veena), Mudhra Bhaskar (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 10, 2010 - Friday

4.30 p.m. - Amritha Murali (Vocal), Padma Shankar (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Premeela Gurumurthy (Vocal), Poorna Vaidyanathan (Violin), Mohanakrishnan (Mridangam)

Dec. 11, 2010 - Saturday

4.30 p.m. - Calcutta Srividya (Vocal), V.V. Ravi (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar (Mridangam), Srirangam Ravikrishnan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Dr. M.Narmada (Violin), Delhi S. Sairam (Mridangam), S. Venkataramanan (Kanjira)

Dec. 12, 2010 - Sunday

4.25 p.m. - Saralaya Sisters - Kavitha & Triveni (Vocal), Nalina Mohan (Violin), Tumkur B. Ravishankar (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - V.K. Manimaran (Vocal), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (Ghatam)

Dec. 13, 2010 - Monday

4.30 p.m. - Shankar Mahadevan (Vocal), S.P. Ananthapadmanabha (Violin), Atlanta Sriram (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Dr.Subhashini Parthasarathy (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)

Dec. 14, 2010 - Tuesday

4.30 p.m. - Hyderabad N. Subbulakshmi (Vocal), Anayampatti G. Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), Hanumanthapuram R.J. Bhuvaragan (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - B. Balasubramaniam (Vocal), B.U. Ganeshprasad (Violin), Sridhar Chari (Mridangam)

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Prabhatha Sangeetham 2010 - 11

An early morning concert with just a sruti box, mo microphones and with traditionally lit oil lamps around, all that in Margazhi makes these concerts special.

The tradition has been on since Dec. 2002 and has grown to popular musicians taking part in it with equal pleasure as performing at any other sabha in the evenings.

The concerts are held at G/A, Saraswathi Apartments, 14/2 , Luz Avenue 2nd Street (Near Nageswara Rao Park), Mylapore, Chennai - 600 004

At 5.30 a.m to 6.30 a.m. every day from Dec. 25, 2010 to Jan. 13, 2011

The schedule of concerts :

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday - O.S. Thyagarajan - Vocal
Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday - K. Gayatri - Vocal
Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday - Abhishek Raghuraman - Vocal
Dec. 28, 2010 - Tuesday - Malavika Sundar - Vocal
Dec. 29, 2010 - Wednesday - Jayanti Kumaresh - Veena, Chennai Thyagarajan - Mridangam
Dec. 30, 2010 - Thursday - Delhi Sunderajan - Violin, Neyveli Shri Narayanan - Mridangam
Jan. 02, 2010 - Sunday - Chitraveena P. Ganesh -
Jan. 03, 2010 - Monday - S. Sowmya - Vocal
Jan. 04, 2010 - Tuesday - Gayatri Venkatraghavan - Vocal
Jan. 05. 2010 - Wednesday - Amrita Murali - Vocal
Jan. 06, 2010 - Thursday - Carnatica Brothers - Shashikiran and Ganesh - Vocal
Jan. 07, 2010 - Friday - R. K. Shriram Kumar - Vocal
Jan. 08, 2010 - Saturday - Sumitra Vasudev - Vocal
Jan. 10, Monday - Bharati Ramasubban - Vocal
Jan. 11, Tuesday - Niranjana Srinivasan - Vocal
Jan. 12, 2010 - Neyveli Santhanagopalan - Vocal
Jan. 13, 2010 - Delhi V.Muthukumar - Vocal

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Hamsavinodhini Sangeetha Utsavam 2010

West Mambalam based Hamsavinodhini has been holding December music festival sine four years. The concerts are held at Kasi Viswanathar Temple Vasantha Mandapam, Kuppiah Street, West Mambalam.

The venue is close to Mambalam Railway station and T.Nagar Bus stand, yet a clean 500 feet away from the huzzle-buzzle of T.Nagar. This 400 year old temple provides a calm and serene ambiance for concerts inside the temple.

Hamsavinodhini is honouring Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan with the title Sangeetha Viraja Hamsa, morsing artiste Srirangam Kannan with the title Sangeetha Hamsa and Lion Natarajan with Astika Seva Hamsa, this year.

Entry to all the concerts are free and open to all.

The concert schedule of the festival is here:

Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday

11.00 a.m. - Mangala Isai
4.45 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal, M. Rajeev - Violin, Srivanchiam Sriram - Mridangam
6.45 p.m. - Inauguration
7.15 p.m. - Veena Venu geetham : Jayalakshmi Sekhar - Veena, R. Thiagarajan - Flute, Trivandrum R. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, Pudukkottai N. Ramachandran - Ghatam

Dec. 17, 2010 - Friday

5.00 p.m. - Kanaka Durga Venkatesh - Vocal, Jayanthi Keshav - Violin, Trivandrum R. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - izianagarm D. Vardhani - Vocal, Jayanthi Keshav - Violin, Trivandrum R. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, C.S. Venkataraman - Kanjira

Dec. 18, 2010 - Saturday

9.30 a.m. - Mylai Sisters Revathi Sridharan & Priyashree Shankar - Devotional Songs
Kovai Chandran - Violin, S. Sathyanarayanan - Mridangam
11.00 a.m. - Myura - Vocal, S. Sathyanarayanan - Mridangam
12.00 noon - Delhi Muthukumar - Vocal, S.P. Anantha Padmanabha - Violin, B. Gururaghavendra - Mridangam
2.00 p.m. - Ganesh Viswanathan - Vocal, H.V. Raghuram - Violin, Kumbakonam Ramakrishnan - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters R.Chitra & R.Vijayalakshmi - Vocal, R.Hemaltha - Violin, B.Sivaraman - Mridangam, K.S. Rangachari - Kanjira

Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday

9.30 a.m. - Dr. Sanjay Subramanian - Vocal, H.V. Raghuram - Violin, Tanjore S. Balakrishnan - Mridangam
11.00 a.m. - R. Rajiv - Vocal, H.V. Raghuram - Violin, K.S. Ramana - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Madurai S.Suchitra & Party - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - S. Ramya - Vocal, Neela jayakumar - Violin, V.R. Jayakumar - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran - Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy - Violin, K.R. Ganesh - Mridangam

Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday

5.00 p.m. - Lalitha Mohan - Vocal, Kovai Chandran - Violin, N.J. Nandagopal - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Rajini Hariharan - Vocal, K.J. Dileep - Violin, N.J. Nandagopal - Mridangam

Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday

5.00 p.m. - Bhooma Kasturi - Vocal, Nagercoil Anand - Violin, K. Parthasarathy - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - T.N.S. Krishna - Vocal, Nagai R.Sriram - Violin, B.Sivaraman - Mridangam

Dec. 22, 2010 - Wednesday

5.00 p.m. - N. Harish - Vocal, R.Raghul - Violin, Kumbakonam K. Swaminathan - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Pallavi Prasanna - Vocal, B. Anantha Krishnan - Violin, Nellai A.Balaji - Mridangam, D.V. Venkatasubramanian - Ghatam

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday

5.00 p.m. - Prasad Venkataraman - Vocal, R.Kailasam - Violin, Hanumanthapuram J. Bhuvarahan - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Dr. Gayathri Sankaran - Vocal, V.L. Kumar - Violin, Thanjavur Subramanyan - Mridangam

Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday

5.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Ramprasad - Vocal, Kaushik Sivaramakrishnan - Violin, Thanjavur S. Balakrishnan - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Dr. Pantula Rama - Vocal, M.S.N. Murthy - Violin, Melakaveri K.Balaji - Mridangam

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday

9.30 a.m. - Meera Sivaramakrishnan & Kaushik Sivaramakrishnan - Violin Duet, Madipakkam Suresh - Mridangam, Madipakkam Murali - Ghatam
11.00 a.m. - R. Kashyap mahesh - Vocal, K.J. Dileep - Violin, Kumbakonam K. Swaminathan - Mridangam
5.00 p.m. - Jayashree Jayaramakrishnan - Vocal, Tiruvellore Parthasarathy - Violin, B. Guru Raghavendran - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Vasundhra Rajagopal - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin, Mannarkoil J.Balaji - Mridangam, Srirangam S. Ravikrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday

10.00 a.m. - Ranjani Guruprasad (Hebbar) - Vocal, Kalyani Shankar - Violin, Thanjavur Kumar (Mridangam)
12.00 noon - Madhura Sridharan & Party - Vocal
4.00 p.m. - Madurai Jayalakshmi Ramesh - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Mangalam Krishnan - Vocal, R.Raghul - Violin, Tiruvidaimarudur S. sankaran - Mridangam
6.45 p.m. - Award function felicitating Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, Srirangam S. Kannan and Lion Dr. Natarajan
7.00 p.m. - Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan - Vocal, Delhi P. Sunderrajan - Violin, R.Ramesh - Mridangam, Srirangam Kannan - Morsing

Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday

5.00 p.m. - Vinaya & Saindavi - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Trivandrum N.J. Nandini - Vocal, Parur Ananthakrishnan - Violin, B. Gururaghavendra - Mridangam, C.S. Venkataramanan - Kanjira

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Chennai Fine Arts - Lectures / Demonstrations

During the music festival, Chennai Fine Arts hosts lec dems on various topics.

The events are held at Gokhale Sastri Hall, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore.

For Chennai Fine Arts concert schedule, click here...

The lec-dem schedule:

Dec. 6, 2010 - Monday

6.20 p.m. - Lecture on the compositions of Lalgudi Sri.Jayaraman by Smt.Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi

Dec. 7, 2010 - Tuesday

6.20 p.m. - Lecture on the compositions of Mysore Vasudevachar by Dr.B M Sundaram

Dec. 8, 2010 - Wednesday

6.20 p.m. - Lecture & concert on the compositions of Mazhavai Chidambara Bharati by Dr.Premila Gurumurthy

Dec. 9, 2010 - Thursday

6.20 p.m. - Lecture on the compositions of Javalis by Dr.B M Sundaram

Dec. 10, 2010 - Friday

6.20 p.m. - Lecture on the compositions of Koteesvara Iyer by Dr.S.A.K. Durga

Dec. 11, 2010 - Saturday

5.00 p.m. - Lecture demonstration on the comparitive study on Indian Music by Dr.M.Narmada - Violin

Dec. 13, 2010 - Monday

5.00 p.m. - Lecture demonstration by Dr.M Nandini - Violin

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Chennai Fine Arts Music Festival - 2010

The eighth year music festival of Chennai Fine Arts will be held from Dec. 5 to 16, 2010.

This year's festival is dedicated to the memory of the musician, artist and guru S. Rajam.

The first five days of the festival will focus on the vaggeyakaras, the next three days are for instrumental music and the last three days give the platform to young artistes.

The concerts will be held at Gokhale Sastri Hall, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore.

