The Mylapore Fine Arts Society

The MFAC celebrates its diamond jubilee year in 2011. The arts festival will be held from Dec. 11, 2011 to Jan. 17, 2012 with an exclusive dance festival beginning from Jan. 2, 2012

The MFAC auditorium is on 45, Musiri Subramaniam Salai, Mylapore, Chennai - 4.
Phone no. 24997755

Membership Reservation starts on Dec. 4, 2011 (Sunday) at 4.00 p.m.

The schedule:

Dec. 11, 2011 - Sunday

6.00 p.m. - Inauguration

7.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Mashantha Viswanathan (Dis. of Rajeswari Sainath)

Dec. 12, 2011 - Monday

9.30 a.m. - Sriram Parthasarathy - Vocal, Vittal ramamurthy - Violin, R. Ramesh - Mridangam, B. Sreesundar Kumar - Kanjira

12.00 noon - Rahul Narayanan - Vocal, Vittal Rangan - Violin, Guru Raghavendra - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - S.R. Maitreyi - Vocal, Roopa Rajagopal - Violin, Srivanchiam Sriram - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - Kunnakudi M. Balamuralikrishna - Vocal, V. Sanjeev - Violin, Sherthalai Ananthakrishnan - Mridangam, K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam

6.30 p.m. - Raji Gopalakrishnan - Vocal, R. Hemalatha - Violin, Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam, Adambakkam Shankar - Ghatam

Dec. 13, 2011 - Tuesday

9.30 a.m. - Manasi Prasad - Vocal, B. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, C. Cheluvaraju - Mridangam

12.00 noon - Arundhathi Krishnan - Vocal, Siva Ramamurthy - Violin, V.S. Raghavan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal, Bombay Anand - Violin, Kumbakonam Swaminathan

4.00 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers K.N. Shashikiran & P. Ganesh - Vocal, Mysore V. Srikanth - Violin, Srimushnam V. Raja Rao - Mridangam

6.30 p.m. - S. Sowmya - Vocal, M. Narmada - Violin, Poongulam Subramaniam - Mridangam, N. Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 14, 2011 - Wednesday

9.30 a.m. - Suguna Varadhachari - Vocal, Akkarai Subbulakshmi - Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar - Mridangam, Nerkunam Shankar - Kanjira

12.00 noon - Vikram Krishna - Vocal, M. Vijay - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Chaitra Sairam - Vocal, Sudha R.S. Iyer, Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - S.P. Ramh - Vocal, Pakala Ramadas - Violin, Madipakkam Suresh - Mridangam, A.S. Krishnan - Ghatam

7.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Alarmel Valli

Dec. 15, 2011 - Thursday

9.30 a.m. - Dr. S. Sundar - Vocal, R.K. Sriramkumar - Violin, Trichur C. Narendran - Mridangam, Ernakulam Ramakrishnan - Ghatam

12 noon - Shruthi S. Bhat - Vocal, V. Supraja - Violin, Delhi S. Raghunandan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Subhiksha Rangarajan - Vocal, K.P. Nandini - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - Bhushani Kalyanaraman - Vocal, Kalyani Shankar - Violin, A.S. Ranganathan - Mridangam, G. Harihara Sharma - Ghatam

6.30 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal, Embar S. Kannan - Violin, Serthalai Ananthakrishnan - Mridangam, S.V. Ramani - Ghatam

Dec. 16, 2011 - Friday

9.30 a.m. - Gayathri Sankaran - Vocal, Pakala ramasad - Violin, P.V. Kamaraju - Mridangam

12.00 Noon - Vignesh Ishwar - Vocal, Lavanya Kothandaraman - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - N. Bhairavi & N. Malavi - Vocal, Kovai Chandran - Violin,

- Kumbakonam Swaminathan - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam - Vocal, M. Narmada - Violin, T.R. Sundaresan - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira

6.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Haripriya & Shanmughapriya - Vocal, M.A. Krishnaswamy - Violin, Patri Satishkumar - Mridangam, B. Sreesundarkumar - Kanjira

Dec. 17, 2011 - Saturday

9.30 a.m. - Allepey Venkatesan - Vocal, B.U. Ganeshprasad - Violin, Manoj Siva - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira

12.00 Noon - K. Sriram - Vocal, K. Ganesan - Violin, T.R.S Manikandan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - V. Deepika - Vocal, Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, A.V. Manikandan - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - S. Saketharaman - Vocal, Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi - Violin, Neyveli R. Narayanan - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira

6.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan - Vocal, M.A. Krishnaswamy - Violin, Patri Satishkumar - Mridangam, R. Raman - Morsing

