Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru - Dec. 18, 2012 to Dec. 25, 2012

Lakshman Sruthi hosts Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru every year at Kamarajar Arangam, Mount Road. These concerts are ticketed and tickets can be bought online at http://www.lakshmansruthi.com/chennaiyil-thiruvaiyaru/index.asp

The schedule:

Dec. 18, 2012 - Tuesday
12.15 p.m. - Thirumeignanam Bros - Nadhaswaram
2.30 p.m. - Pancharatna Kritis - group singing led by P.S. Narayanaswamy
4.45 p.m. - Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna - Vocal
7.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan - Vocal

Dec. 19, 2012 - Wednesday
7.00 a.m. - Udayalur kalyanaraman - Namasankeerthanam
9.00 a.m. - Padmalaya troupe - Bharatanatyam
10.30 p.m. - Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan presents Vibrations - Ensemble
1.00 p.m. - Madhu Iyer - Vocal
2.45 p.m. - Charulatha Mani - Vocal
4.45 p.m. - Ranjani Gayathri - Vocal
7.30 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath - Saxophone

Dec. 20, 2012 - Thursday
7.00 a.m. - Karunakarachariar - Upanyasam
9.00 a.m. - Pooja Murugan - Bharatanatyam
10.30 a.m. - Ghatam Karthik presents - Hearbeat - Ensemble
1.00 p.m. - Raginisri - Vocal
2.45 p.m. - Revathy Krishna - Veena
4.45 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Vocal
7.30- p.m. - O.S. Arun - Vocal

Dec. 21, 2012 - Friday
7.00 a.m. - Tukaram Ganapathi Maharaj - Namasankeerthanam
9.00 a.m. - Nalacharitram - Dance Drama
10.30 a.m. - A.K.C. Natarajan - Clarinet
1.00 p.m. - Vithisha - Bharatanatyam
2.45 p.m. - Mahanadhi Shobana Vignesh - Vocal
4.45 p.m. - Classical Tribute to Amma by Utsav Music
7.30 p.m. - Rajesh Vaidya - Veena

Dec. 22, 2012 - Saturday
7.00 a.m. - Needamangalam Alamelu Subbaraman - Krishnaganam
9.00 a.m. - Saindhavi & Vinaya - Vocal
10.30 a.m. - Mahathi - Vocal
1.00 p.m. - Meenakshi Raghavan - Bharatanatyam
2.45 p.m. - Sri Maha Ganapathy - Dance by Krishnakumari Narendran
4.45 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal
7.30 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan - Vocal

Dec. 23, 2012 - Sunday
7.00 a.m. - Mangayarkarasi - Devotioanl discourse
9.00 a.m. - Jayashree Jayaramakrishnan - Vocal
10.30 a.m. - Lalitha & Nandini - Violin Duet
1.00 p.m. - Tapasyakala Sampradaya - Bharatanatyam
2.45 p.m. - Saashwathi Prabhu - Vocal
7.30 p.m. - Parveen Sultana - Hindustani Vocal

Dec. 24, 2012 - Monday
7.00 a.m. - Thyagarajar Vaibhavam - Cuddalore Gopi Bhavathar Namasankeerthanam
9.00 a.m. - Chandrika Srinivas - Vocal
10.30 a.m. - R. Prasanna - Guitar
1.00 p.m. - Sukanya Kaur - Dance
2.45 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers - Sashikiran & Ganesh - Vocal
4.45 p.m. - S. Sowmya - Vocal
7.30 p.m. - Shubha Mudgal - Hindustani Vocal

Dec. 25, 2012 - Tuesday
7.00 a.m. - Thiruthani Swaminathan, Karur Swaminathan and Palani Shanmugasundaram - Thirumurai Isai
9.00 a.m. - Subhadra Marimuthu - Bharatanatyam
10.30 a.m. - Bharatanatyam by Vipanchee troupe
1.00 p.m. - Dr. Ganesh - Vocal
2.45 p.m. - Shoba Chandrasekar - Vocal
4.45 p.m. - Aruna sairam - Vocal
7.30 p.m - Karthick - Fusion

Naada Inbam - Music Festival - Dec. 9, 2012 to Jan. 6, 2013

Venue: Ragasudha Hall, 85/2, Luz Avenue, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004. Ph: 2499 2672

The concerts are free. The organisers welcome donations which are exempted under Sec. 80G of IT Act.

