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November 29, 2017

Kartik Fine Arts - Art Festival 2017

The 43rd year of Art Festival of Kartik Fine Arts will be held from Dec. 1, 2017 to Jan. 5, 2018.

Donor passes available for programmes at Narada Gana Sabha Hall only (1-12-2017 to 13-12-2017) Contact: 9840358805.

Venue: Please refer the respective dates below:

Dec. 1, 2017 - Friday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
6.00 p.m. - Inauguration
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam Dance Recital by Ramaa Adhithi Venkat (Disciple of S.K.Kameswaran and Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam) and Samyuktha Raman (Daughter and disp. of Ramaa Adhithi Venkat)

Dec. 2, 2017 - Saturday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. -  S. Mahathi (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam), Trichy Krishnaswamy (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - Sridevi Nrithyalaya presents ‘Sri Krishna Vaibhavam’ A dance drama, Choreographed by Sheela Unnikrishnan

Dec.3, 2017 - Sunday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal), Akkarai Subhalakshmi (Violin), Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam)
6.45 p.m. - Bharathanjali & Cleveland Aradhana presents Vijayayathe Gopala Chudamani - Music: Neyveli Santhanagopalan. Lyrics: P.R. Venkatasubramanian. Concept & Choreography: Anitha Guha

Dec. 4, 2017 - Monday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. -  Akkarai Sisters- Subhalakshmi and Sornalatha (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Patri Satish Kumar(Mridangam), Dr.S. Karthick (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - Malladi Brothers Sreeramprasad and Ravikumar (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

Dec. 5, 2017 - Tuesday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy (Vocal), S. Varadharajan (Violin), K. Arunprakash (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
6.45 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal), Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), B.Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec. 6, 2017 - Wednesday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - S. Saketha Raman (Vocal), S. Varadharajan (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam), S.V. Ramani (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. -  A. Kanyakumari & Party (Violin Duet)

Dec. 7, 2017 - Thursday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - K. Bharat Sundar (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin), Thiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
6.45 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin),Neyveli Skanda Subramaniam (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

Dec. 8, 2017 - Friday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - Nauka Charitram' by Dushyanth Sridhar (Katha), with Anahita and Apoorva (Vocal), K. Sayee Rakshith (Violin), Burra Sriram (Mridangam)
6.45 p.m. - N. Vijay Siva (Vocal), R.K. Shriram Kumar (Violin), Trichy S. Sankaran (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

Dec. 9, 2017 - Saturday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
6.00 p.m. - Aruna Sairam (Vocal), R.K. Shriram Kumar (Violin), K. Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), S.V. Ramani (Ghatam)

Dec. 10, 2017 - Sunday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan (Vocal), H.N.Bhaskar (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), Guru Prasanna (Kanjira)
6.45 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal), R. Raghul  (Violin), Nanjil Arul (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

Dec. 11, 2017 - Monday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
6.30 p.m. - Dr.K.J. Yesudas (Vocal), S.R. Mahadeva Sharma (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Thirupunithura Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 12, 2017 - Tuesday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan and Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), D.V. Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal), B.V. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam), R. Raman (Morsing)

Dec. 13, 2017 - Wednesday
Narada Gana Sabha Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - Gayathri Girish (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), Poongulam S. Subramaniam (Mridangam), B. Sreesundar Kumar (Kanjira)
6.45 p.m -  'Muktha Ramana' – A Dance Production by Dr. Ambika Kameshwar with Artistes of RASA Chennai & RMCL Bengaluru

Dec. 14, 2017 - Thursday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. -  Mandolin Sisters Sreesha & Sreeusha (Mandolin), Thillaisthanam R. Suryanarayan (Mridangam), Nanganallur S. Swaminathan (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - Bhargavi Balsubramaniam (Vocal), T. Kishore (Violin), Madurai B. Sundar (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Vani Ramamurthy (Vocal), Shiva Ramamurthy (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. - H. Rathnaprabha (Vocal), C. Srinivasamurthy (Violin), Thiruvidaimarudur S. Sankaran (Mridangam), Madipakkam Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Vasumathi Desikan (Vocal), Shraddha Ravindran (Violin), M.S. Venkatasubramanian (Mridangam),  B. Subbarao (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
5.00 p.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Trivandrum Balaji (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)
7.15 p.m. - Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan (Vocal), M. Chandrasekaran (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), Ravi Balasubramanian (Ghatam)

Dec. 15, 2017 - Friday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - J.B. Keerthana (Vocal) & J.B. Sruthi Sagar (Flute), R. Raghul (Violin), Uzhavur P.K. Babu (Mridangam), S. Harihara
Subramaniam (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - Sri Varalakshmi (Keyboard), G. Sureshkumar (Violin), Pappu Satyadev (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Swetha Balasubramaniam (Vocal), Thirucherai Karthik (Violin), B. Saishankar (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. - N.J. Nandhini (Vocal), Shraddha Ravindran (Violin), Thanjavur Praveen Kumar (Mridangam), G. Ravichandran (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Dr. Shuba Ganesan (Vocal), Meera Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), Nellai Balaji (Mridangam), Nanganallur Swaminathan (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
5.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal), Dr.R. Hemalatha (Violin), Melakkaveri K. Balaji (Mridangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - O.S. Thiagarajan (Vocal), V.V. Ravi (Violin), Chidambaram S. Balashankar (Mridangam), Madipakkam A. Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 16, 2017 - Saturday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 am - Aishwarya Srinivas (Vocal), Vittal Rangan (Violin), N.C. Bharathwaj (Mridangam), D.V. Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - Swetha & Ramya (Vocal), Swetha Anadasivan (Violin), Arvind Kaushik (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - S. Dharini (Vocal), V. Deepika (Violin), B. Saishankar (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. - Subhasri Ramachandran (Vocal), H.V. Raghuram (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), H. Sivarama Krishnan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Nellai Balaji (Mridangam), G. Ravichandran (ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
4.30 p.m. -  Archana Narayanamurthy (Bharathanatyam)
6.00 p.m. - Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Bharathanatyam)
7.30 p.m. - Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala and disciples present  'Arthanari'. Music : Rajkumar Bharathi

Dec. 17, 2017 - Sunday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - R. Ashwath Narayanan (Vocal), Apoorva Krishnan (Violin),  Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam), S. Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. - Soundarya Chandrasekar (Vocal), Akilesh Chandrasekar (Violin), Aduthurai Guruprasad (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Shruthi Shankar Kumar (Vocal), Sruthi Sarathy (Violin), Rohit Prasad (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. - Brinda Manickavasagam (Vocal), Sahana Vasudevan (Violin), Thirucherai Kaushik Rajagopal (Mridangam), P. Giridhar Prasad (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Sankari Krishnan (Vocal), Anuradha Sridhar (Violin), Sherthalai Ananthakrishnan (Mridanagam), . Nerkunam Shankar (Kanjira)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
5.00 p.m. - Sambhavami Yuge Yuge Bharathanatyam Group dance. Composers Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan
& Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi. Choreographer Sangeetha Isvaran.
7.30 p.m. - Rama Vaidyanathan (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 18, 2017 - Monday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - Amrutha Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), S.P. Ananthapadmanabha (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridanagam), S. Venkataramanan (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. - Aditya Madhavan (Vocal), M. Sri ramya (Violin), Rohit Prasad (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  M. Raginisri (Vocal), Mysore V. Sangeetha (Violin), R. Ramkumar (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. - Nama Mahima -  Thematic Concert by Dr. N. Bhairavi (Vocal), S.P. Ananthapadmanabha (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Ernakulam Ramakrishnan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Geetha Raja (Vocal), Shreya Devnath (Violin), Mannarkoil J. Balaji (Mridangam), Adambakkam K. Shankar (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - Dr. Subashini Parthasarathy (Vocal), Kalpana Kishore (Violin), J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Shashank (Flute) & U. Rajesh (Mandolin), Guru Kaaraikudi Mani (Mridangam), Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam)

Dec. 19, 2017 - Tuesday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - Samyuktha Ranganathan (Vocal), Thirumarugal Dineshkumar (Violin), R. Akshay Ram (Mridangam), Madipakkam Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. -  Anirudh Venkatesh (Vocal), T.V. Sukanya (Violin), Srikar Chittari (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - K. Dharini (Vocal), M. Vijay (Violin), Akshay Anantha padmanabhan (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. - J.A. Jayanth (Flute), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Delhi V. Muthukumar (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam), Srirangam S. Kannan (Morsing)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
5.00 p.m. - Rithvik Raja (Vocal), R.K. Shriram Kumar (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin Duet), Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam), Giridhar Udupa (Kanjira)

Dec. 20, 2017 - Wednesday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - S.M.Vilasini (Vocal), Bombay V.Anand (Violin), Burra Sriram (Mridangam), Manikandan (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m - Madhu Iyer (Vocal), Kumbakodu Rajesh (Violin), Prasanna Venkatesh (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Sunil Gargyan (Vocal), Durai Srinivasan (Violin), Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. - Jayashree Vaidhyanathan (Vocal), Kovai S. Chandran (Violin), Thillaisthanam R. Suryanarayanan (Mridangam), N. Narasimhan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - P.V. Parameswaran (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), K.R. Ganesh (Mridangam), K.V.R.S. Mani (Kanjira)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
5.00 p.m. - Amritha Murali (Vocal), L.Ramakrishnan (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), Trivandrum Rajagopal (Ghatam) (ghatam)
7.00 p.m. - Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), T.V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam), G. Harihara Sharma (Kanjira)

Dec. 21, 2017 - Thursday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - Kalyanapuram Arvind (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam), Nerkunam Shankar (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. - R. Kalpalathika (Vocal), Meera Sundar (Violin), Trivandrum Hariharan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  Maharajapuram S. Ganesh Viswanathan (Vocal), Chidambaram G. Badrinath (Violin), N.C. Bharathwaj (Mridangam), S. Harihara Subramanian (Ghatam)
4.30 p.m - Akshay Padmanabhan (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), N.C. Bharatwaj (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Vishnudev Namboothiri (Vocal), H.M. Smitha (Violin), K. Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), Nanganallur Swaminathan (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
5.00 p.m. - K. Gayathri (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Thanjavur Praveen Kumar (Mridangam), H. Prasanna (Ghatam)
7.00 p.m. - Pantula Rama (Vocal), M.S.N. Murthy (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

Dec. 22, 2017 - Friday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - Deepika Varadarajan (Vocal),  M. Vijay Ganesh (Violin),  J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam),  Nerkunam Shankar (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. -  N.S. Kamakshi –  Thirumarugal Ganeshkumar (Violin), Ashwin Ramaswamy (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  M. Roopa Shastri (Vocal),  Srividya R.S. Iyer (Violin), Umaiyalpuram V. Kalyanaraman (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. -  D.B. Ashwin  (Vocal), Nishant Chandran (Violin), Trivandrum Balaji (Mridangam), Trivandrum Rajagopal (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. -  Shankar Ramani (Vocal),  Charulatha Ramanujam  (Violin), Vijay Ganesh (Mridangam),  S. Venkataramanan (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
5.00 p.m. -  Inauguration of Natyadarshan – Dance Seminar – Presentation of Madura Kala Mani Award
Instituted in memory of Vidwan Madurai Sri N. Krishnan by Mrs G.V. Aparna to Sheela Unnikrishnan. Lifetime achievement award to Mr. Ramli Ibrahim
Nrityajyoti Award of Excellence in Bharatanatyam to Sulakshna Jayaram. Conferment of Natya Chudar title on Ms. K.R. Manasvini
6.00 p.m. -  Dance Performance
07.00 p.m. -  Dance Performance