Dec. 18, 2011 - Sunday

9.30 a.m. - T.N.S. Krishna - Vocal, Delhi Sundararajan - Violin, R. Ramesh - Mridangam, B.S. Purushothaman - Kanjira

12.00 Noon - Gayathri Shreyas - Vocal, Parur M.S.Ananthashree - Violin, Karthik Narayanan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Niranjana Srinivasan - Violin, K.J. Dilip - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar - Vocal, R.K. Sriram Kumar - Violin, Melakaveri K. Balaji - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira

6.30 p.m. - Aruna Sairam - Vocal, B. Raghavendra Rao - Violin, B. Ganapathiraman - Mridangam, S.V. Ramani - Ghatam

Dec. 19, 2011 - Monday

9.30 a.m. - M. Nandini (Violin Solo), Mannarkoil J. Balaji - Mridangam, H. Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam

12.00 Noon - Kashyap Mahesh - Vocal, V. Suresh Babu - Violin, Paiyur C. Gopalakrishnan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Brinda Manickavasagam - Vocal, Akkarai Swarnalatha - Violin, R. Ramkumar - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - Jayanthi Kumaresh -Veena, Patri Satishkumar - Mridangam, G. Guruprasanna - Ghatam

6.30 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, M. Narmada - Violin, Neyveli Skandasubramaniam - Mridangam, S. Karthick - Ghatam

Dec. 20, 2011 - Tuesday

9.30 a.m. - Sugantha Kalamegam - Vocal, R. Hemalatha - Violin, Mannarkoil J. Balaji - Mridangam

12.00 Noon - V. Venkatanagarajan - Vocal, T.S. Dineshkumar - Violin, K.J. Vineeth - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - K. Dharini - Vocal, M.S. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, K.J. Vineeth - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - O.S. Arun - Vocal, M.R. Gopinath - Violin, K.V. Prasad - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira

6.30 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan - Vocal, B. Raghavendra Rao - Violin, Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, Papanasam S. Sethuraman - Kanjira

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday

9.30 a.m.- Iyer Brothers - Ramnath Iyer & Gopinath Iyer - Veena Duet, Thanjavur Kumar - Mridangam, Pudukottai N. Ramachandran - Ghatam

12.00 Noon - N.C.S. Ravali - Vocal, Anand - Violin, V.S. Raghavan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Bharat Sundar - Vocal, Trivandrum Sampath - Violin, Guru Raghavendra - Mridangam

4.00 p.m. - Dr. R. Ganesh - Vocal, Madurai S. Balasubramanian - Violin, Chidambaram S. Balashankar - Mridangam, Trichy K. Murali - Ghatam

6.30 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers - D. Seshachari & D. Raghavachari - Vocal, Nagai Sriram - Violin, Mannargudi A. Eswaran - Mridangam, H. Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday

9.30 a.m. - Sriram Gangadharan - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan - Violin, B. Sivaraman - Mridangam

12.00 Noon - M. Raginisri - Vocal, V. Supraja - Violin, Arjun Raghavan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Nadhamuni Gayathri - Vocal, Kovai Chandran - Violin, Manikudi Chandrasekaran - Mridangam

3.00 p.m. - Salem S.R. Sriram - Vocal, Nishant Chandran - Violin, Madipakkam Suresh - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - Mysore M. Nagaraj & M. Manjunath (Violin Duet), Thiruvarur P. Bhakthavatsalam - Mridangam, Madipakkam Murali - Ghatam, K.V. Gopalakrishanan - Ghatam

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday

9.30 a.m. - U.P. Raju & P. Nagamani - Mandolin Duet, Serthalai Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Trichy K.Murali - Mridangam

12.00 Noon - Ramya Kannan - Vocal, Giridhari - Violin, Srivanchium Sriram - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Jayashree Vaidyanathan - Vocal, Kovai chandran - Violin, Manikudi Chandrasekaran - Mridangam, Narasimhan - Ghatam

3.00 p.m. - Mandolin Sisters - Sreeusha & Sireesha - Mandolin, Nellai A. Balaji - Mridangam, B. Subba Rao - Ghatam

6.00 p.m. - T.M. Krishna - Vocal, Embar S. Kannan - Violin, B. Ganapathiraman - Mridangam, Vaikam Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday

9.30 a.m. - R. Suryaprakash - Vocal, M.A. Sundareswaran - Violin, Mannargudi A. Easwaran - Mridangam, Alathur T. Rajaganesh - Ghatam