Chennai Fine Arts functions from 75/9, First Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar. Phone: 2442 5445. email: chitraveena@yahoo.com

The Schedule of concerts:

Dec. 5, 2010 - Sunday (Only this day's events will be at Vani Mahal, T. Nagar)

5.00 p.m. - Injukkudi Sri.E.M.Subramaniam & Party - Nagasvaram

5.54 p.m. - Inauguration

6.45 p.m. - String Quartet - V S Narasimhan along with Hemanthraj Muliyil, B Jayachandran & V R Shekar

Dec. 6, 2010 - Monday

5.00 p.m. - Smt.Bhooma Kasturi - Vocal, Kalyani Shankar (Violin), Aswin Sridhaaran (Mridangam)

6.20 p.m. - Lecture on the compositions of Lalgudi Sri.Jayaraman by Smt.Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi

6.45 p.m. - Compositions of Lalgudi Shri.Jayaraman - Sankari Krishnan followed by S. P. Ramh - Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), B Sivaraman (Mridangam)

Dec. 7, 2010 - Tuesday

5.00 p.m. - Athira Krishna - Violin, S.Saanthakumar (Thavil), Chidambaram Rajendran (Morsing)

6.20 p.m. - Lecture on the compositions of Mysore Vasudevachar by Dr.B M Sundaram

6.45 p.m. - Compositions of Mysore Vasudevachar -

Rudrapatnam Brothers - Vocal, M. R. Gopinath (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam)

Dec. 8, 2010 - Wednesday

5.00 p.m. - Iyer Sisters -Vocal duet, Akkarai Swarnalatha (Violin), Thillaistanam Sooryanaranan (Mridangam)

6.20 p.m. - Lecture & concert on the compositions of Mazhavai Chidambara Bharati by Dr.Premila Gurumurthy - Vocal, Paakala Ramadoss (Violin), A. Ranganathan (Mridangam)

Dec. 9, 2010 - Thursday

5.00 p.m. - Vrinda Aacharya - Vocal, Srilakshmi Venkatramani (Violin), B. Srivatsan (Mridangam)

6.20 p.m. - Lecture on the compositions of Javalis by Dr.B M Sundaram

6.45 p.m. - Special Kannada & Telugu Javali's by Dr.Subhashini Parthasarathy -Vocal, Padma Shankar (Violin), Tanjavur Kumar (Mridangam)

Dec. 10, 2010 - Friday

5.00 p.m. - S R Veeraraghavan - Vocal, Karaikkal Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), Erode Nagarajan (Mridangam)

6.20 p.m. - Lecture on the compositions of Koteesvara Iyer by Dr.S.A.K. Durga

6.45 p.m. - Compositions of Kottesvara Iyer - Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam (Vocal), V.V.S. Murari (Violin), Melakaveri Balaji (Mridangam)

Dec. 11, 2010 - Saturday

5.00 p.m. - Lecture demonstration on the comparitive study on Indian Music by Dr.M.Narmada - Violin, Kudanthai A.Saravanan (Mridangam), M. N. Munesh (Tabla)

6.15 p.m. - S.Srinivasan - Veena, Serthalai Anantakrishnan (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 12, 2010 - Sunday

5.00 p.m. - Chaitanyakumar - Flute, Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Tanjavur K. Praveenkumar (Mridangam)

6.15 p.m. - Chitravina P. Ganesh - Chitravina, Mysore V. Srikanth - Violin, Tanjavur Murugaboopathy (Mridangam), Dr.S.Karthick (Ghatam)

Dec. 13, 2010 - Monday

5.00 p.m. - Lecture demonstration by Dr.M Nandini - Violin

6.15 p.m. - Aanayampatti Ganesan - Jalatharangam, Aanayampatti Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), Madirimangalam Swaminathan (Mridangam), Trichy Murali(Ghatam)

Dec. 14, 2010 - Tuesday

5.00 p.m. - K Subhiksha - Vocal, Kausik Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), M. S. Venkatasubramaniam (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Cuddalore S. K. Janani - Vocal, Jayanthy Kesav (Violin), K. Parthasarathy (Mridangam)

7.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram Ganesh Visvanathan - Vocal, Melakaveri Thagarajan (Violin), T. R. Sundaresan (Mridangam)

Dec. 15, 2010 - Wednesday

5.00 p.m. - J B Sruti Sagar - Flute, Sangeeta (Violin), Srivanchiam R. Sriram (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Arundhathi Krishnan - Vocal, R. Kailasam (Violin), Udupi Balakrishnan (Mridangam)

7.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers, Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan - Vocal duet, Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjeera)

Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday

5.00 p.m. - Uthra Rajamani - Vocal, Parur M. S. Anantakrishnan (Violin), N.C.Bharathwaj (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Gayathri Sathya -Vocal, C. K. Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Madipakkam Suresh (Mridangam), P. S. Ramanujam (Morsing)

7.00 p.m. - Dr.B.Vijayagopal - Flute, V.L.Kumar (Violin), H. S. Sudheendra (Mridangam)

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December Season 2010 Calendar

Updated on Dec. 3, 2010

You can click on the 'Print' link that appears on the right hand side and take a print of the days calendar and carry it with you to the sabhas.

Enjoy the season!

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Concerts at Sri Parthasarathy temple, Triplicane

Kalachara Marumalarchi, an organisation promoted by vocalist T.M. Krishna, organises concerts in temples throughout Tamil Nadu. During the December music season, the organisation puts up a festival of music in Sri Parthasarathy Temple, Triplicane every year.

The five-day festival begins on Nov. 24 this year.