Dec. 23, 2017 - Saturday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
8.00 a.m. - Harinama Sankeerthanam by Kumbakonam by Anantharama Bhagavathar
10.00 a.m. - Anahitha & Apoorva (Vocal), M. Vijay (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam), Manikandan (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. -  Bhavana Iyer (Vocal), Dr. Harini Srivatsa (Violin), Mannargudi V. Sreyas (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  Lavanya Sundararaman (Vocal), Shraddha Ravindran (Violin), Thanjavur Praveen Kumar (Mridangam),  K.R. Sivaramakrishna (Ghatam)
4.30 p.m. -  Calcutta K. Srividhya (Vocal),  V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), Kallidaikurichi S. Shivakumar (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. -  Thiruvidaimarudur Radhakrishnan (Vocal), V.L. Sudarsan (Violin), V.R. Jayakumar (Mridangam), Ernakulam Ramakrishnan (Mridangam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
10.00 a.m. - 01.00 p.m.  -  Natyadarshan Dance Seminar -  Lecture Demonstrations
Evening  Natyadarshan Dance Seminar Performances

Dec. 24, 2017 - Sunday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
8.00 a.m. - Harinama Sankeerthanam by Kumbakonam  Anantharama Bhagavathar
10.00 a.m. - Vignesh Ishwar (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam),  G. Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. -  Sindhuja (Vocal),  T. Kishore (Violin), G. Prithvi Raj (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  V. Venkata Nagarajan (Vocal), K. Sai Rakshith (Violin), B.S. Prashanth (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. -  Sangeetha Swaminathan (Vocal), R. Raghul  (Violin), Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam), Adambakkam K. Shankar (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. -   Dr. R. Ganesh (Vocal), Bharathi Gopalakrishnan (Violin), K.R. Ganesh (Mridangam), Adambakkam K. Shankar (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
10.00 am 1.00 p.m.  - Natyadarshan Dance Seminar -  Lecture Demonstrations
Evening Natyadarshan Dance Seminar Performances

Dec.25, 2017 - Monday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - N. Harish (Vocal), Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam (Violin),  Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam), K. Sai Natarajan (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. -  S.K. Mahathi (Vocal), C.K. Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Vignesh Srinivasan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  Vivek Sadasivam (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), B.S. Prashanth (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. -  V. Shankaranarayanan (Vocal),  V. Sanjeev (Violin), Sherthalai Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam),  D.V. Venkatasubramanian (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. -  R. Surya Prakash (Vocal), Durai Balasubramaniam (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Trivandrum Rajagopal (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
10.00 a.m. - Mathioli Book Release function
3.00 p.m. -  Sudha V. Lakxmi (Bharathanatyam)
4.30 p.m. -  Sangita Vasudevan (Bharathanatyam)
6.00 p.m. -  Sailaja (Kuchipudi)
7.30 p.m. -  Chitra Visweswaran presents her Chidambaram Dance Company in ‘Anubhuti The Ultimate Experience’. Dancers : Vidya Anand, Uma Nambudripad Sathyanarayanan, Jai Quehaeni, Sharmada Viswanath, Sneha Chakrapani & Sanatkumar.

Dec.26, 2017 - Tuesday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), S. Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. -  Archana & Aarathi (Vocal), Pappu Gyandev (Violin), Gomathi Shankar (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  Karthik Raju (Vocal), Thirumarugal Ganesh Kumar (Violin), Sriram Srinivasan (Mridangam)
4.30 p.m. -  S.R. Mahadeva Sharma & S.R. Rajasree (Violin Duet), Umayalpuram Mali (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. -  Iyer Brothers Ramnath Iyer & Gopinath Iyer (Veena Duet),  Chidambaram S. Balashankar (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
Tamil Isai Vizha
4.30 p.m. -  Swetha Prachande (Bharathanatyam)
5.45 p.m. -  22nd Tamil Isai Vizha Inauguration
7.15 p.m. -   Nisha Rajagopalan (Vocal), Kumbakonam M.R.Gopinath (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), S. Sunil Kumar

Dec. 27, 2017 - Wednesday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - Girija Shankar (Vocal),  B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin),  S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), N. Rajaraman (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. -  Veena Venkataramani (Veena), Kishore Ramesh (Mridangam), K. Ranganathan (Ghatam)
02.00 p.m. -  Shraddha Mohan (Vocal), Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), N.C. Bharathwaj (Mridangam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall (2nd Floor)
Tamil Isai Vizha
4.30 p.m. -  K. Sathyanarayana (Keyboard), K.Sai Rakshith (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam), Naveen Kumar (Tabla)
6.30 p.m. - Dr. Seerkazhi G. Sivachidambaram & party (TAMIL ISAI)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
3.00 p.m. -  Shreya Iyer (Bharathanatyam)
4.30 p.m. -  Presentation of ‘TRISHAKTHI’ by Vanishree Ravishankar & Padmaja Suresh and group
6.00 p.m. - Srekala Bharath (Bharathanatyam)
7.30 p.m. -  Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam and her disciples (Bharatanrityam)

Dec. 28, 2017 - Thursday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m.  - Subhiksha Rangarajan (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Trivandrum Balaji (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. -  Sreyas Sridhar (Flute), Mullaivasal  G. Chandramouli (Violin), G. Harihara Sharma (Mridangam), B. Subba Rao (Ghatam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)
2.00 p.m. -  Balu Masti (Veena), Madipakkam Suresh (Mridangam), N. Rajaraman (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall (2nd Floor)
Tamil Isai Vizha
4.30 p.m. -  Amrutha Venkatesh (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam),  H. Prasanna (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. -  Prema Rangarajan (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
3.00 p.m. -  Mahalakshmi Aswin of Tapas (Bharathanatyam)
4.30 p.m. -  Shamugasundram (Bharathanatyam)
6.00 p.m. -  "Beyond the Obvious" The Story of Warrior and Princess, an Unique dance presentation of Kalari and Gatka by Vyshanavie Sainath & Amrender Singh
7.30 p.m. -  Priyadarshini Govind (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 29, 2017 - Friday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall 
10.00 a.m. - Ananya Ashok (Vocal), Sruthi Sarathy (Violin), K.H. Vineeth (Mridangam),  K.R. Sivaramakrishna (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. -  Guhan Venkataraman (Veena), Nagai Narayanan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  Sahana Samraj (Vocal), Srividya R.S. Iyer (Violin), Srivanchiam Sriram (Mridangam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall (2nd Floor)
Tamil Isai Vizha
4.30 p.m. -  Sriram Parthasarathy (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), K. Sai Giridhar (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. -  Dr. M. Narmadha (Violin Solo), Neyveli Ramkumar (Mridangam), N. Sundar (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
3.00 p.m. -  Varsha (Bharathanatyam)
4.30 p.m. -  Hema Nandhini (Bharathanatyam)
5.45 p.m. -  Bala Devi Chandrashekar "Brihadeeswara - form to formless’ thru the eyes of a Devaradiyal" (Bharathanatyam)
7.30 p.m. - A tribute to Dr. Balamuralikrishna (Compositions of Dr. Balamuralikrishna) by Shobana (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 30, 2017 - Saturday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall
10.00 a.m. - Kruthi Bhat (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Vocal), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. -  Sahana Prasanna (Vocal), Delhi R. Sridhar (Violin), T. Karthik (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. – Aishwarya and Soundarya (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin), Arjun Raghavan (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall (2nd Floor)
Tamil Isai Vizha
4.30 p.m. -  Dr. Krishnakumar (Vocal), V.L. Kumar (Violin), A.S. Ranganathan (Mridangam), S. Venkatramanan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Savitha Sriram (Abhang), Anaiampatti G. Venkatasubramanian (Violin), Burra Sriram (Mridangam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
3.00 p.m. -  K.R. Manasvini (Bharathanatyam)
4.30 p.m. -  Archana Nagesh (Bharathanatyam)
6.00 p.m. -  Mythili Prakash (Bharathanatyam)
7.30 p.m. -  Pallavi Krishnan (Mohiniattam)

Dec. 31, 2017 - Sunday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall - NRI Concerts
10.00 a.m. - Sharanya Sriram (Vocal), Thirucherai Kartik (Violin), Nikshith T. Puttur (Mridangam)
11.30 a.m. - Akshay Sridhar (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin), Guru Arvind (Mridangam)
1.00 p.m. -  Govinda Kakulapathi (Vocal), M. Sriramya (Violin), D.V. Sivaraman (Mridangam)
2.30 p.m. -  Sarada Karthik (Vocal),  C.V. Krishna Subramaniam (Violin), Sivagangai Vishwak (Mridangam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall (2nd Floor)
Tamil Isai Vizha
4.30 p.m. -  Shreya Devnath (Violin), Nellai A. Balaji (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. -  Sherthalai Dr. K.N. Ranganatha Sharma (Vocal), S. Varadharajan (Violin), Thanjavur Murugabhoopathy (Mridangam), Vellattanjoor Sreejith (Ghatam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
3.00 p.m. - Thematic presentation "Thyagaraja Vaibhavam" by Sudha Vijayakumar and students
4.30 p.m. -  Srichitra Madhavan (Bharathanatyam)
6.00 p.m. -  Sulakshana Jayaram (Bharathanatyam)
7.30 p.m. -  Leela Samson (Bharathanatyam)

Jan. 1, 2018 - Monday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall - NRI Concerts
10.00 a.m. - Aparna Balaji (Vocal), Delhi R. Sridhar (Violin), Kumbakonam Ramakrishnan (Mridangam)
11.30 a.m. - Lakshmi Kumaraguruparan (Violin), R. Gokulakrishnan (Violin), Rohit Ashok (Mridangam)
1.00 p.m. -  Jahnavi Murali (Vocal),  C.S. Chinmayi  (Violin), Jayendra Kumar (Mridangam)
2.30 p.m. -  R. Rathipriya (Vocal), Bhargav Vignesh (Violin), Sivagangai K. Vishvak (Mridangam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall (2nd Floor)
Tamil Isai Vizha
4.30 p.m. -  Bhushany Kalyanaraman (Vocal), Pakala Ramadas (Violin), A.S. Ranganathan (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)
6.30 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone),  A. Kanyakumari (Violin), Triplicane K. Sekar (Thavil), Rajendra Nakod (Tabla), B. Rajasekar (Morsing)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
4.30 p.m. -  "Chidambara Kuravanji" dance by Padmalaksshme Suresh and disciples
6.00 p.m. -  Bhavya Ramachandran .T (Balasubramanian) (Bharatanatyam)
7.30 p.m. -  Nithya Kalyani (Bharatanatyam)

Dec. 2, 2018 - Tuesday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mini Hall 
10.00 a.m. - Rishabh Ranganathan (Violin Solo), Sannath Parameswaran (Mridangam)
11.30 a.m. – V. Kripaa Lakshmi (Vocal), Mithuran Manoharan (Violin), Akshay Venkatesh (Mridangam)
1.00 p.m. -  S. Adithya Narayanan (Vocal),  Vignesh Thyagarajan (Violin), Thirucherai Kaushik Rajagopal (Mridangam)
2.30 p.m. -  Manasa Suresh (Vocal), Meera Sundar (Violin), K.S. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - Preethi Ramaprasad (Bharatanatyam)
6.00 p.m. - Dr. Jyotsna Jagannathan (Bharatanatyam)
7.30 p.m. -  Navya Natarajan (Bharatanatyam)

Jan. 3, 2018 - Wednesday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - "Sri Krishna" dance drama by Balagurunathan and disciples
6.00 p.m. - Kavitha Ramu (Bharatanatyam)
7.30 p.m. - Usha Suresh Balaje(Mohiniattam)

Jan. 4, 2018 - Thursday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
4.30 p.m. -  Dakshayani Ramachandran's Nrithyaarpuna presents "Hari smaranam"
6.00 p.m. - Aswini Viswanathan (Bharatanatyam)
7.30 p.m. -  Thematic Production COLOURS by Padmini Krishnamurthy & Shivani Krishnamurthy

Jan. 5, 2018 - Friday
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Main Hall
4.30 p.m. - J. Surya Narayana Murthy (Bharatanatyam)
6.00 p.m. - Lavanya Ananth (Bharatanatyam)
7.30 p.m. - Krithika Subrahmanian (Bharatanatyam)


Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha Isai Iyal Nataka Vizha 2017

Another long 'season' of music, dance and drama, is hosted by Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha in T. Nagar.

