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Chennayil Thiruvaiyaru – Season 7

18th Dec 2011 – 25th Dec 2011

Chennayil Thiruvaiyaru is a mega event of a week long non stop carnatic music rendered by various artistes. This musical event is conducted in recent years in Chennai, India which is a concept of creating an atmosphere of Thiruvaiyaru in Chennai.

The event attracts the carnatic vocal, instrumental and bharathanatyam audience who spread across the globe.

Dec – 18 (2011) SUNDAY

2.45pm Nadhaswaram Seshampatti Sivalingam
4.15pm Pancharatna Krithis P.S.Narayanasamy and Group
7.30pm Vocal   Nithyasree Mahadevan

Dec - 19 - MONDAY

7.00am Musical Discourse Sindhuja
9.00am Semi Classical Music “Abaswaram” Ramji
10.30am Bharathanatyam Vipanchee
1.00pm Vocal Saindhavi & Vinaya
2.45pm Vocal Haricharan
4.45pm Bharathanatyam Shobana
7.30pm Saxophone    Kadri Gopalnath

Dec - 20 - TUESDAY

7.00am Namasankeerthanam   Cuddalore Gopi Bhagavathar
9.00am Vocal Hyderabad Subbulakshmi
10.30am Geetham Madhuram    A Tribute To
Dr. (Mrs.) M.S.Subbulakshmi
1.00pm Vocal Ananth Rao
2.45pm Vocal Mahathi
4.45pm Vocal Abishek Raghuram
7.30pm Fusion Nandhini/Tharun Battacharya /
Abhijith Banerjee

Dec - 21 - WEDNESDAY

7.00am Namasankeerthanam O.S.Sundar
9.00am Fusion Prayog
10.30am “heArtbeat” Ensemble    “Ghatam” Karthik
1.00pm Vocal Raginishri
2.45pm Bharathanatyam Srekala Bharath
4.45pm Vocal    T.V.Sankaranarayanan
7.30pm Violin Ganesh - Kumaresh

Dec - 22 - THURSDAY

7.00am Namasankeerthanam Udayalur Kalyanaraman
9.00am Vocal Dr.Radha Bhaskar
10.30am Veena – Sitar   Nirmala Rajasekar-
Gaurav Majumdar
1.00pm Vocal Dr. Ganesh
2.45pm Vocal Carnatica Brothers
4.45pm Vocal O.S.Arun
7.30pm Flute Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia

Dec - 23 – FRIDAY

7.00am Religious Discourse Desa: Mangayarkarasi
9.00am Vocal Kashyap Mahesh
10.30am   Carnatic, Hindustani Music Sriram Parasuram –
(Jugalbandhi)    Anuradha Sriram
1.00pm Bharathanatyam Subadhra Marimuthu
2.45pm Vocal Harini
4.45pm Vocal    P. Unnikrishnan
7.30pm Vocal Shubha Mudgal

Dec - 24 – SATURDAY

7.00am Musical Discourse    Suchithra
9.00am Bharathanatyam Abimithra
10.30am Guitar    Prasanna
1.00pm Bharathanatiyam    Vinisha Kathiravan
2.45pm Vibrations Thiruvarur Vaidhyanathan
4.45pm Vocal   Priya Sisters
7.30pm Vocal Sudha Raghunathan

Dec - 25 – SUNDAY

7.00am Sangita Upanyasam     Damal Ramakrishnan
9.00am Bharathanatyam    Manjula Ramasamy
10.30am Vocal    Sikkil Gurucharan
1.00pm Bharathanatyam    Meenakshi Raghavan
2.45pm Vocal    Shoba Chandrasekar
4.45pm Vocal    Aruna Sairam
7.30pm Sarod    Amjad Alikhan

For other informations / booking and queries

please visit: http://www.lakshmansruthi.com/chennaiyil-thiruvaiyaru/index.asp

Events in carnatic music happen in all parts of the world at almost all times in a year. Of these, there are three events that are of utmost significance.
They are: December season, Thiruvaiyyaaru Sri Thyagaraja Aradhana and Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradana.

Thiruvayyaaru Sri Thyagaraja aradhana:

It is celebrated on Pushya Bahula Panchami day which is the maha samadhi day of saint Thyagarajar. The entire music fraternity gathers at Thiruvaiyyaru, the birth place of Sri Thyagarajar where his temple is located and offer their prayers by singing the five gems (Pancharathna krithis) of him which are set in ghana ragas.

December season:

Marghazhi festival of dance and music was started in the year 1927 to commemorate the anniversary of The Music Academy. Even today, it is held every year from mid-December to the mid of January at various sabhas like The Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, Bharat Kalachar, Kartik Fine arts, to name a few and these sabhas also honour the musicians by conferring titles on them. It is a cultural extravaganza with more than 2000 artistes from India and abroad participating in over 300 concerts.

Cleveland Thayagaraja Aradhana:

It is the largest Classical music festival outside India. It began in the year 1978. Presently, it has more than 8000 attendees every year. The following year 2010 is the 33rd year of the Aradhana. The events of this festival include: Concerts by eminent artistes from India, Competition for the budding talent in U.S.A, Lecture-Demonstration etc. More information about this festival can be found at their official website: www.aradhana.org.