The 74th celebration of the month-long carnatic music festival in Fort High School in Chamrajpet on the occasion of Ramanavami is back. The festival will be on from April 1, 2012 to May 6, 2012 organised by Shri Rama Seva Mandali. Many well-known performers like Kadri Gopalnath on (Saxophone), HS Bhavya (Veena) and Archana Marathe(Violin) will be performing at these concerts.
Here is the schedule for the month.
April 6
5.15 pm – Vandana B D & Group
6.30 pm – Aruna Sairam & Group
April 7
5.15 pm – Mandolin Aravind Bhargav & Group
6.30 pm – Sanjay Subrahmanyan/ S Varadhrajan/ B Harikumar/ S Venkatraman
April 8
10 am – Sankara Namboodiri/ S Varadhrajan/ Poongulam Subramanyam/ Sukanya Ramgopal
6.30 pm – U Shrinivas & U Rajesh/ Shrinivas Rao VV/ Maririmangalam Swaminathan/ Trichi Murali
April 9
5.15 pm – Keerthana Narasimhan & Group
6.30 pm – HK Venkatram-G ravikiran-Ashwin Anand/ J vaidhyanathan
April 10
5.15 pm – Manasa B M & Group
6.30 pm – Rudrapatnam Brothers/ H N Bhaskar/ N Amruth/ Neyveli Narayanan
April 11
5.15 pm – Vani Satish & Group
6.30 pm – Papanasam Ashok Ramani/ H N Bhaskar/ Poongulam Subramanyam-B N Chandramouli
April 12
5.15 pm – Anjana P Rao & Group
6.30 pm – O S Arun/ M R Gopinath/ J Vaidhyanath/ M A Krishnamurthy
April 13
5.15 pm – Hiranmayee & Group6.30 pm – Abhishek Raghuram/ Dr Hemalatha / Neyveli Narayanan / Guruprasanna
April 14
5:15 pm Archana V Marathe & Group
6:30 pm Mysore Nagaraj & Manjunath/ Umayalpuram sivaraman/ Arjunkumar/ Guruprasanna
April 15
5:15 pm Malladi Vasavi & Group
6:30 pm Ajoy Chakravarthy / Ajoy joglekar/Sandeep Ghosh
April 16
6:30 pm Lalgudi G J R Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi (violin) / T V Gopalakrishnan / V Suresh
April 17
5:15 pm Vasumathi & Group
6:30 pm Pattabhirama Pandit/ M A sundareswaran / K V Prasad / Trichy Murali
April 18
4:30 pm Bangalore Brothers & Group
6:45 pm Saralaya Sisters / Nalina mohan / Melakaveri K Balaji / S N Narayana Murthy
April 19
5:15 pm Namrata Srinivasan & Group
6:30 pm N Vijay Siva/Dr Hemalatha/ Poongulam Subrahmanyam/ Anirudha Athreya
April 20
5:15 pm Girija Iyer & Group
6:30pm Sikkil Gurucharan / K V Krishna / K V Prasad / N Amruth
April 21
5:15 pm Madhuvanthi & P:arty
6:30 pm Mysore Manjunath& Ronu Majumdar/ Thiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam/Rajendra Nakod
April 22
5:15 pm R Karthik Narayanan & Group
6:30 pm Ranjani&Gayathri / B U Ganeshprasad / H S Sudheendra/ Sukanya ramgopal
April 23
5:15 pm Nandakumar M Desai &Group
6:30 pm Gayathri Venkataraghavan / B U Ganesh Prasad / Neyveli Skandasubramanyam/B R Ravikumar
April 24
5:15 pm Malladi Nagalakshmi & Group
6:30pm Malladi Brothers / Mysore Nagaraj / K V Prasad/ N Amruth
April 25
4:30 pm Master Vinay Rahul (violin) & Group
6:45pm Prince Ramavarma / S Varadarajan / K U Jayachandra Rao / B R Ravikumar
April 26
5:15 pm Apeksha & Group
6:30 pm T V Shankaranarayanan / S Varadarajan / B Harikumar/ Guruprasanna
April 27
5:15 pm Suparna S & Group
6:30 pm S Sowmya & Group
April 28
5:15 pm Amble Heramba-Hemantha & Group
6:30 pm Ashwini Bhide Deshpande/ Dr Ravindra Katoti / Ravindra Yavagal
April 29
4:30 pm Vyasarpadi S Kodandaraman & Group
6:30 pm S V Narayanaswamy Rao Award Function
April 30
5:15pm Chitrapoornima Satish & Group
6:30 pm Anuradha Madhusudanan (Veena) / Prakash Sontakee (Guitar) / C Cheluvaraju / Udayaraj Karpur
May 1
5:15 pm Keerthana Vaidyanathan & Group
6:30 pm Bombay Jaishree/ Akkarai Subbalakshmi / Delhi Sriram / H Prasanna
May 2
4:30 pm poornima Kulkarni / Ravindra Katoti / Rajendra Nakode (Hindustani concert)