Dec. 9, 2012 - Sunday
6.15 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin, Erode Nagarajan - Mridangam, Madipakkam Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 10, 2012 - Monday
4.00 p.m. - Sunil Gargyan - Vocal, K.J. Dileep - Violin, K. Parthasarathy - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan - Vocal, B. Anantharaman - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam

Dec. 11, 2012 - Tuesday
4.00 p.m. - Sujith S. Naik - Flute, Thirumarugal S. Dineshumar - Violin, Raghunandan - Mridangam
6.30 p.m. - Aniruddha Knight - Bharatanatyam - Music by T. Girish & party

Dec. 12, 2012 - Wednesday
4.00 p.m. - Rithvik Raja - Vocal, M. Vijay - Violin, Thanjavur Praveen Kumar - Mridangam, Chandrasekhara Sharma - Kanjira
6.15 p.m. - Jayalakshmi Santhanam - Vocal, Amritha Murali - Violin, J. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 13, 2012 - Thursday
4.00 p.m. - V.K. Arunkumar - Vocal, S.P. Ananthapadmanabha - Violin, S.J. Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Pattabhirama Pandit - Vocal, Mysore Nagaraj - Violin, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman - Mridangam, Guru Prasanna - Ghatam

Dec. 14, 2012 - Friday
4.00 p.m. - K.P. Nandini - Vocal, Thirumarugal S. Dineshumar - Violin, Kumbakonam Ramakrishnan - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Nanditha Ravi - Vocal, Usha Rajagopal - Violin, B. Sivaraman - Mridangam

Dec. 15, 2012 - Saturday
4.00 p.m. - Srividhya and Sudha R.S. Iyer - Vocal, Murali Pavithran - Violin, L. Subramanian - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Vaikom Jayachandran - Vocal, V.L. Kumar - Violin, Sherthalai Ananthakrishnan - Mridangam

Dec. 16, 2012 - Sunday
4.00 p.m. - Bharathi Ramasubban - Vocal, Ranjani Ramakrishnan - Violin, Mannarkoil Balaji - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - T.K. Ramachandran - Vocal, Usha Rajagopal - Violin, Madirimangalam Swaminathan - Mridangam

Dec.17, 2012 - Monday
4.00 p.m. - Ashwath Narayan - Vocal, K.P. Nandini - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Suguna Varadachari - Vocal, R. hemalatha - Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar - Mridangam

Dec. 18, 2012 - Tuesday
4.00 p.m. - Bhairavi & Malavi - Vocal, Raghul - Miolin, Delhi Sriram - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Ritha Rajan - Vocal, M.R. Gopinath - Violin, Thanjavur Kumar - Mridangam

Dec. 19, 2012 - Wednesday
4.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Shankar - Vocal, Melakaveri Thyagarajan - Violin, R. Ramkumar - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Ramnath & Gopinath Iyer - Veena, Thanjavur Kumar - Mridangam, Udupi Balakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 20, 2012 - Thursday
4.00 p.m. - Swarna Rethas - Vocal, Karaikkal Venkatasubramanian - Violin, R. Shankaranarayanan - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Seetha Rajan - Vocal, Embar Kannan - Violin, Patri Satishkumar - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira

Dec. 21, 2012 - Friday
10.00 a.m. - Krishni Anandaraj - Vocal, V.V. Srinivasa Rao - Violin, Neyveli Skandasubramanian - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam
4.00 p.m. - Aswin Anand - Veena, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Palkulangara K. Ambika Devi - Vocal, Trivandrum Sampath - Violin, Shyamkrishnan - Mridangam, Nerkunam Shankar - Kanjira

Dec. 22, 2012 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. - Padma Saranathan - Vocal, S.P. Ananthapadmanabha - Violin, Valangaiman Thyagarajan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m - Ranjith Varier - Vocal, Trivandrum Sampath - Violin, B. Sivaraman - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Suguna Purushothaman - Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy - Violin, Mannarkoil Balaji - Mridangam

Dec. 23, 2012 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - S. Srinivasan - Veena, Sherthalai Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Vaikom Gopalakrishnan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Guruvayur T.V. Manikantan - Vocal, Karaikkal Venkatasubramanian - Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - T.N. Krishnan, Viji Krishnan Natarajanm Sriram Krishnan - Violin Trio, K.M.S. Mani - Mridangam, Vaikom Gopalakrishnan - Mridangam

Dec. 24, 2012 - Monday
10.00 a.m. - Sriranjani Darbha - Vocal, Kamalkanth Vinjamuri - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Sowmya Sudarshan - Vocal, parur Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Kumbakonam Swaminathan - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Prasanna Venkatraman - Vocal, B.U. Ganesh Prasad - Violin, Neyveli Skandasubramanian - Mridangam, Udupi Sridhar - Ghatam

