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.

Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha
Vani Mahal, 103, G. N. Chetty Road, Chennai-600017.
Tel:+91-(0)-44- 2815 2166.

10/12/06 4:30:00 pm Gayathri Venkataraghavan Vocal
10/12/06 6:30:00 pm T. M. Krishna Vocal
11/12/06 4:30:00 pm S. Kasthuri Rangan Vocal
11/12/06 6:30:00 pm Nithyasri Mahadevan Vocal
12/12/06 4:30:00 pm U. P. Raju and Nagamani Mandolin
12/12/06 6:30:00 pm P. Unnikrishnan Vocal
13/12/06 4:30:00 pm Latha Ramchand Vocal
13/12/06 6:30:00 pm Aruna Sairam Vocal
14/12/06 4:30:00 pm K. R. Saranathan Vocal
14/12/06 6:30:00 pm Ranjani and Gayathri Vocal
15/12/06 4:30:00 pm Chinmaya Sisters Vocal
15/12/06 6:30:00 pm Sudha Raghunathan Vocal
16/12/06 4:30:00 pm Radha Bhaskar Vocal
16/12/06 6:30:00 pm S. Sowmya Vocal
17/12/06 4:30:00 pm Mambalam Sisters Vocal
17/12/06 6:30:00 pm Sanjay Subrahmanyan Vocal
18/12/06 4:30:00 pm R. Prasanna Guitar
18/12/06 6:30:00 pm U. Shrinivas Mandolin
19/12/06 4:30:00 pm Geetha Bennett Ramanathan Veena
19/12/06 6:30:00 pm T. V. Sankaranarayanan Vocal
20/12/06 4:30:00 pm Subha Ganesan Vocal
20/12/06 6:30:00 pm Kadri Gopalnath Saxophone
21/12/06 4:30:00 pm Charulatha Mani Vocal
21/12/06 6:30:00 pm Priya Sisters Vocal
22/12/06 4:30:00 pm M. Narmada Violin
22/12/06 6:30:00 pm S. Ve. Shekher Drama
23/12/06 4:30:00 pm R. Ganesh Vocal
23/12/06 6:30:00 pm K. J. Yesudoss Vocal
24/12/06 4:30:00 pm R. Surya Prakash Vocal
24/12/06 6:30:00 pm Padma Subramanyam Dance Ballet
25/12/06 4:30:00 pm Sikkil C. Gurucharan Vocal
25/12/06 6:30:00 pm Crazy Mohan Drama
26/12/06 4:30:00 pm Aruna Ranganathan Vocal
26/12/06 6:30:00 pm T. N. Seshagopalan Vocal
27/12/06 4:30:00 pm M. S. Lavanya and Subbulakshmi Saxophone
27/12/06 6:30:00 pm Anitha Guha Dance Ballet
28/12/06 4:30:00 pm B. Vijaya Gopal Flute
28/12/06 6:30:00 pm O. S. Arun Vocal
29/12/06 4:30:00 pm Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam Vocal
29/12/06 6:30:00 pm Hyderabad Brothers Vocal
30/12/06 4:30:00 pm Sangeetha Sivakumar Vocal
30/12/06 6:30:00 pm Kathadi Ramamurthi Drama
31/12/06 4:30:00 pm T. N. S. Krishna Vocal
31/12/06 6:30:00 pm Radhika Shurajit Dance Feature

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.