Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan - Sangeeth and Naatya Utsav, 2009

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai Kendra is conducting its Annual Sangeeth and Naatya Utsav, 2009 from Nov. 27, 2009 to Dec.14, 2009.
The Festival will be inaugurated by Mr. Andrew T. Simkin, Consul General of the United States of America. Sri T.S. Krishna Murthy, Chairman, Bhavan’s Chennai Kendra presides over the function. Sri V. Jagannathan, (CMD, Star Health Insurance), Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti and Ms. Leela Samsun, (Director,Kalaksetra) participate.

The entry for all the programmes are free.

Venue : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, East Mada Street, Mylapore, Chennai

The schedule of music and dance concerts is given below. The organiseres have not specified the details of accompaniments in the programme list. Please refer to the daily newspaper advertisement in The Hindu and other newspapers for the same.

Nov. 27, 2009 - Friday

• 5.00 p.m. - Seshampatti Sivalingam (Nadaswaram)
• 6.45 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal)

Nov. 28, 2009 - Saturday

• 5.00 p.m. - Sikkil Gurucharan (Vocal)
• 6.45 p.m. - Priya Sisters (Vocal)

Nov. 29, 2009 - Sunday

• 10.00 a.m. - Ramjhi's Isai Mazhalai Group - Sastriyamum Cinemavum
• 4.25 p.m. - B. Kannan (Veena)
• 6.15 p.m. - Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal)

Nov. 30, 2009 - Monday

• 5.00 p.m. - Chinmaya Sisters (Vocal)
• 6.15 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath (Saxaphone)

Dec. 1, 2009 - Tuesday

• 5.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters (Vocal)
  
• 7.00 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal)

Dec. 2, 2009 - Wednesday

• 5.00 p.m. - S. Mahati (Vocal)
• 6.30 p.m. - Anuradha Sriram & Sriram Parasuram (Jugalbandhi)

Dec. 3, 2009 - Thursday

• 5.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar (Vocal)
• 6.45 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal)

Dec. 4, 2009 - Friday

• 5.00 p.m. - Geetha Rajasekhar
  
• 6.45 p.m. - Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan (Vocal)

Dec.5, 2009 - Saturday

• 5.00 p.m. - Geetha Krishnamurthy (Veena)
  
• 7.00 p.m. - O.S. Arun (Bhajan Sandhya)

Dec. 6, 2009 - Sunday

• 10.00 - 'Ghatam' Karthic's HeArtbeat' Ensemble
• 4.25 p.m. - Dr. M. Narmada (Violin)
  
• 6.30 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal)

Dec. 7, 2009 - Monday

• 5.00 p.m. - Isai Payanam - Charulatha Mani
• 7.00 p.m. - Rajesh Vaidhya (Veena)
  

Dec. 8, 2009 - Tuesday

• 5.00 p.m. - Kaaraikudi Mani presents 'Shanmukha' Ensemble
  
• 6.45 p.m. - Pantula Rama - Vocal

Dec. 9, 2009 - Wednesday

• 5.00 p.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam (Vocal)
• 6.45 p.m. - Ganesh & Kumaresh (Violin)

Dec. 10, 2009 - Thursday

• 5.00 p.m. - S.R. Veeraraghavan (Vocal)
• 6.45 p.m. - R. Prasanna (Guitar)
  

Dec.11, 2009 - Friday

• 5.00 p.m. - Kanyakumari (Violin)
• 6.30 p.m. - Keiko Watanbe (Kuchipudi)
• 7.30 p.m. - Kalapradarshini presents thematic Bharatanatyam performance

Dec.12, 2009 - Saturday

• 5.00 p.m. - Anjan Saha (Sitar)
• 6.00 p.m. - Kaberi Sen (Odissi)
• 7.15 p.m. - Rajeshwari Sainath & Troupe - Bharatanatyam

Dec.13, 2009 - Sunday

• 10.00 a.m. - Disciples of Ranganayaki Jayaraman - Bharatanatyam
• 4.25 p.m. - Karthik Raju - Vocal
• 6.00 p.m. - Divya Kasturi (Kathak)
• 7.15 p.m. - Krishnakumari Narendran's Troupe - Bharatanatyam

Dec.14, 2009 - Monday

• 5.00 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan (Vocal)
• 6.30 p.m. - Vipina Ramachandran (Mohiniattam)
• 7.30 p.m. - Roja Kannan & Troupe (Bharatanatyam)

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