The schedule of concerts:

Nov. 24 - Sikkil Gurucharan - Carnatic Vocal
Nov. 25 - S.Sowmya - Carnatic Vocal
Nov. 26 - Srivanchiam Muralidhara Bhagavathar - Namasankeerthanam
Nov. 27 - N. Vijay Siva - Carnatic Vocal
Nov. 28 - Sriram Parasuram and Anuradha Sriram - Jugalbandi

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Mylapore Arts Academy - Music Festival 2010

With the major sabhas hosting concerts in December, the neighbourhood organisations push their schedule up in November. Some in the city say that these concerts put you in the mood for the 'season'. Some are of theopinion that it is best to catch up with artistes for their best performances in the early season before the madness starts!

Mylapore Arts Academy hosts its festival from Nov. 19 to 28, 2010
The venue is Sri Dakshinamurthy Auditorium, P.S.High School, Mylapore, Chennai-600 004
Everyday at 6.15 p.m.

The schedule of concerts:

Nov. 19, 2010 - Friday

Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin, Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam

Nov. 20, 2010 - Saturday

O.S.Thiagarajan - Vocal, Mullaivasal Chandramouli - Violin, Balashankar - Mridangam

Nov. 21, 2010 - Sunday

Vani Satish - Vocal, Akkarai Swarnalatha - Violin, J.Vaidyanathan - Mridangam

Nov. 22, 2010 - Monday

Akkarai Sisters (Subbulakshmi & Swarnalatha) -Violin Duet

Nov. 23, 2010 - Tuesday

Neyveli Santhanagopalan - Vocal, M.ASundaresan - Violin, Guruvayur Dorai - Mridangam, B.S.Purushothaman - Kanjira

Nov. 24, 2010 - Wednesday

Pt.Janarthanan & Balasayee-Jugalbandhi (Sitar & Flute), K.V.Prasad - Mridangam, Chandrajit - Tabla

Nov. 25, 2010 - Thursday

A.Gayathri Dhevi - Vocal, B.Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam, Nanganallur Swaminathan - Ghatam

Nov. 26, 2010 - Friday

S. Saketharaman - Vocal, M.A.Krishnaswamy - Violin, Mannarkudi Easwaran - Mridangam, Vaikkam Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam

Nov. 27, 2010 - Saturday

Vasaundra Rajagopal - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin, Nellai Balaji - Mridangam, Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam

Nov. 28, 2010 - Sunday

Suguna Purushothaman & Suguna Varadachari - Vocal Duet, R.Hemalatha - Violin, Thanjavur Kumar - Mridangam, Pudukottai Ramachandran - Ghatam

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Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha - Iyal Isai Nataka Vizha - 2010

Titled Iyal Isai Nataka Vizha, Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha hosts music, dance, drama and nadaswara vizha during the December season every year.

Venue : Vani Mahal, G. N. Chetty Road, T. Nagar, Chennai - 17

Phone: 28152166

The official website of the sabha is here - http://vanimahal.com

The schedule for this year is here:

Dec. 10, 2010 - Friday

1.00 p.m. - Iyer Sisters Sudha R.S. Iyer & Srividhya R.S. Iyer - Vocal, N. Sarada (Violin), Nellai Srikrishnan (Mridangam)

2.15 - p.m. - Kalpalathika - Vocal, Nagarkoil Anand (Violini), Madurai B. Sundar (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Vasuda Kesav - Vocal, S.P.Ananthapadmanba (Violin), Nellai A.Balaji (Mridangam), Nanganallur S. Swaminathan (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan - Vocal, S. Varadarajan (Violin), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira)

Dec. 11, 2010 - Saturday

10.00 a.m. - Pallavi & Its Norms - Music symposium - co-ordinator Dr.B.M. Sundaram, Participants P.S. Narayanaswamy, R.Vedavalli, B.Krishnamurthy, T.K.Govinda Rao

1.00p.m. - J.A. Jayant - Flute, Villivakkam S. Raghuraman (Violin), S.R. Ethirajan (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Vasudha Ravi - Vocal, Roopa Natesan (Violin), Ammangudi S. Ramanarayanan (Mridangam)

4.00p.m. - Ragam Sisters V. Sivaranjani & V. Nalinakanthi - Vocal, Srilakshmi Venkataramani (Violin), Hanumanthapuram J. Bhuvarahan (Mridangam), G. Ravichandran (Ghatam)

6.30p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal, H.N.Bhaskar (Violin), Arjun Kumar (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

Dec. 12, 2010 - Sunday

10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatya & Styles - symposium - co-ordinator- Dr.B.M. Sundaram. Participants - Davesh Soneji, Savithri Jagnnatha Rao, Meenakshi Chittranjan, Urmila Satyanarayan

1.00 p.m. - Sri Vani - Veena, G.Prithiviraj (Violin), Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)

2.15 p.m. - Vinaya and S. Saindhavi - Vocal, Jayanthi Kesav (Violin), Prasanna Karthikeyan (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Chinmaya Sisters Uma & Radhika - Vocal, Melakaveri Thiyagarajan (Violin), Nellai A.Balaji (Mridangam), Nanganallur S.Swaminathan (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan - Vocal, Pakala Ramadas (Violin), I. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Alathur T.Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

Dec. 13, 2010 - Monday

1.00 p.m. - Hari Govindan - Vocal, Shyam (Violin), Akshay Ram (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m - Bharathi Ramasubban - Vocal, R. Raghul (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - S. Kasturirangan, Vocal, Anayampatti G. Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), M.S. Varadan (Mridangam), Nerkunam S. Sankar (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec. 14, 2010 - Tuesday