Dec. 25, 2012 - Tuesday
10.00 a.m. - Injikudi E.M. Subramanian - Nadaswaram, B.U. Ganesh Prasad - Violin, K. Arunprakash - Mridangam, K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam
4.00 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal, Mumbai Sivakumar Anantharaman - Violin, Rajna Swaminathan - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - R. Vedavalli - Vocal, R.K. Sriramkumar - Violin, Mannargudi Easwaran - Mridangam, Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 26, 2012 - Wednesday
10.00 a.m. - Ananthapadmanabha Rao - Vocal, Srividhya R.S. Iyer - Violin, Praksh rao - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath - Vocal, Adithi Krishnapraksh - Violin, R. Shankaranarayanan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Book release - Ramaniya Geetha Part 2 & 3
6.30 p.m. - N. Ramani - Flute, R.K. Sriramkumar - Violin, K. Arunprakash - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira

Dec. 27, 2012 - Thursday
10.00 a.m. - Guhan Venkatraman - Veena, Vignesh Venkatraman - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Varalakshmi Anandkumar - Vocal, Mumbai Sivakumar Anantharaman - Violin, T.K. Ramakrishnan - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Seetha Narayanan - Vocal, Amrita Murali - Violin, Sherthalai Ananthakrishnan -Mridangam, Sukanya Ramgopal - Ghatam

Dec. 28, 2012 - Friday
10.00 a.m. - Varun Ganesan - Vocal, Shiva Ramamurthy - Violin, Vignesh Venkatraman - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - K.R. Harikrishnan Moozhikulam - Vocal, Sudha R.S. Iyer - Violin, R. Ramkumar - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Rama Ravi & Nanditha Ravi - Vocal, R.K. Sriramkumar - Violin, K. Arunprakash - Mridangam

Dec. 29, 2012 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. - Vivek Thyagarajan - Vocal, Mumbai Sivakumar Anantharaman - Violin, B. Ganapathiraman - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - S. Sushruthi - Vocal, Trivandrum Sampath - Violin, Akshay Anand - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Thamarakkadu Govindan Nambudiri - Vocal, V.V. Ravi - Violin, Trichur Narendran - Mridangam

Dec. 30, 2012 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Kalyani Ganesan - Veena, V.M. Ganesan - Mridangam, H. Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam
4.00 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy - Vocal, Raghul - Violin, Thanjavur Praveen Kumar - Mridangam, Udupi Srikanth - Ghatam
6.15 p.m. - Alamelu Mani - Vocal, Balu Raghuraman - Violin, Umayalpuram Mali - Mridangam

Dec. 31, 2012 - Monday
4.00 p.m. - Kanakadurga Venkatesh - Vocal, Apoorva Krishna - Violin, Thillaisthanam Suryanarayanan - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Malladi Suribabu - Vocal, S. Varadarajan - Violin, Srimushnan Rajarao - Mridangam, Mohanram - Ghatam

Jan. 1, 2013 - Tuesday
10.30 a.m. - Padma Sugavanam - Vocal, R. Rahul - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - K. Bharat Sundar - Vocal, M. Rajeev - Violin, Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Radha namboodiri - Vocal, Sherthalai Sivakumar - Violin, K. Ashok - Mridangam

Jan. 2, 2013 - Wednesday
4.00 - Anirudh Venkatesh - Vocal (Organised by Music Circle)
6.15 p.m. - Amritha Murali - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin, J. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, Alathur Rajaganesh - Ghatam

Jan. 3, 2012 - Thursday
4.00 p.m. - Rahul Narayanan - Vocal, M. Vijay - Violin, Guru Raghavendra - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Sumithra Vasudev - Vocal, Amritha Murali - Violin, Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam

Jan. 4, 2013 - Friday
4.00 p.m. - Archana & Arathi - Vocal, Jayanthi Kesav - Violin, Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Neela Ramgopal - Vocal, Charulatha Ramanujam - Violin, Thanjavur Ramdas - Mridangam, Pudukottai Ramachandran - Ghatam

Jan. 5, 2013 - Saturday
4.00 p.m. - Swati Srikrishna - Vocal, K.P. nandini - Violin, K.H. Vineeth - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - M. Chandrasekaran & Bharathi - Violin Duet, Umayalpuram Mali - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam

Jan. 6, 2013 - Sunday
6.30 p.m. - Jayanthi Kumaresh - Veena (Organised by Nadopasana)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan music festival 2012 - Nov. 21, 2012 to Dec. 12, 2012

Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, East Mada Street, Mylapore.
Phones: +91 44 24640811, 24643450

The concerts are free and open to all.