The concerts other than the ones at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. are open to all. Tickets for the evening concerts and season tickets are available at the venue.

Venue: Vani Mahal, 103, G.N. Chetty Road, T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017

The Schedule:

Dec. 10, 2017 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - S.M.Vilasini (Vocal), Villivakkam Raghuraman (Violin), R.Ramkumar (Mridangam)
1.00 p.m. - Sudarsan Ravi (Vocal), Chimayi (Violin), Malladi Sivanand (Mridangam),
2.15 p.m. - Vidhya Raghavan (Vocal), Sruti Sarathy (Violin), Kishore Ramesh (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Chaitrra Sairam (Vocal), M.Vijay (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam), Nerkunam Dr.S.Sankar (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), V.V.Srinivasa Rao (Violin), Thanjavur Muruga Bhoopathy (Mridangam), H.Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec.11, 2017 - Monday
1.00 p.m. - Hari Agnisarman Kappiyoor (Vocal), M.Shrikanth (Violin), Kiran R.Pai (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Rajeswary Shankar (Vocal), C.N.Srinivasamurthy (Violin), Uzhavoor P.K.Babu (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Brinda Manikavasakan (Vocal), Melakaveri K.Thyagarajan (Violin), Tanjore Praveen Kumar (Mridangam), i G.Harihara Sharma (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Dr. Shobana Vignesh (Vocal), Dr.M.Narmada (Violin), B.Ganapathyraman (Mridangam), Trichy K.Murali (Ghatam)

Dec.12, 2017 - Tuesday
1.00 p.m. - Sandhya Ramaswamy (Vocal), Poorna Prajna (Violin), R.Rajesh (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - T.Kalaimagan (Vocal), M.Shrikanth (Violin), Ambur Padmanabhan (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Vignesh Ishwar (Vocal), R.Raghul (Violin), N.C.Bhardwaj (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sahrma (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Sikkil C.Gurucharan (Vocal), L.Ramakrishnan (Violin), K.V.Prasad (Mridangam), G.Guruprasanna (Kanjira)

Dec.13, 2017 - Wednesday
1.00 p.m. - Janani Iyer (Vocal), K.Ganesan (Violin), Mannargudi V.Shreyas (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - K.Ranga (Vocal), Thirucherai Karthick (Violin), Akshy Ram (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Ragam Sisters - V.Sivaranjani & V.Nalinakanthi (Vocal), B.Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Hanumanthapuram J.Bhuvarahan (Mridangam), Giridhara Prasad (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - N Vijay Siva (Vocal), Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), N.C.Bhardwaj (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya(Kanjira)

Dec.14, 2017 - Thursday
1.00 p.m. - Krupaa Lakshmi (Vocal), C.Visvesh (Violin), Vignesh Srinivasan (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Uma Money (Vocal), Neela Jayakumar (Violin), V.R.Jayakumar (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Jayashri Vaidhyanathan (Vocal), Karaikal S.Venkatasubramanian (Violin), Manikkudi S.Chandrasekaran (Mridangam), N.Narasimhan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Ramakrishnan murthy (Vocal), H.N.Bhaskar (Violin), Anantha R.Krishnan (Mridangam), V.Suresh (Ghatam)

Dec. 15, 2017 - Friday
10.00 a.m. - Dr.Padma Sugavanam (Vocal), Shreya Devnath (Violin), B.Ganapathyraman (Mridangam), H.Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)
1.00 p.m. - Namagirpettai Gokulakrishnan (Vocal), Sharadha Krishnan (Violin), P. Balaji Sankaran (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - J.Sathya Sriram (Vocal), Thirumarugal Ganesh Kumar (Violin), Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Vani Ramamurthy (Vocal), Shiva Ramamurthy (Violin), Rohit Prasad (Mridangam), Harihara Subramanian (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Kunnakudi M.Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), B.U.Ganesh Prasad (Violin), R.Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), B Shree Sundar Kumar (Ghatam)

Dec. 16, 2017 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. -  Anjana Thirumalai (Vocal), Thirumarugal S.Dinesh Kumar (Violin), Nellai V.Sreekrishnan (Mridangam)
1.00 p.m. - Arjun Sambasivam & R.Narayanan (Key Board), Nagarkoil  Anand (Violin), Gomathi Shankar (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Students of Vani Sangeetha Gurukulam (Vocal), Parur M.K.Ananthalakshmi (Violin), R.Aravind Srikanth (Mridangam), Hari Kishore (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Dr. R.Ganesh (Vocal), Pudukottai R.Ambika Prasad (Violin), Madipakkam Suresh (Mridangam), Nanganallur S.Swaminathan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Bombay Jayashri Ramnath (Vocal), Mysore Srikanth (Violin), V.V.Ramanamurthy (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 17, 2017 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - 'Sthree Thall Tharang' present  'Laya Raga Samarpanam' by Ghata Tharang Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam & Konnakol), J.Yogavandana (Veena), Soumya Ramachandran (Violin), Ranjani Venkatesh (Mridangam), Bhagyalakshmi M.Krishna (Morsing)
1.00 p.m. - Adithya Madhavan (Vocal), Haritha Narayanan (Violin), Hari Iyer (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Anahitaha &.Apoorva (Vocal), Shreya Devnath (Violin), Burra Sriram (Mridangam), Harihara Sharma (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - UP Raju & Nagamani (Mandolin Duet), Ravichandhira OAM (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayathri (Vocal), H.N.Bhaskar (Violin), N Manoj Siva (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

Dec. 18, 2017 - Monday
1.00 p.m. - S.Ramkumar (Veena), Prasanna Venkatesh (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Sharnya Sriram (Vocal), Chaidambaram G.Badrinath (Violin), Srivanchiam R.Sriram (Mridangam), Chidambaram D.Srikanth (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Sushma Somasekaran (Vocal), Parur Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Akshay Ananthapdmanabhan (Mridangam), G.Ravichandran (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Abishek Raghuram (Vocal), H.N.Bhaskar (Violin), Anantha R.Krishnan (Mridangam), Shree Sundar Kumar B (Kanjira)

Dec. 19, 2017 - Tuesday
1.00 p.m. - Ameya Karthikeyan (Vocal), Aparna Thyagarajan (Violin), Jeyndra Kumar (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Shruti S.Bhat (Vocal), V.Deepika (Violin), Gomathi Sankar (Mridangam), Vasisht (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Chitra Poornima Satish (Vocal), Sharaddha Ravindran (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam), H.Prasanna (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Trichur Brothers - Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal), H.N.Bhaskar (Violin),Trichur R.Mohan (Mridangam), S.Venkataramanan (Kanjira)

Dec. 20, 2017 - Wednesday
1.00 p.m. - Rishabh Ranganathan (Violin Solo), Aditya Srinivasan (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Ramnath Venkat Bhagavath (Vocal), T.V. Sukanya (Violin), Madurai B.Sundar (Mridangam), Trivandrum N.Hariharan (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Shreya Devnath (Violin Solo), Melakkaveri K.Balaji (Mridangam), N.Rajaraman (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - O.S.Arun (Vocal), Mullaivasal Chandramouli (Violin), Sherthalai R.Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam), Dr. S.Karthick (Ghatam)

Dec. 21, 2017 - Thursday
1.00 p.m. - Ms. Veena Venkataramani (Veena), B.S.Prashanth (Mridangam), K.R.Sivaramakrishnan (Kanjira)
2.15 p.m. - Lakshmi Kumaraguruparan (Vocal), Pappu Gyandev (Violin), Sai Nivaeithan Ravichandhira(Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Srinivas (Vocal), Nishanth Chandran (Violin), Arjun Ganesh S.J. (Mridangam), A.S.Krishnan (Morsing)
6.30 p.m. - S.Mahathi (Vocal), K.J.Dileep (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), K.V.Gopalakrishnana (Kanjira)

Dec. 22, 2017 - Friday
10.00 a.m. - S.Srivatson (Vocal), G.Raghavendra Prasad (Violin), L.Subramanian (Mridangam)
1.00 p.m. - Karthick Raju (Vocal), Vignesh Thyagarajan (Violin), Sriram Srinivasan(Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Shruthi Shankar Kumar (Vocal), Anuthama Murali (Violin), Sreenath Vishwanath (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Rithvik Raja (Vocal), M.Rajeev (Violin), Tanjore Praveen Kumar (Mridangam), Dr. S.Karthick (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Sanjay Subramanian (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin),Thanjavur Murugabhoopathy (Mridangam), Perkavu P.L.Sudheer (Ghatam)

Dec. 23, 2017 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. - Bargav S.Hariharan (Vocal), Kovai Chandran (Violin), M.S.Venkatasubramanian (Mridangam),  D.V.Venkatasubramanian (Ghatam)
1.00 p.m. - Rangan Brothers- Raghuver & Narayan (Vocal), Tejas Srinivasan (Violin), Srikar Chittari (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Nishanth Thiagarajan (Vocal), Tumkur Bhargav (Violin), Arjun Narayanan (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), B.Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Dr. K.J..Yesudas (Vocal), S.R.Mahadeva Sarma (Violin), Tiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), Vaikom  Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 24, 2017 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Neyveli Radhakrishnan (Double Violin)
1.00 p.m. - Master U. Jaya Vignesh (Mandolin), Sai Sarangan Ravichandira (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Vaishnavi Ramdas (Vocal), Delhi R.Sridhar (Violin), Thirucherai Kaushik (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - V.Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), V.V.Ravi (Violin), Sherthalai R.Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam), Papanasam S.Sethuraman (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - S.Saketharaman (Vocal), Chrumathi Raghuraman (Violin), Neyveli R.Narayanan (Mridangam), V.Suresh(Ghatam)

Dec. 25, 2017 - Monday
10.00 a.m. - Lecture Demonnstration on composition of Thyagaraja by Gayathri Girish
1.00 p.m. - Sai Sisters - Saikiran & Sai Nivedita (Vocal), Pavani Anupindi (Violin), Mysore L.Vadiraj (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Amrutha Ranjani (Vocal)
4.00 p.m. - Kalyanapuram S.Aravind (Vocal), Anayampatti S.Venkatasubramanian (Violin), K.H.Vineeth (Mridangam), Nerkunam Dr.S.Sankar (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Shanmukhapriya & Haripriya (Vocal), M.A.Krishnaswamy (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 26, 2017 - Tuesday
10.00 a.m. - Lecture Demonstration on Namasankeerthan by Srimushna SriV.Raja Rao, S.Janakirama Bhagavathar, Sengottai Hariharasubramanian
1.00 p.m. - Hrishikesh Chari &Priyanka Chari (Veena Duet), Vikram Bharathi (Mridangam), Bharat Namboodri (Ghatam)
2.15 p.m. - Charnya Man Aditya (Vocal), Sahana Vasudevan (Violin), Sai Sarangan Ravichandhira (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Jayashri Jayaramakrishnan (Vocal), R.Kailasam (Violin),Thillaisthanam R.Suryanarayanan (Mridangam), N.Narasimhan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Sandeep Narayan (Vocal), B.U.Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Thiruvarur Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam), N.Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec. 27,  2017 - Wednesday
10.00 a.m. - Lecture Demonstration on composition of Muthuswamy Dikishitar by R.K.Shriramkumar
1.00 p.m. - Soundarya Chandrasekar (Vocal), Akilesh Chandrasekar (Violin), Sreyas Ramaswamy (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Sahana Samraj (Vocal), Mysore Sangeetha Dileep (Violin), Sreeduth S.Pillai (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Gayathri Satya (Vocal), Dr. M.Narmada (Violin), Arjun Ganesh S.J (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Sangeetha Upanyasam on Sri Raghavendra Vaibhavam by Visaka Hari, Trivandrum Sampath (Violin), Mudikondan S Ramesh (Veena), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam), Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)