1.00 p.m. - Kasaravalli Sisters Roopa & Deepa - Vocal, Aarthi Shankar (Violin), H.Vijayaram (Mridangam)

2.15p.m. - Sai Subramanian - Guitar, R. Kailasam (Violin), A.V. Raghuprasad (Mridangam), Ernakulam Ramakrishnan (Ghatam)

4.00 p.m. - K.R. Saranathan - Vocal, Thiruvellore V. Parthasarathy (Violin), Thiruvidaimarudur S. Radhakrishnan (Mridangam), N. Narasimhan (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), A.S.Krishnanan (Morsing)

Dec. 15, 2010 - Wednesday

1.00 p.m. - R. Sriram - Veena, J. Harish (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

2.15 p.m. - K. Subhiksha - Vocal, C.N. Srinivasamurthy (Violin), Kumbakonam K. Swaminathan (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Sankari Krishnan - Vocal, Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Nerkunam S. Sankar (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m. - S. Sowmya - Vocal, Embar S. Kannan (Violin), H.S. Sudhindra (Mridangam), K.V. Goplakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday

1.00 p.m. - Srirangam Venkata Nagarajan - Vocal, T.V.Sukanya (Violin), Vikram Vasudevan (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Gayathri Shankar - Vocal, Srilakshmi Venkataramani (Violin), Trivandrum Hariharan (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan - Vocal, Melakavery Thiyagarajan (Violin), Thiruvidaimarudur S Sankaran (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m. - T.V.Sankaranarayanan - Vocal, Mysore V.Srikanth (Violin), Sri Mushnam V.Raja Rao (Mridangam), E.M.Subramaniyam (Ghatam)

Dec. 17, 2010 - Friday

1.00 p.m. - Isai Mazhalai - Prachotan - Vocal, Kaushik Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), N.C.Bharadwaj (Mridangam), S.Krishna (Ghatam)

2.15 p.m. - Vidya Srinivasan - Vocal, Kallidaikurichi N.Balakrishnan (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - U.P.Raju & Nagamani - Mandolin Duet, M.L.N.Raju ( Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Padma Subrahmanyam Presents Bharatha Nrithyam along with Nrithyodaya Artistes

Dec. 18, 2010 - Saturday

10.00 a.m. - Kadyanallur Rajagopala Bhagavatar & Party (Namasankeerthanam)

1.00 p.m. - Swetharanyam Sisters R.Nithya &R.Vidya - Vocal, G.Karthick (Violin), Adambakkam Aravind (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - K.H.Mangala - Vocal, Srividhya R.S.Iyer (Violin), Calcutta Karthick ( Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Dr. R.Ganesh - Vocal, Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan (Violin), T.R.Sundaresan (Mridangam), A.S.Krishnan (Morsing)

6.30 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayathri - Vocal, B.U.Ganesh Prasad (Violin), K.Arun Prakash (Mridangam), Dr.S.Karthick (Ghatam)

Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday

10.00 a.m. - B.Vijayagopal - Flute, V.V.Srinivasa Rao (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam)

1.00 p.m. - K.Amirtha Ranjani - Vocal, Chidambaram G.Badrinath (Violin), M.S.Venkatasubramaniam (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath - Vocal, Aditi Krishna Prakash (Violin), K.S.Ramana (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Sthree Thall Tharang presents Laya Raga Sangamam Ensemble : Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghata Tharang, Ghatam & Konnakol), J. Yoha Vandana (Veena), Sowmya Ramachandran (Violin), Ranjani Venkatesh (Mridangam), Bhagyalakshmi M.Krishna (Morsing)

6.30 p.m. - Sanjay Subramanyam - Vocal, S.Varadarajan (Violin), Srimushnam V.Raja Rao (Mridangam), Trichy K.Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday

1.00 p.m. - Isai Mazhalai Rajagopalan - Vocal, Supraja (Violin), Arjun Raghavan (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Ranjani Harharan - Vocal, Kovai S. Chandran (Violin), Manikkudi S.Chandrasekaran (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Sriram Gangadaran - Vocal, K.J.Dileep (Violin), A.S.Ranganathan (Mridangam), S.Venkataraman (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath - Saxophone, A.Kanyakumari (Violin), B.Harikumar (Mridangam), Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam), Bangalore B.Rajasekar (Morsing)

Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday

1.00 p.m. - Kyvalya Kumar Chilla - Vocal, B.Sudha (Violin), Sai Nivaithen (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Sukanya - Vocal, Thiruvellore Parthasarathy (Violin), Jayamangala Krishnamani (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Subha Ganesan - Vocal, V.V.Srinivasa Rao (Violin), V.M.Ganesan ( Mridangam)

6.30 p.m. - Neyveli R.Santhanagopalan - Vocal, V.V.Ravi (Violin), Neyveli R.Narayanan (Mridangam), K.V.Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira )

Dec. 22, 2010 - Wednesday

1.00 p.m. - Isai Mazhalai L.Srividhya - Vocal, Aswin (Violin), Thirucherai Kaushik (Mridangam )

2.15 p.m. - Palakkad Venugopal - Vocal, Sankar Rajan (Violin), Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Geetha Ramanathan Bennet - Veena, Angarai V.Rajasekar (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters Shanmugapriya & Haripriya - Vocal, M.A.Krishnaswamy (Violin), Satish Kumar (Mridangam), B. Shree Sundar Kumar (Kanjira)

