Naadhabrahmam Arts Festival 2011

Naadhabrahmam, a monthly music journal hosts its annual music festival Sangeetha Raga Mahothsavam in December every year.

This is their tenth year and the festival will be held from Dec. 7, 2011 to Dec. 18, 2011

Venue: Dakshinamurthy Auditorium, (P.S. High School campus), R.K. Mutt Road, Mylapore, Chennai - 4.

Go here for Naadhabrahmam's website.

The schedule of the concerts of the music festival is hereunder:

Dec. 7, 2011 Wednesday

6.00 p.m. - Inauguration and conferment of title 'Naada Ratna' on Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna

7.00 p.m. - Prof. C.V. Chandraskekhar (Bharatanaatyam)

Dec. 8, 2011 Thursday

4.30 p.m. - Dr. M. Narmadha - Violin solo - B. Ganapathi Raman - H. Sivaramakrishnan

6.45 p.m. - R.K. Srikantan (Vocal), Prof. R.S. Ramakanth (Vocal Support), M.A. Sundareswaran, Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman - Anirud Athreya

Dec. 9, 2011 Friday

4.30 p.m. - Uma Subramaniam (Vocal) - T.K.Padmanabhan - Trivandrum N. Hariharan

6.30 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), Mysore Srikanth - Srimushnam V. Rajarao

Alathur T.Rajaganesh

Dec. 10, 2011 Saturday

4.30 p.m. - T.K.Ramachandran (Vocal), M.A.Krishnaswamy - L. Radhakrishnan

6.45 p.m. - Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan (Vocal), Nagai R.Muralidharan - Dr.Trichy Sankaran - Trichy Murali

Dec. 11, 2011 Sunday

4.00 p.m. - Vichitra (Vocal) - Srilakshmi Venkatramani - B.Jayadev

5.05 p.m. - Various Faces of Annamacharya - Lec Dem by Dr. Paapu Venu Gopala Rao, Vocal Support- Ms. Aarthi and Ms. Archana

6.45 p.m. - Udayalur Kalyanarama Bagavathar Namasankeerthanam

Dec. 12, 2011 Monday

4.30 p.m. - P. Saisharan (Vocal) - V.L.V.Sudarsan - Salem Ranganathan

6.45 p.m. - K.Baskaran (Flute) - B.U. Ganesh Prasad - Bangalore V. Praveen - E.M. Subramainam

Dec. 13, 2011 Tuesday

4.30 p.m. - Dr. P.B. Kannakumar (Vocal) – Dr. M. Narmadha - J.Vaidyanathan

6.05 p.m. - Chandrika Srinivas (Bharatanaatyam)

7.30 p.m. - Aparna Pillai (Bharatanaatyam)

Dec. 14, 2011 Wednesday

4.30 p.m. - Kanakadurga Venkatesh (Vocal) - Jayanthi Keshav - T.K.Ramakrishnan

6.45 p.m. - Prince Rama Varma (Vocal) - S.Varadarajan - Trichy B. Harikumar - V. Suresh

Dec. 15, 2011 Thursday

4.30 p.m. - Radha Kalyanaraman (Vocal) - Kovai S. Chandran - Madurai Sundar

6.45 p.m. - O.S.Thayagarajan (Vocal) - T.K.V. Ramanujachariyalu - Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam - Vaikkom Gopalakrishan

Dec. 16, 2011 Friday

4.30 p.m. - K. Vrinda Acharya (Vocal) - Srilakshmi Venkatramani - Nanganallur R.Sriram

6.45 p.m. - Geetha Rajasekar (Vocal) - Dr.M.Narmadha - Tanjore Subramanian - H.Sivaramakrishnan

Dec. 17, 2011 Saturday

4.30 p.m. - Chandrika Srinivas (Vocal) - Thiruvallur V.Parthasarathy - Ammangudi Ramnarayanan

6.45 p.m. - Dr. Krishna Vageesh (Vocal) - Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi - Mannargudi A. Eswaran - C.S.Venkataramanan

Dec. 18, 2011 Sunday

4.25 p.m. - Kumari. Harini Krishnan (Vocal) - Villivakkam Raghuraman - Thirucherai R. Koushik

6.05 p.m. - Valedictory Function - Conferment of titles

'Naada Kovida' on Prof.T.R.Subramanyam

'Nrithya Kovida' on Prof. C.V.Chandrasekar

'Naada Sevika' on Dr.M.Narmadha

'Nrithya Sevika, on Ms. Kavitha Ramu

7.00 p.m. - Kumari.B.Saisruthi (Bharatanaatyam)