Chembai Sangeetholsavam 2016 - The Music Festival at Guruvayur

Chembai Sangeetholsavam, the Carnatic music festival held annually at Guruvayur, Thrissur Dt (Kerala, India) is dedicated to the maestro of the Carnatic music late Chembai Vaidyanatha Bagavathar. This year the festival inaugurated on 25 Nov 2016 continues till 10 Dec 2016 at Melpathoor Auditorium, Guruvayur.

Chembai Sangeetholsavam organized by Guruvayur Devaswom is conducted in connection with the Ekadasi festival of Guruvayur Srikrishna temple. More than 2000 musicians, including beginners will participate in this festival. The highlight of the festival - Pancharatna Keerthanalapanam, a set of five Keerthanas (songs) in different Ragas written and formatted by the legendary musician Thyagaraja Bagavathar, is sung as chorus by over 150 artists . This is held in the morning of the previous day to the concluding date (09 Dec).

After the inaugural session on the first day, performances are held every day from morning to late evening. Usually, the evening programme is allotted to graded artists which include vocal as well as instrumental concerts. Ākāshvānī (All India Radio) will be broadcasting the event live from 06^th Dec.

The special concerts held on these days are listed below. (The timing of Ākāshvānī live broadcasting is also given).

Chembai Sangeetholsavam 2016

Date: 25 Nov - 10 Dec 2016
Venue: Melpathoor Auditorium, Guruvayur, Thrissur Dt (Kerala)

On the first day, after inaugural session,
25 Nov 2016 (Friday):
07.00 pm
Vocal – Dr K Omanakutty
Violin- Thiruvizha Viju S Anand
Mridangam- N Hari
Ghatam- Manjoor Unnikrishnan
Morsing- Kottayam Murali

Concerts in the following days will begin from morning 06.45 am.

The Special Concerts in the evenings:

26 Nov (Saturday):
Time: 06.00 pm – 07.00 pm

Vocal-  Sudha Raghunath

Violin - B V Raghavendra Rao

Mridangam - Neyveli Skandasubramaniam

Ghatom - Udupi S Sridhar
Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal - Bharath Sundar

Violin – R Swaminathan

Mridangam -N Hari

Ghatom - Kovai Suresh
Time:08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Violin - A Kanyakumari

Mridangam- K V Prasad

Ghatom - Vaikom Gopalakrishnan

27 Nov (Sunday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal - Dr.S Soumya

Violin - Trivandrum N Sampath

Mridangam - Nanchil Arul

Ghatam - Kottayam Unnikrishnan

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal -Prasanna Venkittaraman
Violin- T H Subramaniam

Mridangam - Mannargudi Eswaran

Ghatom - Haripad Sekhar

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Veena - Jayanthi Kumaresh
Violin- Kumaresh

Mridangam- Patri Sathishkumar
Ghatom- Vazhappally Krishnakumar

28 Nov (Monday)

Time: 06.00 pm – 07.00 pm

Vocal - Akkarai Sisters

Violin - Edappally Ajith Kumar
Mridangam- Neyveli Narayanan

Ghatom – Perukavu P L Sudheer

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal - T N S Krishna

Violin - Avaneeswaram S R Vinu

Mridangam - Guru Raghavendra

Ghatom - Manjoor Unnikrishnan

Morsing- Payyannur Govindaprasad
Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Vocal - Abhiram Unni

Violin - Manjoor Ranjith

Mridangam - Kummanam Harindranath

Ghatom - Alappuzha Gopinatha Prabhu

Morsing - Paravur Gopakumar

29 Nov (Tuesday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal- Seetha Narayanan

Violin - T H Lalitha

Mridangam - Chalakkudi Ramkumar Varma

Tabla - G Vijayakumar

Ghatom - Anchal Krishna Iyer

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal - Dr.Guruvayur Manikandan