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday

1.00 p.m. - Raginisri - Vocal, Subashini (Violin), Balaji Shankar ( Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Lavanya Sundararaman - Vocal, Parur Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Tanjore K.Praveen Kumar (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Saralaya Sisters Kavitha & Triveni - Vocal, Kalyani Shankar (Violin), Anoor A.K.Sharma (Mridangam), Nanganallur S.Swaminathan (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - K.J.Yesudas - Vocal, Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), K.V.Prasad (Mridangam), Tripoonithura Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday

1.00 p.m. - T.S.Vasudevan - Vocal, C.N.Srinivasamurthy (Violin), Rishikesh Thirumalai (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Delhi Muthukumar - Vocal, Kovai S.Chandran (Violin), Nirmal Naryanan (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Swaminathan - Vocal, Padma Shankar (Violin), B Ganapathy Raman (Mridangam), N.Sundar (Morsing)

6.30 p.m. - Mahadevam Mahesenam Bhaje - Dance Drama - Concept & Chreogrephy by Anitha Guha

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday

10.00 a.m. - R.Suriyaprakash - Vocal, M.R.Gopinath (Violin), Thanjavur K. Murugabhoopathi (Mridangam), A.S.Shankar (Ghatam)

1.00 p.m. - Arundathi Krishnan - Vocal, Sradha Ravindran (Violin), L.Subramaniam (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Jayashree Vaidyanathan - Vocal, Aarthi Sankar (Violin), Subha Chandramouli (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Amritha Venkatesh - Vocal, V V S Murari (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Bhagyalakshmi M.Krishna (Morsing)

4.45 p.m. - Geetha Krishnamurthy - Veena, Thirupathy M.Sudhakar (Mridangam), H.Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Ganesh & Kumaresh (Violin Duet), Hridwarmangalam A.K.Palanivel (Thavil),

Parupalli Phalgun (Mridangam)

Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday

10.00 a.m. - Arthi Suresh - Vocal, Padma Shankar (Violin), Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)

1.00 p.m. - Anirudh Venkatesh - Vocal, R.Nagaraj (Violin), Gopal Ravindran (Mridangam )

2.15 p.m. - Shreya Devnath - Violin, Rajna Swaminathan (Mridangam), S.Sunil Kumar (Kanjira )

4.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal), R.Hemalatha (Violin), Nellai A Balaji (Mridangam), K.S.Rangachary (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m. - Gayathri Girish - Vocal, R.Hemalatha (Violin), A.S.Ranganathan (Mridangam), Papanasam S Sethuraman (Kanjira )

Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday

1.00 p.m. - Isai Mazhalai Pragadeesh Shanmugarajah - Vocal, Shraddha (Violin), Bhairav Chandrasekar (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Jayashree Jayaramakrishnan - Vocal, Anuthama Murali (Violin), Bangalore Raghunath (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan - Vocal, M.A.Sundareswaran (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), D.V.Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Maharajapuram S.Ramachandran - Vocal, Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), K.V.Prasad (Mridangam), H.Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 28, 2010 - Tuesday

1.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Ramprasad - Vocal, G.Karthick (Violin), Sai Sarangan (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Uma Money - Vocal, Villivakkam Raghuraman (Violin), Thillaistanam Suryanarayanan (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Neyveli S Radhakrishna - Double Violin, Thanjavur T.R. Govindarajan (Spl. Thavil), B. Shree Sundar Kumar (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m. - S. Shashank - Flute, Mysore M.Nagaraj (Violin), Parupalli Phalgun (Mridangam)

Dec. 29, 2010 - Wednesday

1.00 p.m. - Revathy Raman - Veena, Thiruvallur S.Shreyas (Mridangam), Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)

2.15 p.m. - Mahadevan Sankaranarayanan - Vocal, S.P.Ananthapadmanabha (Violin), R.Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Subhashini Parthasarathy - Vocal, AGA Gnasundaram (Violin), S.J.Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), N.Rajaraman (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Laya Madhura - ensemble - Tiuruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), Venkatesan (Nadaswaram), Mysore A. Chandan Kumar (Flute), Thirupunithura Radhakrishnan (Kanjira), Mysore V.S.Suresh (Morsing), D.Chandrajit (Tabla)

Dec. 30, 2010 - Thursday

1.00 p.m. - Sruti Balaji - Vocal, Aswin Ramanathan (Violin), Mannargudi Shreyas (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - T.R.Vasudevan - Vocal, B.Ananthakrishnan (Violin), S.J.Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), D.V.Venkatasubramanyam (Ghatam)

4.00 p.m. - K.Gayathri - Vocal, Nishanth Chandran (Violin), R.Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), H.Prasannah (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m. - Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad &Ravi Kumar - Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), K.R.Ganesh (Mridangam), Dr.S.Karthick (Ghatam)

Dec. 31, 2010 - Friday

1.00 p.m. - Sushma Somasekaran - Vocal, Smitha Krishnan (Violin), Guru Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Bharat Sundar - Vocal, Arun Ramamurthy (Violin), Guru Ragavendra (Mridangam)

4.00 p.m. - Dr.M.Narmada - Violin, Cherthalai R.Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m. - Bombay Sisters C.Saroja & C.Lalitha - Vocal, Mysore V.Srikanth (Violin), Palladam Ravi (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)

Jan. 01, 2011 - Saturday

6.30 p.m. - Utsav Music Presents Dance Feature : Muthamizh Maalai by Radhika Shurajit & Troupe. Along with Revathy Sankkaran

