November 15, 2017

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Annual Cultural Festival 2017

Bhavan's Cultural Festival is hosted from the third week of November and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is one of the major sabhas that start the December Music Festival much earlier to the 'peak season.'

This year the festival is held from Nov. 18, 2017 to Dec. 13, 2017.

Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, East Mada Street, Mylapore, Chennai - 4

The Schedule:

Nov. 18, 2017 - Saturday
5.00 p.m. - Mangala Isai - Seshampatti Sivalingam & party
6.00 p.m. - Inauguration by Hon'ble Governor of Tamil Nadu Mr. Bamwarilal Purohit
7.00 p.m. - Aruna Sairam (Vocal)

Nov. 19, 2017 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Choir music by Madras Youth Choir
3.30 p.m. - Cuddalore S.J. Jananiy (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - B. Kannan (Veena)
6.45 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal)

Nov. 20, 2017 - Monday
3.30 p.m. - K. Sathyanarayanan (Keyboard)
5.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal)

Nov. 21, 2017 - Tuesday
3.30 p.m. - Padma Sugavanam (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - K. Gayatri (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone)

Nov. 22, 2017 - Wednesday
3.30 p.m. - Mahadevan Sankaranarayanan (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Radha Bhaskar (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Trichur Brothers - Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal)

Nov. 23, 2017 - Thursday
9.00 a.m. - Sathya Sai Birthday Celebration
10.00 a.m. - Aishwarya Srinivas (Vocal)
3.30 p.m. - Vishnudev Namboodri (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Subhashini Parthasarathy (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Tributes to Sathya Sai by Bharathanjali led by Anitha Guha

Nov. 24, 2017 - Friday
3.30 p.m. - R.P. Shravan (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Shobana Vignesh (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Sikkil Gurucharan (Vocal)

Nov. 25, 2017 - Saturday
3.30 p.m. - Chaitra Sairam (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Nisha Rajagopal (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Abishek Raghuram (Vocal)

Nov. 26, 2017 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Ramjhi's Issai Mazhalai - Sastriyamum Cinemavum
3.30 p.m. - Saaswathi Prabhu (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Laya Samarpanam by T.H. Vikku Vinayakram & troupe
6.45 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayatri (Vocal)

Nov. 27, 2017 - Monday
3.30 p.m. - Brinda Manickavasagan (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Sriram Parasuram (Hindustani Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - N. Vijay Siva (Vocal)

Nov. 28, 2017 - Tuesday
3.30 p.m. - Bhavan's choral music group led by Dr. Sudha Raja
5.00 p.m. - Chinmaya Sisters - Uma & Radhika (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy (Vocal)

Nov. 29, 2017 - Wednesday
5.00 p.m. - Jayashri Vaidyanathan (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Malladi Brothers - Sriramprasad & Ravikumar (Vocal)

Nov. 30, 2017 - Thursday
3.30 p.m. - Vasudha Ravi (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Dr. M. Narmada (Violin Solo)
6.45 p.m. - Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Vocal)

Dec. 1, 2017 - Friday
3.30 p.m. - Shreya Devnath (Violin Solo)
5.00 p.m. - Arunaprabha Ranganathan (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Haripriya & Shanmukhapriya (Vocal)

Dec. 2, 2017 - Saturday
3.30 p.m. - Amritha Sankaranarayanan (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Laya Madhuraa - By Tiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam & troupe
6.45 p.m. - Nithyashree Mahadevan (Vocal)

Dec. 3, 2017 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - HeArtBeat Ensemble by Dr. S. Karthik & troupe
3.30 p.m. - Bhajan Sandhya by Bakthaswara Bhajan Mandali
5.15 p.m. - Aishwarya Shankar (Vocal)
7.00 p.m. - Pantula Rama (Vocal)

Dec. 4, 2017 - Monday
3.30 p.m. - Easwaran Namboodri (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - V. Deepika (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters - Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal)

Dec. 5, 2017 - Tuesday
3.30 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Gayathri Girish (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal)

Dec. 6, 2017 - Wednesday 
3.30 p.m. - Palakkad Sajiv (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Rithvik Raja (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - S. Sowmya (Vocal)

Dec. 7, 2017 - Thursday
3.30 p.m. - Subha Ganesan (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Geetha Rajashekar (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Dushyanth Sridhar (Musical discourse)

Dec. 8, 2017 - Friday
3.30 p.m. - Ashwath Narayanan (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - R. Prasanna (Guitar)
6.45 p.m. - O.S. Arun (Bhajan Sandhya)

Dec. 9, 2017 - Saturday
3.30 p.m. - Lavanya Sundararaman (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Geetha Raja (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal)

Dec. 10, 2017 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Vanavil Panpaattu maiyan - Bharathi Pancharatnam
3.30 p.m. - R. Suyraprakash (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Shertalai K.N. Renganatha Sharma (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Rajhesh Vaidhya (Veena)

Dec. 11, 2017 - Monday
3.30 p.m. - P.V. Parameswaran (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Krishnakumar & Binny Krishnakumar (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramanyam (Vocal)

Dec. 12, 2017 - Tuesday
5.00 p.m. - Saindhavi (Vocal)
6.45 p.m. - S. Mahathi (Vocal)

Dec. 13, 2017 - Wednesday
3.30 p.m. - Jayakrishnan (Vocal)
5.00 p.m. - Dr. M. Lalitha & M. Nandini (Violin Duet)
6.45 p.m. - A tribute to Kannadasan by Isai Kavi S.N. Ramanan

3 comments:

Jawahar said...

Bhartuya Vidya Bhavan Kutcheris are Free or Fee ? :)

Revathi R said...

Free. Seating first come first served.

CSK said...

Just now came for Sri. Vikku vinayagaram programme. Surprised to see Mr.Parasuram program. Atleast it could have been announced. That too from Bharatiya Bhavan . Hope rasikaas could be respected.

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