12.00 Noon - K. Subhiksha - Vocal, Vittal Rangan - Violin, K.J. Vineeth - Mridangam

1.30 p.m.- Vidya G. Subramaniam - Vocal, H.V. Raghuram - Violin, Mayavaram Muralidharan - Mridangam

3.00 p.m. - S. Girish - Vocal, R. Ambikaprasad - Violin, A.S. Ranganathan - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - Bombay Jayashree - Vocal, H.N. Bhaskar - Violin, Patri Satishkumar - Mridanga, Udupi Sridhar - Ghatam

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday

9.30 a.m.- N. Ramani - Flute, M.A. Sundareswaran - Violin, K.V. Prasad - Mridangam, A.S. Shankar - Ghatam

12.00 Noon - V. Dheekshitha - Vocal, T.S. Dineshkumar - Violin, Akshayram - Mridangam

1.30 p.m.- Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan - Vocal, Rajiv - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam

3.00 p.m. - Subhasree Ramachandran - Vocal, M. Narmada - Violin, Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - U. Shrinivas - Mandolin, S.D. Sridharan - Violin, Srimushnam V. Raja Rao - Mridangam, S.V. Ramani - Ghatam, Srirangam Kannan - Morsing

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday

9.30 a.m. - Dr. Subhashini Parthasarathy - Vocal, A.G.A. Gnanasundaram - Violin, M. Ravichandra - Mridangam

12.00 Noon - K. Mahathi - Keyboard, Shradha Ravindran - Violin, Sathyanarayanan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - M. Ramakrishnan Murthy - Vocal, M.S. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, B. Srivatsan - Mridangam

3.00 p.m. - Amrutha Venkatesh - Vocal, Anand Viswanathan - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan - Vocal, Embar S. Kannan - Violin, - Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan

Dec. 27, 2011 - Tuesday

9.30 a.m.- Geetha Raja - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan - Violin, B. Ganapathiraman - Mridangam, N. Sundar - Kanjira

12.00 Noon - Shraddha Mohan - Vocal, T.S. Dineshkumar - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Aparna Thiagarajan - Vocal, Apoorva Krishna - Violin, Tirucherai Kaushik - Mridangam

3.00 p.m. - Amrutha Murali - Vocal, Ranjani Ramakrishnan - Violin, R. Sankaranarayanan - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - Trichur V. Ramachandran - Vocal, M.R. Gopinath - Violin, Guruvayur Dorai - Mridangam, E.M. Subramaniam - Ghatam

Dec. 28, 2011 - Wednesday

9.30 a.m. - Prema Rangarajan - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin, Melakaveri K. Balaji - Mridangam

12.00 Noon - Anirudh Venkatesh - Vocal, Siva Ramamurthy - Violin, K.S. Ramana - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan - Vocal, R. Rahul - Violin, A.M. Harinarayanan - Mridangam

3.00 p.m. - Nisha Rajagopal - Vocal, Dr. Jyotsna - Violin, Sai Giridhar - Mridangam, G. Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam

6.00 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal, V.V. Ravi - Violin, Trichy B. Harikumar - Mridangam

Dec. 29, 2011 - Thursday

9.30 a.m. - Sreevalsan J Menon - Vocal, V.V. Ravi - Violin, Tanjore Ramadas - Mridangam, Papanasam S. Sethuraman - Kanjira

12.00 Noon - Pallavi Prasanna Madhyastha - Vocal, Anuthama Murali - Violin, K. Parthasarathy - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Rithvik Raja - Vocal, M. Vijay - Violin, Palakad A.M. Harinarayanan

3.00 p.m. - Prasanna Venkataraman - Vocal, Trivandrum Sampath - Violin, R. Sankaranarayanan - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - Nandanar Charithram - Sangeetha Upanyasam by

Vishaka Hari, B. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam, Sukanya Ramgopal - Ghatam

Dec. 30, 2011 - Friday

9.30 a.m. - T.V. Ramprasadh - Vocal, T.K.V. Ramanujacharyulu - Violin, - H.S. Sudhindra - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira

12.00 Noon - Arvind Sridhar - Vocal, Sa. Raghavasimhan - Violin, G. Krithivasan - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - J.B. Sruthi Sagar - Flute, R. Rahul - Violin, B. Srivatsan - Mridangam

3.00 p.m. - Sankar Ramani - Vocal, A.G. Venkatasubramaniam - Violin, - R. Sankaranarayanan - Mridangam, G. Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam

6.00 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayathri - Vocal, H.N. Bhaskar - Violin, H.S. Sudhindra - Mridangam, N. Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 31, 2011 - Saturday