The schedule:

Nov. 21, 2012 - Wednesday
4.30 p.m. - Mangala Isai - Seshampatti Sivalingam and party
6.00 p.m. - Inauguration
7.00 p.m. -  Ranjani & Gayathri - Vocal

Nov. 22, 2012 - Thursday
3.30 p.m. - K. Bharatsundar - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters - Chitra & Vijayalakshmi - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal

Nov. 23, 2012 - Friday
3.30 p.m. - Aswath Narayanan - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Dr. Radha Bhaskar - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Jayanthi Kumaresh - Veena

Nov. 24, 2012 - Saturday
3.30 p.m. - V.K. Manimaran - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - T.V. Ramprasad - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Aruna Sairam - Vocal

Nov. 25, 2012 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Light Music , Sastriyamum Cinemavum , Ramjhi’s Isai Mazhalai Group
3.30 p.m. - Saindavi - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - B. Kannan - Veena
7.00 p.m. - Sanmarga – A musical journey  by T.V. Gopalakrishnan

Nov. 26, 2012 - Monday
3.30 p.m. - Kuldeep M. Pai  - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Nisha P. Rajagopal - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan - Vocal

Nov. 27, 2012 - Tuesday
3.30 p.m. - Saashwathi Prabu - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Aswathi Thirunal Rama Varma - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan - Vocal

Nov. 28, 2012 - Wednesday
3.30 p.m. - Erode S. Anantharaman - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Dr. M. Narmada - Violin Solo
6.45 p.m. - S. Sowmya - Vocal

Nov. 29, 2012 - Thursday
3.30 p.m. - N.J. Nandhini  - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - N. Vijay Siva - Vocal

Nov. 30, 2012 - Friday
3.30 p.m. - Aiswariya Raghavan - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Krishna Kumar - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Rajesh Vaidya - Veena

Dec. 1, 2012 - Saturday
3.30 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Vasudha Ravi - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan - Vocal

Dec. 2, 2012 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Ghatam Karthick’s ‘Heartbeat’ Ensemble
3.30 p.m. - Shreya Devnath - Violin Solo
5.00 p.m.- Geetha Krishnamurthy - Veena
7.00 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal

Dec. 3, 2012 - Monday
3.30 p.m. - Chaitrra Sairam - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Jayashree Vaidhyanathan - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Haripriya & Shanmukhapriya - Vocal

Dec. 4, 2012 - Tuesday
3.30 p.m. - Akshay Padmanabhan  - Vocal
5.00 p.m.- Hyderabad Sisters - Lalitha & Haripriya - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Sriram Parasuram & Anuradha Sriram - Vocal Jugalbandhi

Dec. 5, 2012 - Wednesday
3.30 p.m. - Pallavi Prasanna Madyastha - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - S. Mahathi - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal

Dec. 6, 2012 - Thursday
3.30 p.m. - Ranjani Hariharan - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Papanasam Ashok Ramani - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Music Ensemble by Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam & troupe

Dec. 7, 2012 - Friday
3.30 p.m. - Cuddalore Janani - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Vasundhara Rajagopal - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Malladi Brothers - Vocal

Dec. 8, 2012 - Saturday
3.30 p.m. - Rithvik Raja  - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - S.R. Veeraraghavan - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam - Vocal

Dec.9, 2012 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Isai Payanam - thematic concert by Charulatha Mani
3.30 p.m. - Brinda Manickavasakam - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Geetha Rajasekhar - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers - Vocal

Dec. 10, 2012 - Monday
3.30 p.m. - Shankar Ramani  - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Deepika Varadarajan - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - Ganesh & Kumaresh - Violin Duet

Dec. 11, 2012 - Tuesday
3.30 p.m. - N. Harish - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - R. Prasanna - Guitar
6.45 p.m. - Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan - Vocal

Dec. 12, 2012 - Wednesday
3.30 p.m. - Karthik Raju - Vocal
5.00 p.m. - Raji Gopalakrishnan - Vocal
6.45 p.m. - O.S. Arun - Vocal

Kalarasana goes to Chetpet

Rani Seethai Hall at the Gemini circle has been the venue for the December Music Season concerts for Kalarasana for years. This year, the sabha has moved to Chinmaya Heritage Centre on Harrington Road, Chetpet.

The Tapovan Hall at the Chinmaya Heritage Centre is acoustically good and spacious too. It is also good that music goes to the different parts of the city instead of hovering around the Mylapore area.

In the recent times, Sri Rama Bhaktha Jana Sabha which hosts its festival in K K Nagar and Nadasudha based in Velachery, Hamsavinodhini in West Mambalam have taken the festival to the other neighbourhoods in Chennai.

So, more the merrier?

Music Academy Season 2012 concert schedule

The Music Academy Madras, the mother of all the sabhas in Chennai has published the schedule of concerts and academic sessions on their website.
You can catch the veterans in the morning sessions, young singers in the noon sessions, popular young artistes in the session just after lunch and the well-known seniors in the two evening sessions.
The schedule is here: http://musicacademymadras.in/music_schedule.php

Bharatiya Sangeeth Utsav 2012 by BVB, Chennai

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Chennai has announced the schedule for their season's concerts on their website. Please scroll down this page to view the schedule - http://www.bhavanchennai.org/programmes.html