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. Following is the complete schedule. Go back to the main page to choose schedules of organisations/festivals/sabhas.

Bharat Kalachar
Sri YGP Auditorium, 15, Lake 1 Main Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai-34
Tel:+91-(0)-44-28223045 / 28226164

01/12/06 6:00 pm Bombay Sisters Inauguration
01/12/06 6:30 pm Sriram Parthasarathy Vocal
02/12/06 6:45 pm Mohan Santhanam Vocal
03/12/06 6:45 pm Sikkil Gurucharan Vocal
04/12/06 7:00 pm Ghatam Karthick Heart Beat Ensemble
05/12/06 7:00 pm T. V. Ramprasadh Vocal
06/12/06 7:00 pm Mambalam Sisters Vocal
07/12/06 5:30 pm Charulatha Mani Vocal
07/12/06 7:00 pm Revathy Krishna Veena
08/12/06 7:00 pm Papanasam Ashok Ramani Vocal
09/12/06 6:45 pm Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi Violin duo
10/12/06 6:45 pm R. Suryaprakash Vocal
11/12/06 7:00 pm R. Ganesh Vocal
12/12/06 7:00 pm Gayathri Venkatraghavan Vocal

Bhajans in Flute
by GS RAJAN

19 Dec 2006 at 5.30pm
Nandi Fine Arts.

21 Dec 2006 at 2.45pm
Brahma Gana Sabha

30 Dec 2006 at 5.00pm
Aima, Sidhi Vinayaka Temple,

30 Dec 2006 7.30pm
Vipanchika. RK Swamy Auditorium, Oppo: RR Sabha, Mylaore

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