Dec. 28, 2017 - Thursday
10.00 a.m. - Lecture Demonstration on A Comparative study between the kritis of Thyagaraj, Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri by  Sriram Parasuram
1.00 p.m. - K N Purushotham & Unnapakkam D Ayyapan (Nadasvaram), Sivanvayil S M Rajarattinam (Tavil), Tirunindravur S Vel (Tavil)
2.15 p.m. - Gayathri Govindarajan  & Ajay (Veena), Rohit Prasad (Mridangam), Ganapathy (Ghatam)
4.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath (Vocal), R.Raghul (Violin), R.Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), Nerkunam Dr. Sankar (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Malladi Brothers - Sriram Prasad & Ravikumar (Vocal), M.A.Sundareswaran (Violin), Tumkur B.Ravishankar (Mridangam), Trichy K.Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 29, 2017 - Friday
10.00 a.m. - Life History of Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar by Sri V.Sreeram
1.00 p.m. - Sakthi Ravitharan (Vocal), Srinath Kidambi (Violin), Santhosh Ravibharathy (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Aravind Sridhar (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin), B.S.Prashanth (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - A.Narayanan (Vocal), Sriram Sridhar (Violin), N.S.Kalyanaramn (Mridangam), Nanganallur Swamianthan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - U.Rajesh (Mandolin), Aridwaramangalam Dr. A.K.Palanivel (Spl. Thavil), V.V.Srinivasa Rao (Violin), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira), Praveen Narayanan (Tabla)

Dec. 30, 2017 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. - S.J.Jananiy (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), A.V.Manikandan (Mridangam), N.Rajaraman (Ghatam)
1.00 p.m. - Shwetha & Ramya (Vocal), Supraja Venkataraman (Violin), Pappu Satya Jeyadev (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Mathangi Rudhrakumar (Vocal), Malani Chandrasekara Sharma (Violin), Prasanaramapuram R.Raghunathan (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Sruthi Sagar & J.B. Keerthana (Flute & Vocal), Karaikkal S.Venkatasubramanian (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Gayathriri ri Venkataraghavan (Vocal), Mysore Srikanth (Violin), Neyveli Skanda Subramanian (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)

Dec. 31, 2017 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Venkata Nagarajan (Vocal), V.S.Gokul (Violin), B.SaiSankar (Mridangam)
1.00 p.m. - Chinmayi (Vocal), Virroshi Sriganesh (Violin), B.Raj Nivas (Mridangam),
2.15 p.m. - Maya & Malavi (Vocal), Mysore Sangeetha Dileep (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram Ganesh Vishwanthan (Vocal), Chidambaram Badrinath (Violin), Tanjore Kumar (Mridangam), S.Venkataramanan (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone), A. Kanyakumari (Violin), Triplicane K.Sekar (Spl.Thavil), Rajendra Nakod (Tabla), B.Rajasekar (Morsing)

Jan. 1, 2018 - Monday
10.00 a.m. - 'Ghatam' Karthick's Heartbeat Ensemble. Dr. S.Karthick (Ghatam, Konnakol and Vocal), U.P.Raju (Mandolin), Kumbakonam M.R.Gopinath (Violin), Palakkad K.L.Sreeram (Flute, Keyboard and Vocal),Triplicane K.Sekar (Thavil), R.Yogaraja (DinoCajon and Ganjira Drum), Sarvesh Karthick (Mrudangam, Cajon and Handsonic)
1.00 p.m. - Lakshmi Priya (Vocal), Abhishek Balakrishnan (Violin), Sivagangai K.Viswak (Mridangam)
2.15 p.m. - Nithyasri (Veena), Pappu Satya Jeyadev (Mridangam), Krishnapriya (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Dr. M.Narmada (Violin Solo), Poongulam Subramanian (Mridangam), H.Prasanna (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Akkarai Sisters - Subhalakshmi & Sornalatha (Vocal), L.Ramakrishnan (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), Gridhar Udupa (Ghatam)

Jan. 2, 2018 - Tuesday
1.00 p.m. - Cuddalore Vasudevan & Kariyamputhur K R Sundaramurthy (Nadasvaram), Cuddalore M P Ramadas (Tavil), Tindivanam T N Saravanan (Tavil)
2.15 p.m. - M.V.S.Nisha (Vocal), Sayee Rakshith (Violin), J.Aravind (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Essentailly Divine Music concert by Saashwathi Prabhu (Vocal), Vijay Ganesh (Violin), Arjun Ganesh S.J (Mridangam), N.Sundar (Tabla)
6.30 p.m. - A.Kanyakumari & L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam)

Jan. 3, 2018 - Wednesday
1.00 p.m. Agaramthen A G Shanmugam & Orapakam T Manikandan (Nadasvaram), Nandambakkam H Dakshinamurthy (Tavil),Tirunirmalai B Mani (Tavil)
2.15 p.m. - Pooja Suresh & Supraja Suresh (Vocal), N.Madan Mohan (Violin), Hariharan Sundarraman (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - J.A Jayanth (Flute), Parur Ananthakrishnan (Violin), R.Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), Chandrsekara Sharma (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Sangeerthana Kutcheri - K.N.Shashikiran & P.Ganesh with Sengottai Sri Harihara Subramanian V.V.S.Murari (Violin), Thanjavur Murugabhoopathy (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)

Jan. 4, 2018 - Thursday
6.30 p.m. - Crazy Creations present Drama - Crazy Mohan & Maadhu Balaji

Jan. 5, 2018 - Friday
6.30 p.m. - U A A Prsents Y.GEE Mahendra in Ragasiyam Parama Ragasiyam - Drama

Jan. 6, 2018 - Saturday
6.30 p.m. -  Aruna Sairam (Vocal), Apoorva Krishna (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

Jan. 7, 2018 - Sunday
6.30 p.m. - Dummies Drama presents Drama

Jan. 8, 2018 - Monday
6.30 p.m. - Srekala Bharath - Bharatanatyam

Jan. 9, 2018 - Tuesday
6.30 p.m. - Diksha Reddy (Kuchipudi)

Jan. 10, 2018 - Wednesday 
6.30 p.m. -

Jan.11, 2018 - Thursday
6.30 p.m. -

Jan.12, 2018 - Friday
6.30 p.m. - Urmila Satyanarayanan & the Natya Sankalpaa ensemble present SABHA PATHY - Dance Drama

Jan. 13, 2018 - Saturday
6.30 p.m. - Roja Kannan & Disciples present 'Mummoorthigalin Manikkangal' - Programme based on kirtanams of the Trinity

Jan. 14, 2018 - Sunday
6.30 p.m. - Sridevi Nrithyalaya presents SIVAMAYAM. Concept & Choreography - Sheela Unnikrishnan


November 28, 2017

The Mylapore Fine Arts Club Art Festival 2017

The 66th year Art Festival of The Mylapore Fine Arts Club will be held from Dec. 11, 2017 to Jan. 17, 2018.

After a grand music season, the dance recitals take over from Jan. 1.

The concerts till 1.30 p.m. are not ticketed and the evening concerts from 4 p.m. require entry tickets.
Season Tickets : Reserved – Rs.7,080 Unreserved – Rs.1,770 (per ticket)
Season Tickets available from 01.12.2017 onwards at the Sabha Office
Sabha Working Hours: 9.00 AM to 11.00 AM & 5.00 PM to 8.00 PM

Venue: The Mylapore Fine Arts Club, 45, Musiri Subramaniam Road, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004

The Schedule:

Dec.11, 2017 - Monday
5.00 p.m. -  Srimat Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj (Vice President, Worldwide Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission, Howrah, West Bengal) Inaugurates and confers the Titles:
'Sangeetha Kala Nipuna' on Karaikudi R. Mani
'Nrithya Kala Nipuna' on Krishnakumari Narendran
Felicitations by Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam
Distribution of Prizes to Winners of Music Competition
7.00 p.m. - Urmila Sathyanarayanan and the Natya Sankalpaa ensemble present Sabhapathy - Dance drama

Dec.12, 2017 - Tuesday
9.30 a.m. - Aishwarya Srinivas (Vocal), V.V.S Murari (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)
12.00 Noon - R. Sai Vignesh (Vocal), Durai Srinivasan (Violin), Sai Raghavan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - R. Rathipriya (Vocal), Shradda Ravindran (Violin), Karthik Ganeshram (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Dr. S. Srinivasan (Veena), Trichur C. Narendran (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - O.S. Thiagarajan (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), B. Harikumar (Mridangam), Ernakulam Ramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 13, 2017 - Wednesday
9.30 a.m. -  Easwaran Bhattathiri (Vocal), M.R. Gopinath (Violin), Bangalore V. Praveen (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon -  Swetha Balasubramaniam (Vocal), Shruthi Sarathy (Violin), T.R. Arvind Kaushik (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - K. Subhiksha (Vocal), Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), Burra Sriram (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Sherthalai Ranganatha Sharma (Vocal), V.V. Ravi (Violin), Thanjavur Ramadas (Mridangam), Ernakulam Ramakrishnan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - O.S. Arun (Vocal), Mullaivasal Dr. G. Chandramouli (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 14, 2017 - Thursday
9.30 a.m. - Dr. Niranjana Srinivasan (Vocal), Melakaveri K. Thiagarajan (Violin), T.R.S. Manikiandan (Mridangam)
12.00 Noon - Sahana Samraj (Vocal), K. Sundararajan (Violin), Thirumalam Sundaram (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Adayar J. Venkatesh & J. Balasubramani (Nadaswaram), Adayar D. Senthilkumar & T. Saravanan (Tavil)
4.00 p.m. - Dr. Prema Rangarajan (Vocal), Padma Shankar (Violin),  Mannarkoil J. Balaji (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar (Vocal), R.K. Sriramkumar (Violin), Melakaveri K. Balaji (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec. 15, 2017 -  Friday
9.30 a.m. - G. Ravikiran (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violini), – Mannargudi A. Eswaran (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
12.00 Noon - Swathy Krishnamoorthy (Vocal), Raghavasimhan (Violin), B.S. Prashanth (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - N. Jayakrishnan (Vocal), Pappu Gyandev (Violin), Sridutt S. Pillai (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Dr. Subhashini Parthasarathy (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), Thiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)

Dec. 16, 2017 - Saturday
9.30 a.m. -  Jayashri Vaidyanathan (Vocal), Meera Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), Manikudi Chandrasekaran (Mridangam), Hariharasubramaniam (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon - R. Rajiv (Vocal), H.V. Raghuram (Violin), Rohit Prasad (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Karthika Vaidyanathan (Vocal), Vishwesh Swaminathan (Violin), Trivandrum D. Rajagopal (Ghatam)
4.00 p.m. - R. Suryaprakash (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), S. Venkataramanan (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayatri (Vocal), Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 17, 2017 - Sunday
9.30 a.m. - Shankar Ramani (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), Sherthalai R. Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam), Hariharasubramaniam (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon - Archana & Aarathi (Vocal), Sayee Rakshith (Violin), Sai Shankar (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - V. Venkatanagarajan (Vocal), Sriram Sridhar (Violin), Akshay Ram (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - S. Mahathi (Vocal), K.J. Dilip (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad & Ravikumar (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), Trichy S. Sankaran (Mridangam)

