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 this page. 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.

Mylapore Fine Arts
45, Musiri Subramania Iyer Road, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004.
Tel: +91-(0)-44-2499 7755

14 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Trivandrum R. Venkatraman Veena
14 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm E Gayathri Veena
15 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Madurai R. Sundar Vocal
15 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm S Sowmya Vocal
16 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Suguna Purushothaman Vocal
16 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Subhashini Parthasarathy Vocal
16 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm P. Unnikrishnan Vocal
17 Dec 2006: 09:00 am N. Ramani Flute
17 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm TV. Ramprasadh Vocal
17 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Priya Sisters Vocal
18 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Hyderabad Sisters Vocal
18 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Mambalam Sisters Vocal
18 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Madurai TN. Seshagopalan Vocal
19 Dec 2006: 9:00 am Raji Gopalakrishnan Vocal
19 Dec 2006: 3:00 pm TV. Sundaravalli Vocal
19 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Ranjini and Gayathri Vocal
20 Dec 2006: 09:00 am SP. Ramh Vocal
20 Dec 2006: 01:30 pm Vasudaa Keshav Vocal
20 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Sikkil C. Gurucharan Vocal
20 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Nithyasri Mahadevan Vocal
21 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Booshani Kalyanaraman Vocal
21 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm UP. Raju and P. Nagamani Mandolin duet
21 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Malladi Brothers Vocal
22 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Dr. R. Ganesh Vocal
22 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Mala Chandrasekar Flute
22 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm TM. Krishna Vocal
23 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Bangalore MS. Sheela Vocal
23 Dec 2006: 01:30 pm M. Balamuralikrishna Vocal
23 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Chinmaya Sisters Vocal
23 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm TV. Sankaranarayanan Vocal
24 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Carnatic Brothers Vocal
24 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam Vocal
24 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Bombay Jayashree Ramnath Vocal
25 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Iyer Brothers Veena
25 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm U. Shrinivas Mandolin
26 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Geetha Raja Vocal
26 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Sreevalson Menon Vocal
26 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Sudha Ragunathan Vocal
27 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Mysore Nagamani Srinath Vocal
27 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Latha Ramchand Vocal
27 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Aruna Sairam Vocal
28 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Vasundara Rajagopal Vocal
28 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Shankari Krishnan Vocal
28 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran Vocal
29 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Sangeetha Sivakumar Vocal
29 Dec 2006: 01:30 pm Nisha Rajagopal Vocal
29 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Radha Bhaskar Vocal
29 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm S. Sashank Flute
30 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Gayathri Girish Vocal
30 Dec 2006: 01:30 pm N. Kiranavali Vocal
30 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm R. Surya Prakash Vocal
30 Dec 2006: 06:30 pm Chitra Visweswaran Bharathanatyam
31 Dec 2006: 09:00 am Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram Vocal
31 Dec 2006: 01:30 pm Charulathamani Vocal
31 Dec 2006: 03:00 pm Gayathri Venkatraghavan Vocal
31 Dec 2006: 06:00 pm OS. Thiagarajan Vocal
01 Jan 2007: 09:00 am Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, G.J.R. Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi Violin trio
01 Jan 2007: 02:00 pm Sriram Gangadharan Vocal
01 Jan 2007: 06:00 pm KJ. Yesudoss Vocal
02 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Nitya Jaganathan Bharathanatyam
03 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Janaki Ganesh Bharathanatyam
04 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Bhargavi Gopalan Bharathanatyam
05 Jan 2006: 07:15 pm Kartiyayini Srinivas Bharathanatyam
06 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Kapilan Sisters Bharathanatyam
07 Jan 2006: 07:15 pm Padma S. Raghavan Bharathanatyam
08 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Nirtyarpana Group Dance Drama
09 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Sowmy Tilak Bharathanatyam
10 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Priyadharshini Bharathanatyam
11 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Subbashini Gopalaswamy Bharathanatyam
12 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Shreelatha Vinod Bharathanatyam
13 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Srinidhi Harini Bharathanatyam
14 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Uma Satyanarayanan Nambudripad Bharathanatyam
15 Jan 2007: 07:15 pm Shyamala Bharathanatyam

26 Dec 2007. 2.40pm
Venus Pettachi Sivagami Auditorium, Luz
Brahma Gana Sabha

an approximate statistics of Madras Music Season 2005:

1000 concerts over a period of 60 days
60% Vocal Concerts
S Sowmya and TM Krishna persented maximum number of concerts, almost 20 each
Karthik Fine Arts leads in organising maximum number of concerts
Maximum attendance: 6pm concerts followed by 10am concerts.
Exorbitant Ticket Rates: Krishna Gana Sabha. Serving only to Elite?
Leading Sponsor: Nalli Group.
Best Coverage: The Hindu, Kutcheribuzz

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.