Jan. 02, 2011 - Sunday

7.00 p.m. - Crazy Creations Presents Drama: Madhil Mel Madhu

Jan. 03, 2011 - Monday

7.00 p.m. - Natakapriya presents S.Ve Sekher Drama: Alwa

Jan. 04, 2011 - Tuesday

7.00 p.m. - Stage Creations presents Drama : Kasthadi Ramamurthy in 'Neenga Yaar Pakkam' by S.L.Nanu

Jan. 05, 2011 - Wednesday

7.00 p.m. - UAA presents YGEE Mahaendra in Drama: 'Imperfect Murder'

Jan. 06, 2011 - Thursday

7.00 p.m. - United Visuals presents Drama: T.V.Varadarajen in ' Mega Serial'

Jan. 07, 2011 - Friday

6.45 p.m. - National Theatres presents Drama: Elangeswaran

Jan. 08, 2011 - Saturday

6.30 p.m. - Thirumeignanam T.K.R. Ayyappan & T.K.R. Meenachi sundarm - Nadaswaram, Thirunageswaram T.R Subramaniam (Spl.Thavil)

Jan. 09, 2011 - Sunday

6.30 p.m. - Injikudi E.M.Mariappan - Nadaswaram

Jan. 10, 2011 - Monday

6.30 p.m. - Chinnamanur A.Vijay Karthikeyan - Nadaswaram, Irumbavanam V. Ilaya Raja, Mettupalayam M.S.Ravi Kumar - Tavil

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Brahma Gana Sabha Music and dance Festival 2010

Brahma gana Sabha holds its annual music and dance festival from Dec. 3, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2010. Venue: Sivagami Pethachi Auditorium, M.CT.M. School, Luz Church Road, Mylapore.

For season tickets, please contact the Secretary Mr. Ravi on mobile phone number - +91-9444444767

Dec. 3, 2010 - Friday

6.00 p.m. - Inauguration

Dec. 4, 2010 - Saturday

1.00 p.m. - Brinda Manickavasakam (Vocal), Sudarshan Padmanabhan (Violin), Srivanchiam R. Sriram (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. -Subiksha Rangarajan (Vocal), Akkarai S. Swarnalatha (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Mandolin Sisters - Sreesha and Sreeusha (Mandolin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), Subba Rao (Ghatam)

6.00 p.m. - R. Vedavalli (Vocal), Pakkala Ramadas (Violin), K. Arunprakash (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec. 5, 2010 - Sunday

1.00 p.m. - Nithya & Vidya (Vocal), Lavanya (Violin), Madurai B. Sundar (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Bhairavi & Malavi (Vocal), Akkarai S. Swarnalatha (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - S.R. Veeraraghavan (Vocal), V.L. Sudarshan (Violin), N. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal)

Dec. 6, 2010 - Monday

2.15 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman (Vocal), K.P. Nandini (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - K. Hariprasad (Vocal), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), Shertalai Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram S. Srinivasan (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam)

Dec. 7, 2010 - Tuesday

2.15 p.m. - Kanaka Durga (Vocal), Kalyani Shankar (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Sushma Somasekharan (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - A. Kanyakumari & Embar S. Kannan (Violin Duet), Patri Satishkumar , (Mridangam), Srirangam Kannan (Morsing)

Dec. 8, 2010 - Wednesday

2.15 p.m. - Bhooma Kasturi (Vocal), Anand (Violin), K. Parthasarathy (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Geetha Raja (Vocal), Dr. M. Narmada (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), N. Sundar (Morsing)

6.00 p.m. - Pantula Rama (Vocal), M.S.N. Murthy (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)

Dec. 9, 2010 - Thurdsay

2.15 p.m. - T.C.A Sangeetha (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Sriram Gangadharan (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), A.S. Ranganathan (Mridangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)

6.00 p.m. - S. Shashank (Flute)

Dec. 10. 2010 - Friday

2.15 p.m. - Ramya Kannan (Vocal)

3.45 p.m. - Swarna Rethas (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), B. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 11, 2010 - Saturday

1.00 p.m. - B. Lakshmi Surya Teja (Vocal), Pappu Gyandev (Violin), Pappu Sathyajeyadev (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - K. Bharath Sundar (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Prasanna Venkatraman (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

6.00 p.m. - S. Sowmya (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam)

Dec. 12, 2010 - Sunday

1.00 p.m. - Shreya Devnath (Violin)

2.15 p.m. - Varalakshmi Anandkumar (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), Manakkal Sriram (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Kunnakudy M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

6.00 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayatri (Vocal), Trichy K. Murali (Violin), M.R. Gopinath (Violin)

Delhi Sairam (Mridangam)

Dec. 13, 2010 - Monday

2.15 p.m. - Aishwarya Shankar (Vocal), Harini Srivatsa (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Subhashree Ramachandran (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Sriram Parasuram and Anuradha Sriram (Jugalbandhi)

Dec. 14, 2010 - Tuesday

2.15 p.m. - Shoba Sriram (Vocal), Srividhya R.S. Iyer (Violin), S. Venkatasubramaniam (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Shubha Ganesan (Vocal), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)

6.00 p.m. - N. Vijay Siva (Vocal), Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 15, 2010 - Wednesday

2.15 p.m. - V. Deepika (Vocal), S.P. Anantha Padmanabha (Violin), A.V. Manikandan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Manda Sudharani (Vocal)

6.00 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Tanjore Murugabhoopathy (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday

2.15 p.m. - Shraddha Mohan (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Vani Satish (Vocal)

6.00 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Haripriya and Shanmugapriya (Vocal), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), B. Shree Sundarkumar (Kanjira)

