Maris Music Mela on Dec. 25, 2010

Hotel Maris on Cathedral Road conducts Maris Music Mela on Christmas Day every year.

A full day mela has concerts at the cozy circular hall of Hotel Maris and gives the audience the feel of listening to music at their drawing hall.

Tomorrow's event starts at 9.30 am. After the inauguration, there are four concerts lines up from 10.15 am with a lunch break of an hour and a half at 1 pm.

At 10.15 am Bangalore S Shankar will sing to the accompanimnet of Mysore M Nagaraj on the violin, Tumkur Ravishankar on Mridangam and B.S. Purushotham on Kanjira.

The afternoon concert is by Pallavi Susara from Australia singing at 2.30 pm with Anupama Shankar on violin. Pragadeesh Shanmugaraja on mridangam.

Kunrakudi Balamurali Krishna will sing at 4 pm with accompanists Avaneeswram S.R.Vinu on the violin. M.V.Chandrasekhar on the mridangam and Madipakkam A Murali on the Ghatam.

Chitraveena concert by N.Ravikiran is at 6.15 pm. Accompanying him are Mysore Manjunath on violin, Trichy Sankaran on the mridangam and Giridhar Udupa on the ghatam.

The concerts are free and open to all rasikas. Find the location on Google Maps here.