Dec. 18, 2017 - Monday 
9.30 a.m. - Aishwarya Shankar (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), – Kolkata Arvind Ranganathan (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
12.00 Noon - Arjun Sambasivam & K. Narayanan (Keyboard), Nagerkoil Anand (Violin), Gomathishankar (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Krithika Natarajan (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamori (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - K. Bharatsundar (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Vazhapalli Krishnakumar (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers D. Seshachari & D. Raghavachari (Vocal), V.V.S Murari (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 19, 2017 - Tuesday
9.30 a.m. - Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena), Apoorva Krishna (Violin), Chidambaram S. Balashankar (Mridangam), N. Rajaraman (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon - V. Krupaalakshmi (Vocal), Tirucherai Karthik (Violin), Karthik Ganeshram (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Vikram Raghavan (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), Praveen Sparsh (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - K. Gayathri (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), Trivandrum Rajagopal (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan (Vocal), S.R. Mahadeva Sharma (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam),  Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

Dec. 20, 2017 - Wednesday
9.30 a.m. -  N. Harish (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin),Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam)
12.00 Noon -  Pooja & Supraja (Vocal), N. Madhanmohan (Violin), Tippirajapuram Hari (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Arundhathi Krishnan (Vocal), Thirumarugal Ganeshkumar (Violin), L. Subramaniam (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Geetha Raja (Vocal), Dr. M. Narmada (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Papanasam S. Sethuraman (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. -  Navagraha Nayakane – Harikatha by Sri. U.Ve.
Dushyanth Sridhar (Katha - Kutcheri) – Kum. Anahita & Kum. Apoorva and Party (Violin, Mridangam, Thambura)

Dec. 21, 2017 - Thursday 
9.30 a.m. - Rithvik Raja (Vocal), R.K. Sriramkumar (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
12.00 Noon -  Vijayashree Vittal (Vocal), T.V. Sukanya (Violin),  Adarsh Devarajan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Shiv Subramaniam (Vocal), Sruthi Sarathy (Violin),  Tirucherai Kaushik (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Dr. M. Lalitha & Nandini (Violin Duet), Thiruvidaimarudur S. Sankaran (Mridangam), G. Ravichandran (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. -  Kunnakudi M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), S. Varadarajan (Violin), Umayalapuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Udupi Sridhar (Ghatam)

Dec. 22, 2017 - Friday
9.30 a.m. - Vani Ramamurthy (Vocal), Shiva Ramamurthy (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam)
12.00 Noon - Vivek sadasivam (Vocal), S. Sayee Rakshith (Violin), Trichy Arvind (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - M. Raginisri (Vocal), Mysore Sangeetha Dilip (Violin), B.P. Haribabu (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Sandeep Narayanan (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), G.Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin),  Sherthalai R. Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

Dec. 23, 2017 - Saturday
9.30 a.m.- Sangeetha Swaminathan (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin), Melakaveri K. Balaji (Mridangam), Madipakkam A. Murali (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon -  V. AmrithNarayanan (Vocal), R. Sridhar (Violin), Sivagangai K. Vishwak (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Shruthi Sankarkumar (Vocal), Shivakumar Anantharaman (Violin), B.S. Prashanth (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy (Vocal), Vittal Rangan (Violin), Manoj Siva (Mridangam), Guruprasanna (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters Haripriya & Shanmukhapriya (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

Dec. 24, 2017 - Sunday
9.30 a.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), Vittal Rangan (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam), Sunilkumar (Kanjira)
12.00 Noon - Karthik Suresh (Vocal), R. Sundararajan (Violin), R. Ramkumar (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m.- Savitha Sreeram (Vocal), Thirumarugal S. Dineshkumar (Violin), M.S. Venkatasubramaniam (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), Nerkunam Shankar (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Bombay Jayashri Ramnath (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Patri Sathishkumar (Mridangam), B. Shreesundarkumar (Kanjira)

Dec. 25, 2017 - Monday
9.30 a.m. - T. Athulkumar (Flute), Neyveli Radhakrishnan (Violin), N. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon - N.S. Kamakshi (Vocal), M. Vijay Ganesh (Violin), P.B.V. Krishnamachari (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Maharajapuram S. Ganesh Viswanathan (Vocal), Pappu Gyandev (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal), Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), H. Prasanna (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - U. Rajesh (Mandolin), Delhi P. Sunderarajan (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam), Srirangam Kannan (Morsing)

Dec. 26, 2017 - Tuesday
9.30 a.m. - V. Deepika (Vocal), Shreya Devanath (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam)
12.00 Noon - Rhea Rajesh (Vocal), Tirucherai Karthik (Violin), J. Aravind (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - K. Dharini (Vocal), Sruthi Sarathy (Violin),  Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers K.N. Sashikiran & P. Ganesh (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), Thanjavur K. Murugaboopathy (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Dr. Pantula Rama (Vocal), M.S.N. Murthy (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)

Dec. 27, 2017 - Wednesday
9.30 a.m. - D.B. Ashwin (Vocal), Nishant Chandran (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)
12.00 Noon - Lakshmipriya (Vocal), Sahana Vasudevan (Violin), Sai Sarangan Ravichandra (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Ramnath Venkat Bhagawath (Vocal), G. Raghavendra Prasad (Violin), Mysore L. Vadiraj (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Nisha Rajagopalan (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), K. Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), H. Prasanna (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m.- S. Saketharaman (Vocal), Mysore M. Nagaraj (Violin), Bangalore V. Praveen (Mridangam), Guru Prasanna (Kanjira)

Dec. 28, 2017 - Thursday
9.30 a.m, -  Calcutta K. Srividya (Vocal), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
12.00 Noon - Ashwin Srikanth (Vocal), Vignesh Thiagarajan (Violin), Vignesh Venkataraman (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - J.B. Keerthana (Vocal) & J.B. Sruthi Sagar (Flute), M. Vijay (Violin), Thanjavur Praveenkumar (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Prasanna Venkatraman (Vocal), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin),J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam),  Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Jayanthi Kumaresh (Veena), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

Dec. 29, 2017 - Friday 
9.30 a.m. - Trivandrum Dr. K. Krishnakumar (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), S.V. Ramani (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon - Atlanta Sisters Shree Varshinee & Nitheya Shree (Vocal), Pavani Anupaindi (Violin), J.P. Suriya Nambisan (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Aparna Thiagarajan (Vocal), Mithuran (Violin), Mayuran (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Amritha Murali (Vocal), B.U. Ganeshprasad (Violin), K. Arunprakash (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - S. Shashank (Flute), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

Dec. 30, 2017 - Saturday
9.30 a.m. - Subhashri Ramachandran (Vocal), V.L. Kumar (Violin), Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam), H.Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon - Akshay Sridhar (Vocal), G. Raghavendra Prasad (Violin), Srikar (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Tirukovilur D. Balaji & Kadaganur K Silambarasan (Nadaswaram), Tindivanam R Sasikumar & Tiruvallikeni S Prabhu (Thavil)
4.00 p.m. - Akkarai Sisters Subhalakshmi & Sornalatha (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. -  Endarao Mahanubhavulu – A Tribute to all South Indian Composers - Sangeetha Upanyasam by Vishaka Hari, Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), H.S. Sudhindra(Mridangam), Trichy Krishnaswamy(Ghatam)

Dec. 31, 2017 - Sunday
9.30 a.m. - K. Sathyanarayanan (Keyboard), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Kumbakonam K. Swaminathan (Mridangam), S. Sunilkumar (Kanjira)
12.00 Noon - Shraddha Mohan (Vocal), Thirumarugal S. Dineshkumar (Violin), Nikshith Puttur (Mridangam)
1.30 p.m. - Vishnudev Namboothiri (Vocal), Gokul Alankode (Violin), Ashwin Balachandran (Mridangam)
4.00 p.m. - Chinmaya Sisters Uma & Radhika (Vocal), M.R. Gopinath (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam),  A.S. Krishnan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. -  Dr.M. Chandrasekaran & G. Bharathi (Violin Duet), Guruvayur Dorai & Uzhavoor P. Babu (Double Mridangam)

Jan. 1, 2018 - Monday
9.30 a.m. - Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin Duet), Trichy S. Sankaran (Mridangam), V. Suresh (Ghatam)
2.00 p.m. - R. Ashwathnarayanan (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), Praveen Sparsh (Mridangam), Sunilkumar (Kanjira)
6.00 p.m. - Dr. K.J. Yesudas (Vocal), Nagai R. Muralidharan (Violin), Tiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), Tirupanithura Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 2, 2018 - Tuesday
5.45 p.m. -  Aishwarya Vijayakumar - Disciple of Smt. Deepthi Parole (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Snigdha Nanda - Disciple of Smt. Sharon Lowen - Odissi

Jan. 3, 2018  - Wednesday
5.45 p.m. - Poornashri Srivatsan - Disciple of Smt. Uma Anand (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Sri Gyana Mudra presents Dance Ballet - Trinetro Bavakali. Guru: Archana Mahesh

Jan. 4, 2018 - Thursday
5.00 p.m. - Sakshi Pujari & Namrata Natarajan - Disciple of Gayathri Subramanian, Director, Takshashila, Navi Mumbai (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Lakshmi Ramesh - Disciple of Smt. Sumitra Nitin (Bengaluru) - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 5, 2018 - Friday
5.45 p.m. - Sivaranjani Viswanathan (Mumbai) - Disciple of Smt. Padma S. Raghavan (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. -  Sri Saraswathi Natyalaya - Thematic Group presentation - Narayanayeti Samarpayami - Guru: Smt. Padmini Krishnamurthy (Muscat)

Jan. 6, 2018 - Saturday
4.00 p.m. - T. Visha - Disciple of Smt. Roja Kannan (Bharathanatyam)
5.45 p.m. - S. Varsha - Disciple of Smt. Sujatha Mohan (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Group Dance by Students of Abhyasa Academy, Coimbatore. Disciples of Smt. Lavanya Shankar

Jan. 7, 2018 - Sunday
4.00 p.m. - S.S. Sahana - Disciple of Smt. Archana Mahesh (Bharathanatyam)
5.45 p.m. -  Amruthavarshini Hariharan - Disciple of Ms. Kavitha Ramu (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Vibha Raju - Disciple of Smt. Sowmya Tilak (Bharathanatyam)

Jan. 8, 2018 - Monday
5.45 p.m - K. Sudarshana Lakshmi - Disciple of Smt. Jayanthi Subramaniam (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Gayathri Suryanarayanan - Disciple of Smt. SaiKripa Prasanna (Bharathanatyam)

Dec. 9, 2018 - Tuesday
5.45 p.m. - Soujanya Suresh - Disciple of Smt. Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Tejaswini Narayanan - Disciple of Sri. Balagurunathan (Bharathanatyam)

Jan. 10, 2018 - Wednesday
5.45 p.m. - Shivangi Rajesh - Disciple of Ms. Priya Jayaraman (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Dr. Bhavana Rao - Disciple of Smt. Gayathri Sasidaran (Bharathanatyam)

Jan.11, 2018 - Thursday
5.45 p.m. - K. Sai Sudha - Disciple of Smt. Priya Karthikeyan (Bharathanatyam)
7.15 p.m. -Nandini Sugumaran - Disciple of Smt. Malathi Thothadri (Bharathanatyam)

Jan. 12, 2018 - Friday
5.45 p.m. - Bhavana Gowri Penubolu - Disciple of Smt. Rajeswari Sainath (Bharatanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Sri Sudarsini - Disciple of Smt. Brega Bessel (Bharatanatyam)

Jan. 13, 2018 - Saturday
4.00 p.m - N. Thaila Santhoshi - Guru: Smt. Archana Ramesh (Bharatanatyam)
5.45 p.m. - Tanya Saxena (Delhi) - Disciple of Smt. Saroja & Smt. Rama Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Sridevi Nrithyalaya Students present Dance Ballet SHADAKSHARAM - Guru: Smt. Sheila Unnikrishnan

Jan. 14, 2018 - Sunday
5.45 p.m. - Kavitha Thirumalai (Bharatanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Dance Ballet by Students of Abhinaya Natyalaya - KOLARU PATHIGAM - Guru: Smt. Krishnakumari Narendran, Music Rajkumar Bharathi

Jan. 15, 2018 - Monday
5.45 p.m. - Soujanya Suresh - Disciple of Smt. Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Bharatanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Group Dance by Students of Bharathanatyalaya - Guru: Smt. Latha Ravi

Jan. 16, 2018 - Tuesday
5.45 p.m. - R. Mahalakshmi - Disciple of Smt. Archana Mahesh (Bharatanatyam)
7.15 p.m. - Group Presentation by Students of RASA - Guru: Smt. Ambika Kameswar

Jan. 17, 2018 - Wednesday
7.15 p.m. - Group Dance by Students of Divyanjali - Disciples of Smt. Divyasena

Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha - Isai Vizha 2017

The 117th year music festival of Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha will be on from Dec. 16, 2017 to Jan. 4, 2018.

