The unique festival season - Madras Music Season - is back again with over 1000 performances of Indian classical music, dance and allied arts spread over a period of almost two months. Scholars, critics, organisers, festival directors, artists and art lovers from all over the world reach Chennai to participate. More than 25 major month-long festivals along with mini festivals of seven to ten days plus seminars, discussions, lecture-demonstrations etc. will be presented by several music and dance organizations/sabhas. www.artindia.net brings you a select list (trying not to repeat same artists appearring in various paltforms) of performances by veterans as well as most talented musicians and dancers belonging to the younger generation in these pages. Keep visiting this page to see updates as and when we receive information and schedueles of concerts, seminars etc. from organizers. You are welcome to print out this page. Click here for addresses of Sabhas/Organisers. Click here to go back to main page.

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
East Mada Street, Mylapore, Chennai- 600 004. Tel: +91-(0)-44-24643420

23/11/06 5:00 pm Inauguration
23/11/06 5:30 pm Lavanya and Subbulakshmi Saxophone
23/11/06 6:30 pm Sri Satya Sai Group Cultural Programme
24/11/06 6:30 pm Revathy Krishna Veena
25/1106 5:00 pm Nisha Rajagopal Vocal
25/11/06 6:30 pm Nithyashree Mahadevan Vocal
26/11/06 5:00 pm Aishwarya Raghavan Vocal
27/11/06 5:00 pm Jayalakshmi Sekhar Veena
27/11/06 6:30 pm Aruna Sairam Vocal
28/11/06 5:00 pm Bhairavi and Malavi Vocal
28/11/06 6:30 pm Priya Sisters Vocal
29/11/06 5:00 pm Akkarai Sisters Violin duet
29/11/06 6:30 pm P. Unnikrishnan Vocal
30/11/06 5:00 pm Mahati Vocal
30/11/06 6:30 pm Papanasam Ashok Ramani Vocal
01/12/06 5:00 pm Mambalam Sisters Vocal
01/12/06 6:30 pm Sanjay Subramanian Vocal
02/12/06 5:00 pm Charulatha Mani Vocal
02/12/06 6:00 pm A. Rohit Vocal
02/12/06 6.30 pm T. V. Sankaranarayanan Vocal
03/12/06 5:00 pm B. Kannan Veena
03/12/06 6:00 pm J. V. Deepak Vocal
03/12/06 6:30 pm T. M. Krishna Vocal
04/12/06 5:00 pm Gayathri Girish Vocal
04/12/06 6:30 pm S. Sowmya Vocal
05/12/06 5:00 pm Mohan Santhanam Vocal
05/12/06 6:30 pm Ranjani and Gayathri Vocal
06/12/06 5:00 pm Chinmaya Sisters Vocal
06/12/06 6:30 pm O. S. Thyagarajan Vocal
07/12/06 5:00 pm Gurucharan Vocal
07/12/06 6:30 pm Sudha Raghunathan Vocal
08/12/06 5:00 pm K. Gayathri Vocal
08/12/06 6:30 pm Bombay Jayashree Vocal
09/12/06 5:00 pm Amrita Murali Vocal
09/12/06 6:30 pm Geetha Krishnamurthy Veena
10/12/06 10:00 am Ghatam Karthik Heart Beat Ensemble
10/12/06 5:30 pm Deepika Reddy Kuchupudi
10/12/06 7:00 pm Revathi Ramachandran Bharathanatyam
11/12/06 5:30 pm Girish Panicker Bharathanatyam
11/12/06 7:00 pm Rajeswari Sainath Bharathanatyam
12/12/06 5:30 pm Divya Kasturi Bharathanatyam
12/12/06 7:00 pm Jayanthi Subramanian Bharathanatyam
13/12/06 5:30 pm Archana Moorthy Bharathanatyam
13/12/06 7:00 pm Nartaki Nataraj Bharathanatyam
14/12/06 5:30 pm H. Sunitha - Kalapradarshini Bharathanatyam
14/12/06 7:00 pm Roja Kannan, Lavanya Ananth and Priya Murle Bharathanatyam
15/12/06 5:30 pm Rama Vaidyanathan Bharathanatyam
15/12/06 7:00 pm Leela Samson Bharathanatyam
16/12/06 5:30 pm Varsha Bharathanatyam
16/12/06 7:00 pm Jayabharati Bharathanatyam

Nearby Hotels to Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, Pettachi Sivagami Auditorium (Brahma Gana Sabha), Mylapore Fine Arts, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan Auditorium, RR Sabha, Srinivasa Shastry Hall:

Hotel New Woodlands
72, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai.
Tel: +91-(0)-44-28113111

Hotel Savera
146, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai,
Tel: +91-(0)-44-2811470

Hotel Maris
11, Cathedral Road,
Tel: +91-(0)-44-28110541

Ramada Raj Park
180, TTK Road
Tel: +91-(0)-44-2498777

Delhi Contingent in Chennai

Many leading artists from Delhi gets invited to perform in 'Madras Music Season' every year. So far we have received the following information:

Sonal Mansingh: Odissi, 16 Dec 2006: 7.30pm, Narada Gana Sabha

Rama Vaidyanathan: Bharata Natyam, 15 Dec 2006: Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, 5.30pm; 20 Dec 2006: Karthik Fine Arts, 6.00pm; 23 Dec 2006: Brahma Gana Sabha, 5.00pm; 31 Dec 2006: Bharat Kalachar, 7.30pm;
7 Jan 2007: Music Academy, 6.00pm.

Geeta Chandran: 19 Dec 2006: Krishna gana Sabha, 10.30am.

GS Rajan: Flute, 19 Dec 2006: Nandi Fine Arts, 6.30pm, 21 Dec 2006: Brahma Gana Sabha, 2.30pm; 30 Dec 2006, Aima, Vinayaka Temple, Besant Nagar, 5.00pm;30 Dec 2006: 7.30pm, Vipanchika, RK Swamy Auditorium, Oppo: RR Sabha, Mylapore.

Yamini Reddy: Kuchipud. i 09 Dec 2006: Krishna Gana Sabha, 7.30pm

Mahalaskshmi: Vocal: 11 Dec 2006: Bharata Kalachar, 5.00pm; 18 Dec 2006: Brahma Gana Sabha, 3.00pm; 28 Dec 2006: Narada Gana Sabha, noon; 29 Dec 2006: Music Education Trust, 5.00pm

Vidya Srinivasan: Vocal: 18 Dec 2006:5.00pm, Gana Mukundapriya, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan Mini Hall, Mylapore; 27 Dec 2006: 6.00pm, Maharashtra Niwas, TTK Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 18.

Dhwani Ensemble: 26 Dec 2006: 5.00pm, Gana Mukundapriya, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan mini hall; 27 Dec 2006: 7.30pm, Sriragam Fine Arts, Maharashtra Niwas, TTK Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 18.

Bharati Shivaji: Mohiniattam: Convenor of Natya Kala Conference, Krishna Gana Sabha and
Vijayalakshmi: Mohiniattam. Please check schedules.

Delhi basedartists expected to participate include: Madhup Mudgal and others