9.30 a.m. - Mambalam Sisters - Vijayalakshmi & Chitra - Vocal, R. Hemalatha - Violin, Nellai A. Balaji - Mridangam, K.S. Rangachari - Kanjira

12.00 Noon - Sidharth Sriram - Vocal, Sriram Sridharan - Violin, Sanjay Subramaniam Mridangam - Mridangam

1.30 p.m. - Iyer Sisters Srividya & Sudha - Vocal, K.J. Dilip - Violin, Tanjore Praveenkumar - Mridangam

3.00 p.m. - Sandeep Narayanan - Vocal, M. Vijay - Violin, Nirmal Narayanan - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan - Vocal, M. Chandrasekaran - Violin, T.K. Murthy - Mridangam, B. Sreesundarkumar - Kanjira

Jan. 1, 2012 - Sunday

9.30 a.m. - Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi - Violin Duet, T.V. Gopalakrishnan - Mridangam, V. Suresh - Ghatam

2.00 p.m. - Swarna Rethas - Vocal, B. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Nirmal Narayanan - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - K.J. Yesudas - Vocal, Nagai R. Muralidharan - Violin, Tiruvarur P. Bhakthavatsalam - Mridangam, Tirupanithura Radhakrishnan - Ghatam

Jan. 2, 2012 - Monday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Abirami Aru. Balasingam (Dis.of Narthaki Natraj)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Pallavi Sriram (Dis. of Chitra Visweswaran)

Jan. 3, 2012 - Tuesday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Vani Nagarajan (Dis.of K.J. Sarasa)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aishwarya Jayaraman (Dis.of Meenakshi Chitharanjan)

Jan. 4, 2012 - Wednesday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Malavika (Dis.of Sarayu Sai)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanrithyam by Smt. Varsha Suresh (Dis. of K.J. Sarasa)

Jan. 5, 2012 - Thursday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aarabhi Perinbanathan (Dis. of Narthaki Nataraj)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Swetha Varadarajan (Dis. of Archana Mahesh)

Jan. 6, 2012 - Friday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aishwarya Ramanan (Dis.of Divya Sena)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Radica Giri (Dis.of A. Lakshmanan)

Jan. 7, 2012 - Saturday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Ganesh Vasudeva (USA) (Dis.of Sreelatha Suresh)

7.15 p.m. - Sri Devi Nrithyalaya Students present Dance Ballet

Ravaneswaran. Choreography & Direction by Sheela Unnikrishnan

Jan. 8, 2012 - Sunday

5.45 p.m. - Kuchipudi Dance by Dr. Vasanthi Ravi (Dis.of Vempatti Ravishankar)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Deepti Ravichandran (Dis.of Sudharani Raghupathy)

Jan. 9, 2012 - Sunday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Sagarika Mani (Dis.of Sarayu Sai)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Purnima Balasubramaniam (Dis.of Lakshmi Ramaswamy)

Jan. 10, 2012 - Monday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by S. Divya (Dis.of Sarayu Sai)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Deepa Mahadevan (Dis. of Madurai Muralidharan)

Jan. 11, 2012 - Tuesday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Vaishnavi Ravishanker (Dis.of Savithri Jagannatha Rao)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Chitra Ramaswami (Dis. of Jayanthi Subramaniam)

Jan. 12, 2012 - Wednesday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Shobana Thiagarajan (Dis. of Archana Mahesh)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Sridevi Suresh (Dis. of Jayanthi Subramaniam)

Jan. 13, 2012 - Thursday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by T.A. Vvirraja &T.A. Vasudha (Dis.of Ranganayaki Jayaraman)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Divya Devagupthapu (Dis. of Shantha & V.P. Dhananjayan)

Jan. 14, 2012 - Friday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by V.N. Supriya (Dis. of A. Lakshmanan)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aparna Chithranjan (Dis. of Meenakshi Chitharanjan)

Jan. 15, 2012 - Saturday

5.45 p.m. - Mithila Dance Group Presents a thematic presentation

Tree - Direction Smt. Mythili

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Chinnamanur A. Chitra (Chidambaram)

Jan. 16, 2012 - Sunday

5.45 p.m. - Mohini Attam by Sunanda Nair(USA) (Dis. of Kanaka Rele, Bombay)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Preethi, Shivapriya, Namrata Naidu, K. Padamsee (Dis.of Ranganayaki Jayaraman)

Jan. 17, 2012 - Monday

5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Sangita Vasudevan (Dis. of Radha)

7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Pooja Allepalle (Dis. of Adyar Lakshmanan)