The morning sessions of lecture-demonstrations have interesting topics to check.

Lec-dem sessions and the concerts till 2 p.m. are open to all. The concerts at 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. are ticketed.

Venue: Vidya Bharathi, 55, Bheemasena Garden Road, Mylapore, Chennai - 600 004

The schedule:

Dec. 16, 2017 - Saturday
4.00 p.m. - Mangala Isai - Thirumeignanam Brothers T.K.R. Ayyappan and T.K.R. Meenakshisundaram (Nadaswaram), Thirukadaiyur T.G. Babu & Nellore S. Nagendran (Thavil)
5.30 p.m.- His Holiness Sri Sri Yathiraja Jeeyar Swamy, Sri Yathiraja Mutt, Melukote Inaugurates and confers the award 'Sangeetha Kalasarathy' on Dr. K.J.  Yesudas
Gottuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Award for Visesha Vadyam to
Sri. A.K.C. Natarajan (Clarinet) (Instituted by  Chennai Fine Arts)
Palghat Mani Iyer Centenary award  to Mannargudi  Sri. A. Easwaran (Instituted by Dr. Nithyashree Mahadevan)
Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu Award to Sri  R.K. Sriramkumar (Instituted by Sri. Mohan Parasaran)
Dr. M.L.V. Award to Sri. Vishnudev Namboothiri (Instituted by Smt. Sudha Raghunathan)
G. Ramanathan Award to Sri. V.K. Manimaran (Instituted by Sathanur Sri. V. Parthasarathy)
6.45 p.m. - N. Ravikiran (Chitravina), R.K. Sriramkumar (Violin), Haridwaramangalam  A.K. Palanivel (Special Thavil),  Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam)

Dec. 17, 2017 - Sunday
8.30 a.m. - Lect Demo. Laya Exercises, Structuring of Swara Korvai and Divitala Practices  by Dr. R.S. Jayalakshmi
10.00 a.m. - K. Gayathri (Vocal), Nishanth Chandran (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya  (Kanjira)
12.30 p.m. - Aishwarya Shankar )Vocal), Chidambaram Badrinath (Violin), Karthik Ganeshram (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Nandita Ravi (Vocal), Arushi Ramesh (Violin), Nirmal Narayanan (Mridangam), Trivandrum Rajagopal (Ghatam)
4.00 p.m. - Sriram Parthasarathy (Vocal), Mysore Srikanth (Violin), Sethalapathy Sivaraman (Mridangam), Sree Sundarkumar (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal), Mysore Srikanth (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Trichi Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 18, 2017 - Monday
8.30 a.m.     Lect. Demo. Intricacy of Pallavi with reference to the contribution of T.R.Subramaniam (TRS) By Priya Sisters - Shanmukhapriya & Haripriya
10.00 a.m. - Tiruvarur Girish (Vocal), H.K. Venkatraman (Violin), Dr. Yella Venkateswara Rao (Mridangam), Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)
12.30 p.m. - Keerthana Vaidyanathan (Vocal), Swetha Anantha Sivam (Violin), Trivandrum P.L. Harikrishnan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. -  Aishwarya & Saundarya (Vocal), Dr. M. Narmadha (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam), Bhagyalakshmi M Krishna (Morsing)
4.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal), – Rajeev  Mukundan (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), D.V. Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Dr. S. Sowmya (Vocal), R.K. Sriramkumar (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam)

Dec. 19, 2017 - Tuesday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo.  Voice Aesthetics – A Study in both Carnatic and Hindustani Classical Music by  Dr. Sriram Parasuram
10.00 a.m. - V.K. Manimaran (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), N. Guru Prasad (Ghatam)
 12.30 p.m. - V. Venkatanagarajan (Vocal), Sayee Rakshith (Violin), B.S. Prashanth (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - G. Ravikiran (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Kunnakudi M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), S. Varadarajan (Violin), Guru Kaaraikkudi R. Mani (Mridangam), V. Suresh (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m.    Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), Trichur C. Narendran (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 20, 2017 - Wednesday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo. Patantharam and Baani - By Rama Ravi and Dr. Nandita Ravi
10.00 a.m. - Chinmaya Sisters Uma & Radhika (Vocal), M.R.Gopinath (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam), Trichy Murali (Ghatam)
 12.30 p.m. - Archana & Aarathi (Vocal), Sandeep Bhjaradwaj (Violin),  Ambur Padmanabhan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Ashwat Narayanan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)
4.00 p.m.   Sandeep Narayanan (Vocal), Delhi P. Sunderrajan (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Shree Sundarkumar (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - N. Vijay Siva (Vocal), Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), Trichy Sri Sankaran (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekhara Sharma (Ghatam)

Dec. 21, 2017 - Thursday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo. Importance of Ghatam, Kanjira & Morsing in enhancing Concerts  by Dr. S. Karthick,  K.V. Gopalakrishnan & R. Raman
10.00 a.m. - V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), Shertalai Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam)
6.30 p.m. - Dr. K.J. Yesudas (Vocal), S.R. Mahadeva Sarma (Violin), Trichy Harikumar (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 22, 2017 - Friday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo. Influence of Vainika Style in Shaping a Uttama Gayika By Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan
10.00 a.m. - Bharat Sundar (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), Udipi Sridhar (Ghatam)
12.30 p.m. - Sunil Gargyan (Vocal), M. Vijay (Violin), R. Akshayram (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath (Vocal), H.M. Smitha (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam), S.Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Shertalai Dr. K.N. Renganatha Sharma (Vocal),  Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Palladam R. Ravi (Mridangam), Trichy S. Krishnaswamy (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Malladi Brothers - Sriramprasad & Ravikumar (Vocal), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), B. Ganapathy Raman (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 23, 2017 - Saturday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo.  Importance of Rare Varnams and Anubandham By  Suguna Varadachari
10.00 a.m. - R. Surya Prakash (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), Tiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), V. Suresh (Ghatam)
12.30 p.m. - Vidya Raghavan (Vocal), Mithuran Manogaran (Violin),  Arjun Raghavan (Mridangam), Ram Siva (Kanjira)
2.00 p.m.  Gayatri Satya -  Sruti Sarathy - R. Ramkumar
4.00 p.m. - Dr. Pantula Rama (Vocal), M.S.N. Murthy (Violin), Kotipalli Ramesh (Mridangam), Papanpasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), M.R. Gopinath (Violin), B. Harikumar (Mridangam), Bhargava Halambi (Kanjira)

Dec. 24, 2017 - Sunday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo. Padams  Javalis and influence in Veena Dhanammal Style By Smt. Alamelu Mani,  Dr. S. Sowmya and Dr. Ritha Rajan
10.00 a.m. - Akkarai Sisters Subhalakshmi & Sornalatha (Vocal), Nishanth Chandran (Violin), V.V. Ramanamoorthy (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)
12.30 p.m. - Anahita & Apoorva (Vocal), Apoorva Krishna (Violin), Sivagangai K. Vishvak (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Dr. Padma Sugavanam (Vocal),  Aditi Krishnaprasad (Violin), N C Bharadwaj (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy (Vocal), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Trichy B. Harikumar (Mridangam), Gridhar Udupa (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal), Mysore Srikanth (Violin), Arjun Kumar (Mridangam), Guru Prasanna (Ghatam)

Dec. 25, 2017 - Monday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo.  Purpose and Validity of the so-called Minor Ragas By Dr. Pantula Rama
10.00 a.m.- Musical Discourse by Vishaka Hari  on ‘Bharatanum Tyagarajarum’  Vittal Rangan (Violin), B. Ganapathy Raman (Mridangam), Trichy Murali (Ghatam)
12.30 p.m. - Vamsi Krishna (Vocal), Mantha Sriramya (Violin), Ambur Padmanabhan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Jayashree Vaidyanathan  (Vocal), Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), Manikudi Chandrasekaran (Mridangam), N. Narasimhan (Ghatam)
4.00 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers D. Raghavachari & D. Seshachari (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Trivandrum Balaji (Mridangam), Udipi Srikanth (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin), Umayalpuram Dr. K.Sivaraman (Mridangam), Gridhar Udupa (Ghatam)

Dec. 26, 2017 - Tuesday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo. Forms of Lord Vishnu in  Muthuswamy  Dikshitar Compositions By R.K. Shriramkumar
10.00 a.m. - Shankar Ramani (Vocal), S.P. Anantapadmanabha (Violin), Chidambaram Balashankar (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
12.30 p.m. - Maya  & Malavi Ravindran (Vocal), Rangapriya (Violin), Akshay Venkatesh (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Baby Sreeram (Vocal), Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), A.S. Ranganathan (Midangam), Trivandrum D.Rajagopal (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Rajhesh Vaidhya (Veena), Mohanaraman (Mridangam), Chandrajit (Tabla),  G.Ravi (Keyboard), Saihari (Ghatam), Subramanian ( Spl. Effects)
6.30 p.m. - S. Saketharaman (Vocal), Nagai  Sriram (Violin),  Prof. Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 27, 2017 - Wednesday
8.30 a.m. - An interactive Session with Aruna Sairam on Practice Methods for Students and Performers with Nisha Rajagopalan, Sid Sriram and Students of Carnatic Music
10.00 a.m. -  Amritha Murali (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
12.30 p.m. - Saranya Krishnan (Vocal), Chidambaram Badrinath (CViolin), V. Sai Raghavan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman (Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar (Mridangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Geetha Krishnamurthy (Veena), Mellakaveri Balaji (Mridangam), N. Narasimhan (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal), Embar Kannan (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam), R.Raman (Morsing)

Dec. 28, 2017 - Thursday
8.30 a.m. Lect. Demo. Development of Raga Alapana using the compositional Structure by Hydreabad Brothers  Raghavachari & Seshachari
10.00 a.m. - Rithvik Raja (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)
12.30 p.m. - Vivek Sadasivam (Vocal), Udipi Sreejith (Violin), Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - J.A. Jayanth (Flute), Trivandrum Sampath (Violin), Palghat Harinarayanan (Mridangam), S. Venkatramanan (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers K.N. Shashikiran & P. Ganesh (Vocal), Delhi P. Sundararajan (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), Dr.S. Karthick (Ghatam)
6.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters Shanmukhapriya & Haripriya (Vocal), Mysore Srikanth (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 29, 2017 - Friday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo. Musical Opera “Prahlada Bhakti Vijayam” of Sri Tyagaraja By Malladi Brothers  Sriramprasad &  Ravikumar
10.00 a.m. - Nisha Rajagopalan (Vocal), M.R. Gopinath (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), S. Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)
12.30 p.m. - Brinda Manickavasagam (Vocal), Shraddha Ravindran (Violin), Paramasamy Kirupakaran (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Vignesh Ishwar (Vocal), M.S. Anantha Krishnan (Violin), Tanjavur Pravin Kumar (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar (Vocal),  Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal), Embar Kannan (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Payyannur T. Govindaprasad (Morsing)