6:45 pm D Balakrishna (Veena) / Vamshidhar (Flute)/Mannargudi Easwaran / Giridhar Udupa
May 3
5:15 pm Manjula Surendra (Veena) & Group
6:30 pm Priya Sisters & Group
May 4
5:15 pm Pratibhakankshi award Function
6:30 pm Visakha Hari & Group (Prahlada Charitam)
May 5
6:30 pm S Shashank (Flute) / Purbayan Chatterji (Sitar) / Thiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam / Viswanath Nakode (Carnatic Hindustani Jugalbandi)
May 6
6:30 pm Pt Vishwamohan Bhatt & Ganesh (of Ganesh Kumaresh) / V V Ramanamurthy (Carnatic Hindustani Jugalbandi)
Other related music festivals
64th Sri Ramanavami Music Festival at Seshadripuram College Premises
7 April Abhishek Raghuram- Vocal Guruprasad- Violin , Ravishankar- Mrudangam, Sukanya Ramagopal- Ghatam
8 April Srivalsan Menon- Vocal Ganesh Prasad- Violin, Sudheendra- Mrudangam, Ranganatha- Ghatam
9 April Mysore M. Nagaraj and Mysore M . Manjunath – Violin Duet PRaveen- Mrudangam, Radhakrishnan- Ghatam
10 April Dr. Srikantham Nagendra Sastri- Vocal Chandrashekar- Violin, Jayachandra Rao- Mrudangam, Nagaraj- Khanjira
11 April Dual Program First half: 6-30pm to 8pm Mouna Ramachandra – Hindustani Vocal Second Half : 8pm to 9.30pm Sri Vrinda Acharya – Vocal, Vittal Rangan- Violin, Ashok- Mrudangam, KArthik Mani- Ghatam
12 April T.V Shankaranarayanan- Vocal Madhav- Violin, Narayanan- Mrudangam, Bhargava- Khanjira
13 April Kalavathy Avadhooth- Vocal, Nalina Mohan- Violin, Krishna- Mrudangam, Sukanya Ramagopal- Ghatam, Vyasa Vittala – Khanjira
14 April Saketharaman- Vocal Venkataram- Violin, Sudheendra- Mrudangam, Narayana Murthy- Ghatam
15 April Venkataram – Violin, G. Ravikiran – Flute, V.PRasad- Mrudangam, Suresh- Ghatam, Guruprasanna – Khanjira
16 April Ananthran and Amit A. Nadig & party – Flute Duo
17 April Hamsini Nagendra- Vocal Nalina Mohan- Violin, Sudheendra- Mrudangam, Narayana Murthy- Ghatam
18 April Vinay Sharva- Vocal Raghu- Violin, Renukaprasad- Mrudangam, Dayananda Mohite- Ghatam
19 April Dr. Sukanya Prabhakar- Vocal Raghuram- Violin, Cheluvaraju- Mrudangam, Chandramouli-Khanjira
20 April Vidyabhushana- Vocal Govindaswamy- Violin, Sainath- Mrudangam, Gururaj- Morsing
21 April Jayanthi Kumaresh – Veena Arjun -Mrudangam, Guruprasanna- Khanjira
22 April Laksharchana – 7.30am to 10am
Discourse : 10.15 to 11.45am "Interesting Situations in Ramayana" by Veda Brahma Sri Hiremangalur Kannan,
12 noon : Mangalaarathi and Prasada Viniyoga,
6.30 to 8pm : " Jagatrayapavani" Musical" Feature by Rasadhuni Friends group
The Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Krishna Rajendra Road
15 April 5 pm
Ashwini Varghur – Flute
Jyothsna Manjunath – Violin
Ranjani Venkatesh – Mrudanga
Bhagyalakshmi Krishna – Morcing
28 April 6 pm
Vidwan Sri Maharajapuram Ramachandran – Vocal
Chi.B. Vittala Rangan – Violin
Vidwan Sri Arujun Kumar – Mridangam
29 April 5.30 pm
Vidwan Sri Shankara Raman – Veena
Sri C. Cheulavaraj – Mridangam
Ramanavami Concerts, Sri Jayarama Seva Mandali
7 April – Vocal – G. Ravikiran
8 April – Seeta Kalyana followed by Dance by Divya Bhushan
10 April – Veena – R.K Padmanabha
11 April – Vocal – Kalavathy Avadhooth
12 April – Vocal – Prince Rama Ravi Varma
13 April – Vocal – Ranjani Gayatri
14 April – Dance – Ramu Kunnigal
15 April – Rama Pattabhisheka and Rathotsava Nadasurabhi Cultural Association
Nadasurabhi concerts
15 April 4:15 pm – Heritage Academy Hall, Koramangala
Kasturirangan ( Vocal) / B Raghuram / B C Manjunath / Sukanya Ramgopal
7 April – Sri Rama Seva mandali, Koramangala
Ramanavami celebrations: V Sankaranarayanan (vocal).⊕