Dec. 17, 2010 - Friday

2.15 p.m. - A. Gayathri Dhevi (Vocal), R. Satish Kumar (Violin), A.V. Manikandan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Bhushany Kalyanaraman (Vocal), B. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)

6.00 p.m. - Revathy Krishna (Veena), Chidambaram S. Balashankar (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 18, 2010 - Saturday

1.00 p.m. - Nivedita Narayanan (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), Prapancham Shailendran (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath (Vocal), Akkarai S. Swarnalatha (Violin), Erode Nagarajan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Vijayanagaram D. Vardhini (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), S. Thiyagarajan (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - N. Ravikiran (Chitraveena)

Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday

1.00 p.m. - Krithika Natarajan (Vocal), H.V. Raghuram (Violin), Thalaignayiru Harish Kumar (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Sandeep Narayan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Lavanya Sundhararaman (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Tanjore K. Praveen Kumar (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Sikkil Gurucharan (Vocal), Mysore M. Nagaraj (Violin), Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam)

Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday

1.00 p.m. - Bombay Shilpa (Vocal), Mysore C.N. Srinivasamurthy (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - D.B. Ashwin (Vocal), Nishant Chandran (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - S. Mahathi (Vocal), Melakaveri K. Thiagarajan (Violin), M.S. Varadan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

6.00 p.m. - Gayathri Venkatraghavan (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), K. Arunprakash (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday

1.00 p.m. - G. Abhilash (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), Srivanchiam R. Sriram (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Mysore A. Chandran Kumar (Flute), Jyotsna Srikanth (Violin), H.S. Sudhindra (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - K.N. Shashikiran (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Neyveli B. Venkatesh (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Kadichambadi K.P. Srinvias and Kadichambadi K.P. Balamurugam (Nadaswaram), Thirunageswaram T.R.S. Manikandan (Thavil), Haridwaramangalam A.K. Palanivel (Special Thavil)

Dec. 22, 2010 - Wednesday

1.00 p.m. - Visalakshi Sankar (Vocal), Smitha Krishnan (Violin), Gopal Ravindran (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Dr. Hamsini Nagendra (Vocal)

3.45 p.m. - Bangalore Saralaya Sisters (Vocal), Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), Nellai A. Balaji (Mridangam)

7.00 p.m. - Urmila Sathyanarayana (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thurdsay

1.00 p.m. - Chaitrra Sairam (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - N. Harish (Vocal), Roopa Rajagopal (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Akkarai Sisters - Subbulakshmi and Sornalatha (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), B. Shree Sundarkumar (Kanjira)

6.00 p.m. - Malladi Brothers - Sriram Prasad and Ravikumar (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), Prof. Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam)

Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday

1.00 p.m. - Hemmige S. Prashanth (Vocal), Aditi Krishnaprakash (Violin), K. Parthasarathy (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Jayashree Vaidhyanathan (Vocal), Kovai S. Chandran (Violin), Raghavan Vasudevan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - S. Saketharaman (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

7.00 p.m. - Priyadarshini Govind - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday

1.00 p.m. - Ganesh & Krishnan (Violin - Duet), Thillaisthanam Suryanarayanan (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Pallavi Prasanna (Vocal), B. Vittalrangan (Violin), Manikudi Chandrasekar (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal), Mysore M. Manjunath (Violin), R. Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam)

7.00 p.m. - Malavika Sarukkai (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday

1.00 p.m. - Sruti Balaji (Vocal), Aarti Shankar (Violin), Aravind Shankar (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - K. Vandana (Vocal), K.V. Krishna (Violin), K. Ramesh (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Geetha Krishnamurthy (Veena), Thirupathi M. Sudhakar (Mridangam), N. Rajaraman (Ghatam)

7.00 p.m. - Disciples of Anitha Guha (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday

1.00 p.m. - K.P. Nandini (Vocal), K.P. Haricharan (Violin), Tanjore K. Praveen Kumar (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Aarthi Kumar (Vocal)

3.45 p.m. - Nisha P. Rajagopal (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekara Sarma (Ghatam)

7.00 p.m. - Jayant Kastuar (Kathak)

Dec. 28, 2010 - Tuesday

1.00 p.m. - Sidharth Sriram (Vocal)

2.15 p.m. - Sudha Raghuraman (Vocal), Akkarai S. Swarnalatha (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Trichur Brothers (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - Vani Ganapathy (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 29, 2010 - Wednesday

1.00 p.m. - Sri Vani (Veena), Thillaisthanam Suryanarayanan (Mridangam)

2.15 p.m. - Lakshmi Rajagopal (Vocal), Melakaveri K. Thiagarajan (Violin), Rajesh Srinivasan (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters - R. Chitra and R. Vijayalakshmi (Vocal), R. Hemalatha (Violin), A.V. Manikandan (Mridangam), K.S. Rangachary (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - Rama Vaidyanathan (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 30, 2010 - Thursday

1.00 p.m. - Arun Prakash (Vocal)

2.15 p.m. - Iyer Sisters - Sri Vidhya and Sudha R.S. Iyer (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam)

3.45 p.m. - Sreevalsan J. Menon (Vocal), Idappally Ajith Kumar (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam)

7.00 p.m. - Alarmel Valli (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 31, 2010 - Friday

1.00 p.m. - Nadhamuni Gayathri (Vocal), S.V. Sudarsan (Violin)

2.15 p.m. - Champa Kalkura (Vocal)

3.45 p.m. - G.S. Rajan (Flute), Padma Shankar (Violin), Trichur C. Narendran (Mridangam)

6.00 p.m. - Visakha Hari (Harikatha)

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