Violin - Kottayam Hariharan

Mridangam - Palakkad Harinarayanan

Ghatom - Attingal Madhu

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Sathya Narayana- Keyboard

Nadaswaram - Adayar Balasubramani
Mridangam - Vijay Nadesan

Ghatom - Aluva Rajesh

30 Nov (Wednesday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal - Mathangi Sathyamurthy

Violin - Thiruvizha Viju S Anand

Mridangam - Srikand Pulickan

Ghatom - Mangade Pramod

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal - Kunnakkudi Balamurali Krishna

Violin - N V Babu Narayanan

Mridangam - T R Sundaresan

Ghatom - Tripunithura Radhakrishnan

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Mandolin - U P Raju & Nagamani

Violin - Attukal Balasubramanian

Mridangam - Vechur Ananthakrishnan

Ghatom - Vellattanjur Sreejith

01 Dec (Thursday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal - Calcutta Sreevidya

Violin – Dr Vasantha Kannan

Mridangam - Anilakkad Jayakrishnan

Ghatom - Vaikom Gopalakrishnan

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal - Vishnudev Nambudiri

Violin - Trichur C Rajendran

Mridangam - Guruvayur Sanoj

Ganjira - Kadanad Ananthakrishnan

Morsing - Kalamandalam Shaiju

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Chithraveena- Bhargavi Balasubramaniam

Violin – Vaikom Padmakrishnan

Mridangam – Tvpm. R Vaidyanathan

Ganjira - Y N Santharam

02 Dec (Friday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal- G Sreevidya Secondrabad

Violin – Kandadevi Dr.Vijayaraghavan

Mridangam - Papanasam Kumar

Ghatom - G Manoharan

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal- Shenkottai Hariharasubramaniam

Violin - Dr. M Narmada

Mridangam - Prof. Vaikom Venugopal

Ghatom - Tvpm Rajesh

Morsing - Thamarakkudi R Rajasekhar

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Baul Song by Parvathy Baul

03 Dec (Saturday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Devotional Songs - Ambili Devi

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Hindustani Music - Pt. Ramesh Narayanan 

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Mridutharang Fusion - Dr Kuzhalmannom G Ramakrishnan

04 Dec (Sunday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal - Dr. Pandula Rama

Violin - M S N Moorthy

Mridangam – Kottuppally Ramesh
Ghatom - Elamkulam Deepu

Ganjira- Udupi Sreekanth
Morsing - Thirunakkara Rethish

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal - G Ravikiran

Violin - V V Ravi

Mridangam - Sumesh Narayanan

Ghatom - Ennakkad Maheswaran

Morsing - Kottayam Murali

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Nadaswaram - Nenmara Brothers

Thavil - Alappey Vijayakumar

Thavil - Cherthala S P Sreekumar

05 Dec (Monday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Flute- Mala Chandrasekhar

Violin –Kumbakonam M R Gopinath

Mridangam - Thanjavur Pravin

Ghatom - Trivandrum V Karthikeyan

Morsing - Bellikoth Rajeev

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Flute - J A Jayanth

Violin - L Ramakrishnan

Mridangam - N C Bharadwaj

Ghatom - Papanasam Sethuraman

Morsing - Neyyattinkara Krishnan

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Flute - Mysore Chandankumar

Violin - Shreya Devanath

Mridangam – Alappuzha G Chandrasekharan Nair

Ghatom - Adichanelloor Anikumar

Morsing - Kannur Santhosh

06 Dec (Tuesday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 06.30 pm

Vocal – Vijayasreee Haridas

Violin – E P Ramesh
Mridangam – B Jayachandran

Morsing – Vellinezhi Ramesh

Time: 06.30 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal – Aranad Raju