Dec. 30, 2017 - Saturday
8.30 a.m.     Lect. Demo. 'Sangeetha Siksha' Comparative Analysis - Gurukulam Vs Institution Vs Technology – A panel discussion.  Dr. Radha Bhaskar (Chair), Dr. Rajshri Sripathy, Dr. M.A. Bhageerathi and Palghat R. Ramprasad
10.00 a.m. - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal), Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam), Trichy Murali (Ghatam)
12.30 p.m. - Sai Vignesh (Vocal), V. Deepika (Violin), Sanjeev Bala (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Vishnudev Namboothiri (Vocal), Trivandrum Sampath (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam), Payyannur Govinda Prasad (Morsing)
4.00 p.m. - Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), Alathur Rajaganesh (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Neyveli B. Venkatesh (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 31, 2017 - Sunday
8.30 a.m. - Lect. Demo. The Role and Importance of Violin in Carnatic World by  Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, Dr. M. Narmada and Dr. R. Hemalatha
10.00 a.m. - ‘Nandakumaranum Nangayargalum’  Sublime Observation  Dr. Sudha Seshayan -  Musical Presentation by  Vasundara Rajagopal (Vocal), Pakala Ramadas (Violin), Nellai Balaji (Mridangam)
12.30 p.m. - Kalyanapuram Aravind (Vocal), M. Shrikanth (Violin), Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Sant Pravah by Savita Sreeram, Vasudha Ravi, Suchitra Balasubramaniam (Vocal), Shivakumar Anantharaman (Violin), M.S. Venkatasubramaniam (Mridangam), Vasanth Jayaraman (Tabla)
4.00 p.m. - Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjra)
6.30 p.m. - Bajan Sandya By O.S. Arun (Vocal), Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), A.V. Manikandan (Mridangam), S. Karthick (Ghatam), Praveen (Tabla), Selvam (Talam)

Jan. 1, 2018 - Monday
10.00 a.m. - Dr. M. Lalitha & M. Nandini (Violin Duet), Ramesh Srinivasan (Mridangam)
12.30 p.m. - Shruthi Shankar Kumar (Vocal), Keerthana Shankar (Violin), Trichur Sreenath Viswanath (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - T.K. Ramachandran  I.A.S. (Vocal), Raghavasimhan (Violin), R. Ramkumar (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - S. Mahathi (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
6.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), B. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), I. Sivakumar (Mridangam), Alathur Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

Jan. 2, 2018 - Tuesday
9.00 a.m. - Sankari Krishnan (Vocal), Usha Rajagopal (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Nerkunam Dr. S. Sankar (Kanjira)
11.00 a.m. - Amrutha Venkatesh (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
1.00 p.m. - S. Maalavika  (Vocal), Shreya Devnath (Violin), Rohit Prasad (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Dr. B. Vijaya Gopal (Flute), Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam)
5.00 p.m. - Suguna Varadachari (Vocal), Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - O.S. Thiagarajan (Vocal), Mullaivasal Chandramouli (Violin),  A.V. Manikandan (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Jan. 3, 2018 - Wednesday
9.00 a.m. - Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena), Anuradha Sridhar (Violin), Poongulam Subramanian (Mridangam), N. Rajaraman (Ghatam)
11.00 a.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
1.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Srinivas (Vocal), Achyutha Rao (Violin), B.S. Prashanth (Mridangam)
3.00 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan (Vocal), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violi), B. Ganapathy Raman (Mridanham)
5.00 p.m. - Gayathri Girish (Vocal), Mysore Srikanth (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - U. Rajesh (Mandolin) &  Anil Srinivasan  (Piano), Madrimangalam Swaminathan (Mridangam), Praveen Narayanan (Tabla)

Jan. 4, 2018 - Thursday
2.00 p.m. - Shantala Subramaniam (Flute) & Vishaal Sapuram (Chitravina), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam), S. Sunilkumar (Kanjira)
4.00 p.m. - Dr. R. Ganesh  (Vocal), G.R.S. Murthy (Veena), Madurai S. Balasubramanian (Violin), Chidambaram S. Balashankar (Mridangam), N. Sundar (Morsing)
6.00 p.m.  - Award Function
6.45 p.m. - Namasankeerthanam By Udayalur Kalyanarama Bagavathar



November 27, 2017

Margazhi Maha Utsavam 2017

Maximum Media and Ragamalika TV jointly organise Margazhi Maha Utsavam every year from Dec.1 to 14. The concerts are set to interesting themes. Free admission

Venue: Hamsadhwani, Indira Nagar Youth Hostel, 2nd Avenue, Indira Nagar, Adyar, Chennai 600 020

The Schedule:

Dec. 1, 2017 - Friday
4.45 p.m. - Mangala Isai - Thirumeignanam Brothers T.K.R. Ayyappan and T.K.R. Meenakshi Sundaram (Nadaswaram), Mannarkudi Dr. M.R. Vasudevan & Tirukoilur T.G. Babu (Tavil)
6.45 p.m. - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal), Akkarai Subhalakshmi (Violin), Mannarkudi Dr. M.R. Vasudevan (Tavil), Anantha R. Krishnan (Mridangam)

Dec. 2, 2017 - Saturday
4.45 p.m. - K. Gayathri (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), S. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
6.45 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Haripriya & Shanmukhapriya (Vocal) Theme - Ranga - The Divine Call
M.A. Krishnaswmay (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam). Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

Dec. 3, 2017 - Sunday
4.45 p.m. - Kunnakudi Balamurali Krishna (Vocal), Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin), Anantha R. Krishnan (Mridangam). V. Suresh (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - Aruna Sairam (Vocal) Theme - 'Oruththi maganai pirandhu' - Krishna and his colours
B.V. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

Dec. 4, 2017 - Monday
4.45 p.m. - Amritha Murali (Vocal), Ranjani Ramakrishnan (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - Neyveli Santhanagopalan(Vocal) Theme - Thirupugazhin Thanipugazh - The beauty, divinity and richness of Thirupugazh
Nagai Sriram (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 5, 2017 - Tuesday
4.45 p.m. - Vignesh Ishwar (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Praveen (Mridangam)
6.45 p.m. - Sikkil Gurucharan (Vocal) Theme - Naanarintha Desikan - Beautiful compositions composed & popularised by M.M. Dandapani Desikar
L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam)

Dec. 6, 2017 - Wednesday
4.45 p.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - N. Vijay Siva (Vocal) Theme - Enrum Carnatakam - Greatness of Carnatic music in absorbing good from other systems without losing its roots
Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)

Dec. 7, 2017 - Thursday
4.45 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Sumesh Narayanan (Mridangam)
6.45 p.m. -  S. Sowmya (Vocal) Theme - Thyagaraja Ramayanam - Ramayanam through the eyes of Thyagaraja
Embar Kannan (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)

Dec. 8, 2017 - Friday
4.45 p.m. - Bharat Sundar (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal) Theme - 19 -m nootrandin Manickangal - Select compositions from the 19th century
S. Varadarajan (Violin), Neyveli B. Venkatesh (Mridangam), Tripunithura Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 9, 2017 - Saturday
4.45 p.m. - Sandeep Narayan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
6.45 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal) Theme - Divyam - The feeling that is ultimate
Embar Kannan (Violin), N. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam), R. Raman (Morsing)

Dec. 10, 2017 - Sunday
4.45 p.m. - S Saketharaman (Vocal), Nagai Sriram (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam). Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
6.45 p.m. - Vishaka Hari (Harikatha Theme - Kandein Seethaiyai - Sundara Kandam of Ramayana composed in Tamil by Arunachala Kavirayar
B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Trichy Murali (Ghatam)

Dec. 11, 2017 - Monday
4.45 p.m. - J.A. Jayanth (Flute), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
6.45 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal) Theme - Deiveeka nadi theerangal - Musical pilgrimage of stalas in the banks of holy rivers in India
B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Thanjavur Murugabhoopathy (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 12, 2017 - Tuesday
4.45 p.m. - Vishnudev Namboothiri (Vocal), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam), Payyanur Govindaprasad (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - Sudha Seshayyan with Chinmaya Sisters, Rithvik Raja & Hari Ravi - Musical discourse
M. Vijay (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 13, 2017 - Wednesday
4.45 p.m. - Akkarai Sisters - Subhalakshmi & Sornalatha (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. -Udaiyalur Dr. K. Kalyanaraman (Nama sankeerthanam) - Radha Madhava Vivaham
Sethalapathy Balasubramaniam & Pichumani Bhagavathar (Vocal Support), Mannargudi Shankararaman (Harmonium), Babu Rajasekaran (Mridangam)m Palghat P. Vinod (Dolak)

Dec. 14, 2017 - Thursday
4.45 p.m. - V.K. Manimaran (Vocal), Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)
6.45 p.m. - Dushyanth Sridhar & Carnatica Brothers - K.N. Shashikiran & P. Ganesh (Katha Kutcheri) - Theme - Sri Saraswathi
Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Karukurichi Mohanram (Mridangam)

November 26, 2017

Narada Gana Sabha Isai-Natya-Nataka Vizha 2017

Narada Gana Sabha hosts its festival in two parts to it. A series of pre-music festival concerts hosted in the Mini Hall of the campus from Dec. 1 to 13, 2017 and the main festival from Dec. 14, 2017 to Jan. 1, 2018.

Venue: Narada Gana Sabha, 314, T.T.K. Road, Alwarpet, Chennai - 600 018

Concerts in the Mini Hall and the Main Hall are mentioned accordingly in the schedule.

The Schedule:

Dec. 14, 2017 Thursday (Main Hall)
4.30 p.m. - Teynampet P.K.M. Ravi & Party - Nadaswaram, Triplicane K. Sekar (Special Tavil)
6.00 p.m. - Inauguration
7.00 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone), A. Kanyakumari (Violin), Aridwaramangalam A.K. Palanivel (Tavil), Rajendra Nakod (Tabla), Bangalore N. Rajasekar (Morsing)

Dec. 15, 2017 - Friday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Thirugnanasambandar (Lecture) by Dr. Purisai Natarajan
8.45 a.m. - Salem Gayathri (Vocal)
10.00 a.m. - Sirkazhi Dr. G. Sivachidambaram (Vocal), Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli (Violin), Valangaiman K. Thyagarajan (Mridangam), Thiruvarur Sai Krishnan (Kanjira), Chidambaram Rajendran (Morsing), K. Mahesh (Tambura)
12.15 p.m. - S. Veena & S. Vidya (Vocal), P. Naveen Kumar (Violin), V.M. Kannan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

Main Hall:
1.45 p.m. - Aparna Jayaram (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Dr. S. Sowmya (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), Neyveli R, Narayanan (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
7.00 p.m.- Vidya Subramanyam (Bharatanatyam). 'Guru Margam' Compositions of Lalgudi Jayaraman - Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin duet)

Dec. 16, 2017 - Saturday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - 'Appar' - Lecture by M. Vaidyalingam
8.45 a.m. - Madipakkam K.R. Easwaran (Vocal)
10.00 a.m. - Dr. M. Lalitha & M. Nandini (Violin Duet), Melakkaveri K Balali (Mridangam), H.Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - Bhargavi Venkatramanan (Vocal), Disha Ranganathan (Violin), Mayouran Manoharan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), B. Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam), S. Haroharasubramaniam (Ghatam)

Main Hall:
1.45 p.m. - Lavanya Ananth (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Aruna Sairam (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), J. Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)
7.00 p.m. - Kunnakudi M Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Thanjavur Murugabhupathi (Mridangam), V. Suresh (Ghatam)

Dec. 17, 2017 - Sunday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - 'Sundarar' - Lecture by Dr. Aranga Ramalingam
8.45 a.m. - Bhavadharini Anantharaman (Vocal)
10.00 a.m. - Mambalam Sisters - Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal), Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), Poongulam Subramanian (Mridangam), G. Chandrasekara Sarma (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - S. Aditya Narayanan (Vocal), Sruthy Sarathy (Violin), L. Subramaniam (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Vishnudev Namboothiri (Vocal), V.V.S. Murari (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam), Vazhapally Krishnakumar (Ghatam)

