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Preview The cultural festival by the Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha starts on Friday
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Photo: V. Ganesan
in sync Hyderabad Brothers
Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha’s fourth Annual Music and Dance Festival will take place between February 1 and 7. This festival is a tribute to the saints Purandara and Tyagaraja. The festival will have performances every evening at 6 p.m. at the
Purandara Bhavana, 8th Main Road, HAL II Stage, Bangalore.
The festival opens with a concert by the violin duo Mysore M. Nagaraj and Dr. M. Manjunath. On the mridanga is K. Sivaraman and ghatam will be played by U.N. Giridhar Udupa. On February 2, there will be a vocal recital by T.V. Sankaranarayanan. He will be accompanied by Nagai R. Sriram on the violin, Melakkaveri K. Balaji on the mridanga and V. Anirudh Athreya on the kanjira. On February 3, the austere Hyderabad Brothers, D. Raghavachari and D. Seshachari will present a vocal duet, with Akkarai Subhalakshmi on violin, Arjunkumar on mridangam and M.A. Krishnamurthy on ghatam. Roja Kannan and party will present bharatanatyam feature, Bhakti Manjari.
The hero of mandolin, U. Shrinivas will perform along with Nagai R. Sriram on violin, B. Harikumar on mridangam, and Vaikom Gopalakrishnan on ghatam on February 5. Soumya will present Carnatic vocal recital on February6. She will be accompanied by Embar Kannan on violin, H.S. Sudhindra on mridanga, and Sukanya Ramgopal on the ghatam.
This year’s Purandara Award will be presented to the leading saxophone player Kadri Gopalnath on February 7. After the award ceremony, he will perform. His accompanists are Kanyakumari on violin, Pathri Satish Kumar on mridangam, N. Amrith on kanjira, and B. Rajshekar on morsing.
There are season passes as well as daily passes available. While the season pass for adults is Rs. 250, for children it is Rs. 125. Even the students (of music and dance) season pass comes at Rs. 125. The daily pass for adults is Rs. 49 and for students and children it is Rs. 25. Children below 10 years are not allowed. For details call 65711214.
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