Violin – Vayala Rajendran

Mridangam – Aluva Gopalakrishnan

Ganjira- Neethul Aravind

Time: 07.00 pm to 07.30 pm

Violin - Shreya Devanath

Mridangam – Thuravoor Arunkumar

Ghatom - Adichanelloor Anikumar

07 Dec (Wednesday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal – Dr Preethi Satheesh

Violin – Dr Vrindavarma

Mridangam – V Karthik

Morsing – Kannur Santhosh

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Vocal - Shiji Karunakaran

Violin – Cherthala Sunil

Mridangam – Adv C S Sunilkumar

Ganjira – Thrippunithura N Gopalkrishnan

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Veena – Saranya B Mangal

Mridangam – Thuravoor Sailesh

Ghatom – Aluva Rajesh

08 Dec (Thursday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 06.30 pm

Vocal – R V Viswanathan

Violin – Kadanad Haridas

Mridangam – A S Neelakandan

Morsing – Kalamandalam Shaiju

Time: 06.30 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal – Sudha Ranjith

Violin – Swetha Ananthasivan

Mridangam – Thuravoor Suseelan

Ganjira – Thrikkakkara Y N Santharam

Time: 07.00 pm to 07.30 pm

Vocal – Parvatheepuram Padmanabha Iyer
Violin – Kodunthirapully Subrahmanian

Mridangam – Sreenath Viswanath
Morsing – Thrippunithura Ratheesh

09 Dec (Friday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal – Sanjay Raj

Violin – Vazhamuttam V Suresh

Mridangam – Mariyapally P R Hareesh

Ghatam – Ernakulam Ramakrishnan

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Flute – Raghunathan A K

Violin – Muttara Ravi

Mridangam – Kuzhimathikkad Gopalakrishnan

Ghatam – R Gopinatha Prabhu

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm

Vocal – Arjun B Krishna
Violin – Viswesh Swaminathan

Mridangam – Praveen Sharma
Morsing- Payyannur Govindaprasad

10 Dec (Saturday)

Time: 06.00 pm to 07.00 pm

Vocal – Adoor Jinu Prtasannan

Violin – Kottarathil Satheesh Varma

Mridangam – Abilash p Gopinath

Morsing – thiruvananthapuram Sajikumar

Time: 07.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Flute – Ambikapuram G K Sivaraman

Violin – R Swaminathan

Mridangam – A R Rajeesh

Ganjira – Uduppi Sreekanth

Time: 08.00 pm to 09.00 pm
Vocal – L Sivadarana

Violin – Thiruvananthapuram Mahadevan

Mridangam – M K Babu

Morsing – Thamarakkudy Rajasekharan

Akashavani (Thrissur / Kozhikode/ Thiruvananthapuram stations) live broadcast of ChembaiSangeetholsavam will be on the following days
06 Dec :  09.30 am – 12.30 pm, 07.30 pm -08.30 pm
Concerts by K S Sethumadhavan, T Sreenivasan (Nadaswaram), C S Sajeev (Vocal), Balamani Eswar (Vocal), S Hareesh (Vocal), Nandini Sankar (Vocal), Varkkal C S Jayaram (Vocal), Geetha Anilkumar (Violin), K P Sreela (Vocal), Baby Sreeram (Vocal) etc.
07 Dec :  09.30 am – 12.30 pm
Concerts by M R Devi Vasudevan (Veena), Dr Sadanam Harikumar (Vocal), Vidhya M S  (Vocal) etc.
08 Dec : 09.30 am – 12.30 pm, 07.30 pm -08.30 pm
Concerts by Jayalekshmi Shekhar (Veena), Sreeranjini Kodampily (Vocal), Sreevalsan J Menon (Vocal), Pathmesh (Flute), Usha Vijayakumar (Ghottuvadyam) etc.
09 Dec : 08.30 am – 12.30 pm, 07.30 pm -08.30 pm
09.00 am – 10.00 am : Pancharatnakeerthanalapanam
Concerts by Thamarakkadu Govindan Namboothiri (Vocal), Vaikom Rajammal (Vocal), Jayasree Rajeev (Vocal), Mavelikkar p Subrahmaniam (Vocal) etc.
10 Dec :  09.30 am – 12.30 pm, 07.30 pm -08.30 pm
Concerts by Balambal (Veena), Chandrika gopinath (Vocal), A E Vamanan Namboothiri (Vocal), K G Jayan (Jayavijaya) (Vocal) etc.