Main Hall:
10.30 a.m. - Bharat Kalachar and UAA presents Y Gee Mahendra & Suppini in 'Rahasyam Parama rahasyam' - Drama
1.45 p.m. - Namritha Venkatesan-Kala swaroopini (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal), R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin), Neyveli B. Venkatesh (Mridangam)
7.00 p.m. - Krithika Subramaniam with Na Margam Dance Company (Bharatanatyam)

Dec. 18, 2017 - Monday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - 'Manickavasagar' - Lecture by M.K. Prabhakara Murthy
8.45 a.m. - M. Kodilingam (Vocal)
10.00 a.m. - R. Shankar Ramani (Vocal), Dr. Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), H.S. Sudhindra (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - Mayuri Vasan (Vocal), V.Deepika (Violin), Sai Nivaeithan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m.- Anahita & Apoorva (Vocal), M. Vijay (Violin), Praveen Sparsh (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

Main Hall:
1.45 p.m. - Deepthi Ravichandran (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m.- O.S. Thiagarajan (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam), Kovai Mohan Ram (Ghatam)
7.00 p.m. - Sandeep Narayanan (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), Thanjavur Murugabhupathi (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec. 19, 2017 - Tuesday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - 'Arunagiriyar' - Lecture by K. Sivakumar
8.45 a.m. - Dr. Kalakkadu R. Sitalakshmi (Vocal)
10.00 a.m. - Lakshmi Rangarajan (Vocal), V.V.S. Murari (Vocal), Mannarkoil J. Balaji (Mridangam)
12.15 p.m. - Krishna Ramarathnam (Vocal), Sahana Vasudevan (Violin), Ram Sriram (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Krithika Natarajan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

Main Hall: 
1.45 p.m. - Navia Natarajan (Bharatanatyam)
6.00 p.m. - K.J. Yesudas (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Thirupoonithura Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 20, 2017 - Wednesday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - V.G. Vigneshwar (Keyboard), Durai S. Srinivasan (Violin), Vadavalli Sriram (Mridangam) 10.00 a.m. - Sangeetha Swaminathan (Vocal), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Poongulam Subramanian (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - Shraddha ganesh (Vocal), M. Srikanth (Violin), Vadavalli R. Sriram (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Sumitra Nitin (Vocal), Aditi Krishna Prakash (Violin), R.S.R. Srikanth (Mridangam)

Main Hall:
1.45 p.m. - Ranjith & Vijna (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Malladi Brothers - Sriramprasad & Ravikumar (Vocal), S. Varadarajan (Violin), Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - S. Mahathi (Vocal), Jyotsna Srikanth (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sarma (Ghatam)

Dec. 21, 2017 - Thursday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Karthick Raju (Vocal),Pappu Gyandev (Violin), Aditya Srinivasan (Mridangam)
10.00 a.m. - Dr. R.S. Jayalakshmi (Veena), Umayalpuram Mali (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - V. Deepika & V. Nandika (Vocal), Anuthama Murali (Violin), Ajay Gopi (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Sunil Gargyan (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), Madurai M.S. Venkatasubramanian (Mridangam)

Main Hall:
1.45 p.m. - Sangita Vasudevan (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), Trichur R. Mohan (Mridangam), Dr. Nerkunam S. Shankar (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - S. Saketharaman (Vocal), R.K. Sriramkumar (Violin), Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 22, 2017 - Friday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Girijashankar Sundaresan (Vocal), Sayee Rakshith (Violin), Akshay Ram(Mridangam)
10.00 a.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar (Vocal), V.V.S. Murari (Violin), Poongulam Subramaniam (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. - V. Krupaa Lakshmi (Vocal), Sahana Vasudevan (Violin), Chrompet Lakshminarayanan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Ashwath Narayanan (Vocal),L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

Main Hall:
1.45 p.m. - Srisha Shashank (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - A. Kanyakumari & Embar S.Kannan (Violin Duet), Mannargudi A. Easwaran & K.V. Prasad (Double Mridangam)
7.00 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 23, 2017 - Saturday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Sunnambukulam Padmanabhan & Kallathur R.N. Purushotham (Nadaswaram), Triplicane T.S. Prabhu (Tavil), R. Jeevanandam (Tavil)
12.15 p.m. - Sankari Subramanyam (Vocal), M. Srikanth (Violin), Kumbakonam Aravind (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Brinda Manickavasagan (Vocal), R. Raghul (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam)

Main Hall:
10.00 a.m. - Madurai T.N.S. Krishna (Vocal), Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin), Trichur Narendran (Mridangam), B. Shree Sundarkumar (Kanjira)
1.45 p.m. - Shwetha Prachande (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayatri (Vocal), M.Rajeev (Violin), K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - Ganesha Natyalaya, disciples of Saroja Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam)

Dec. 24, 2017 - Sunday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - R. Rathipriya (Vocal), Hyderabad Radhika (Violin), Srihari Raman (Mridangam)
10.00 a.m. - Rithvik Raja (Vocal), B.U.Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. - Sai Sisters - Srividhya & Krishna Priyadarshini (Vocal), Meera Sundar (Violin), Kiran Nivi (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Aishwarya & Saundarya (Vocal), Dr. M. Narmadha (Violin), Sriram Srivatsan (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Main Hall:
10.30 a.m. - Natakapriya in S. Ve. Shekher - Drama
1.45 p.m. - Jyotsna Jagannathan (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal), S. Varadarajan (Violin), Neyveli B. Venkatesh (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Bharatanatyam)

Dec. 25, 2017 - Monday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - J. Lakshmi Priya (Vocal), Thirumarugal S. Dinesh Kumar (Violin), Srikar Chittari (Mridangam)
10.00 a.m. - R. Suryaprakash (Vocal), Nagai R. Sriram (Violin), Mannargudi A.Easwaran (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. - Sahana Samraj (Vocal), Apoorva Krishna (Violin), Sanjeev Raja (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Vignesh Ishwar (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), Akshay Anathapadmanabhan (Mridangam)

Main Hall:
7.00 a.m. - Radha Kalyanan
1.45 p.m. - Vaishnavee Sainath (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), B. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Shertalai R. Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam), A.S. Krishnan (Morsing)
7.00 p.m. - Swathi Hridayam - Compositions of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal - Bharatanatyam by Shobana

Dec. 26, 2017 - Tuesday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Ramana Balachandra (Veena), Sanjeev Bala (Mridangam), Ranganathan (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - Shraddha Mohan (Vocal), Meera Sundar (Violin), Vishvak (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - J.A. Jayanth (Flute), Trivandrum Sampath (Violin), Praveen Sparsh (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

Main Hall:
10.00 a.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
1.45 p.m. - Bhavya Ramachandran Balasubramaniam (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy (Vocal), Mysore Manjunath (Violin), Guru Kaaraikudi Mani (Mridangam), N. Amrit (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - Rajeswari Sainath (Bharatanatyam)

Dec. 27, 2017 - Wednesday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Ashwin Srikant (Vocal), Pappu Gyandev (Violin), Arjun Narayanan (Mridangam)
12.15 p.m. - Rangan Brothers - Raghuveer & Narayan (Vocal), Sanjay Suresh (Violin), Vignesh Ravi (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Kollangode R. Subramani & Parali E Gowtham (Nadaswaram), Poondi G. Shankar (Tavil), Kollangode N Sivadas (Tavil)

Main Hall:
10.00 a.m. - Sid Sriram (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), Praveen Sparsh (Mridangam)
1.45 p.m. - Apoorva Jayaraman (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Akkarai Sisters - Subhalakshmi & Sornalatha (Vocal), Vittal Rangan (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), U.N. Giridhar Uduppa (Ghatam)
7.00 p.m. - Abishek Raghuram (Vocal), Akkarai Subhalakshmi (Violin), Anantha R. Krishnan (Mridangam)

Dec. 28, 2017 - Thursday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Manasa Suresh (Vocal), Thirumarugal Ganesh Kumar (Violin), Myan Sudarshanan (Mridangam)
12.15 p.m. - Sakthi Ravindran (Vocal), Raghuram Tumkur, Harish Ravindran (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Archana & Aarathi (Vocal), Sayee Rakshith (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

Main Hall:
10.00 a.m. - Amritha Murali (Vocal), R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
1.45 p.m. - Medha Hari (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), Thiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - U. Rajesh (Mandolin) & Rajhesh Vaidhya (Veena), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), U.N. Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam), Praveen Narayanan (Tabla)

Dec. 29, 2017 - Friday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Mylai R. Mahendran& Thiruvanmiyur R Rajesh (Nadaswaram), Mylai Gajendran (Tavil), Triplicane S Prabhu (Tavil)
12.15 p.m. - Harish Kishen (Vocal), Harini Srivatsa (Violin), Sunaada Krishnamani (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - G. Ravikiran (Vocal), L. Ramakrishnan (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

Main Hall:
10.00 a.m. - Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Chandrasekara Sarma (Ghatam)
1.45 p.m. - Dakshina Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), S. Sunil Kumar (Mridangam)
7.00 p.m. - Priyadarshini Govind (Bharatanatyam)

Dec. 30, 2017 - Saturday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Maya & Malavi (Vocal), Kishore (Violin), Indalur Adarsh (Mridangam)
10.00 a.m. - Mahadevan Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)
12.15 p.m. - Aravind Sridhar (Vocal), P. Naveen Kumar (Violin), Sai Sarangam (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Mysore Kartik & Masteer Sumanth (Violin Duet), Kishore Ramesh (Mridangam), K. Ranganathan (Ghatam)

Main Hall:
1.45 p.m. - Dhivya Shiva Sundar (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Bombay Jayashri Ramnath (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), B. Shree Sundarkumar (Kanjira)
7.00 p.m. - Jayanthi Kumaresh (Veena), Jayachandra Rao (Mridangam), Pramath Kiran (Tabla & Morsing)

Dec. 31, 2017 - Sunday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Keerthana Sankar (Vocal), Mantha Sriramya (Violin), Arjun Ramachandran (Mridangam)
10.00 a.m. - Tiruvarur Girish (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), Tiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (Mridangam), Tripunithura Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)
12.15 p.m. - Bhargav Hariharan (Vocal), Mithuran Manoharan (Violin), Venkat Ramakrishnan (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Shantala Subramanyam (Flute), R. Raghul (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam), Govinda Prasad (Morsing)

Main Hall:
10.30 a.m. - Crazy Creators present Meedum Crazy Thieves (Drama)
1.45 p.m. - Swathy Ashok (Bharatanatyam)
4.00 p.m. - Ganesh & Kumaresh (Violin Duet), B. Harikumar (Violin), S. Krishna (Mridangam)
7.00 p.m. - Kalapradarshini, disciples of Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala present Ardhanari - Dance Drama. Music: Rajkumar Bharathi

Jan. 1, 2018 - Monday
Mini Hall:
8.15 a.m. - Akshay Sridhar (Vocal), G. Raghavendra Prasad (Violin), Sumedh Ramakrishna (Mridangam)
10.00 a.m. - B. Kannan (Madhura Veena), Bombay V. Anand (Violin), Thanjavur Murugabhupathi (Mridangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam), N. Sundar (Tabla & Morsing)
12.15 p.m. - Sanchita & Saadhvi (Vocal), Anuthama Murali (Violin), Indalur Adarsh (Mridangam)
2.00 p.m. - Ranjani Sivakumar (Vocal),Pappu Gyandev (Violin), Vijay Natesan (Mridangam)

Main Hall:
10.00 a.m. - Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan (Vocal), M. Chandrasekaran (Violin), Trichur Narendran (Mridangam)
1.45 p.m. - Kalarpana Ensemble, disciples of Shobana (Bharatantyam)
4.00 p.m. - Vishaka Hari - Bhakthi Sutra (Harikatha), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Mudikondan S.N. Ramesh (Veena), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Trichy Murali (Ghatam)
7.00 p.m. - Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam & artists of Nrithyodaya (Bharatanrityam)

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