Chembai Sangeetholsavam 2017, the music festival at Guruvayur from 15th November

The 43^rd Chembai Sangeetholsavam, the annual music festival organized by Guruvayur Devaswom will be conducted from 15 to 30 Nov 2017. The festival conducted at Guruvayur in connection with the Ekadasi festival of Guruvayur Srikrishna temple is dedicated to the legend of  Carnatic music late Chembai Vaidyanatha Bagavathar.

Chembai Sangeetholsavam 2017 will begin with the inaugural concert by Padmabhushan T N Krishnan (violin) on 15^th Nov at Melpathur Auditorium (Chembai Sangeethamandapam), Guruvayur. The highlight of the 16-day music festival is 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) held in the morning of the previous day to the concluding date (29 Nov).

Chembai Sangeetholsavam 2017

Venue: Melpathur Auditorium, Guruvayur, Thrissur Dt. (Kerala, India)

Special Concerts

15 Nov (Wednesday):

07.00 pm - Inaugural Concert
Violin – Padmabhushan T N Krishnan
Violin – Viji Krishnan
Mridangam – Thiruvananthapuram V Surendran
Ghatam – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan, Chennai.

 16 Nov (Thursday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Amrutha Venkitesh
Violin – Avaneeswaram S R Vinu
Mridangam – Palakkad Mahesh Kumar
Ghatam – Thiruvananthapuram Rajesh
Mukharsankhu – Payyannur Govindaprasad

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Cheppad A E Vamanan Namboothiri
Violin – Dr M Narmada
Mridangam – Patri Satheeshkumar
Ghatam – Vazhapally Krishnakumar

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Saxophone – Kadri Gopalnath
Violin – A Kanyakumari
Tavil – Alappuzha Karunamoorthy
Tabla – Rajendra Nagoor
Mridangam – Palakkad Mahesh Kumar
Mukharsankhu – Bangalore Rajasekhar

17 Nov (Friday):

06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Hindustani Bhajans – Dr Kavitha Krishnamoorthy
Harmonium – Abhilash Venkitachalam
Tabla –R Ratnasree

07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Bangalore Brothers – Hariharan & Asok
Violin – Mathoor Sreenidhi
Mridangam – B S Prasanth
Ganjira – Uduppi Sreekanth

08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Violin – Dr L Subrahmaniam
Mridangam – V V RamanaMoorthy
Ghatam – Trippunithura Radhakrishnan

18 Nov (Saturday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Nityasree Mahadevan
Violin – M A KrishnaSwamy
Mridangam – Neyveli Skandasubrahmanian
Ghatam – Uduppi Balakrishnan

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – RamakrishnaMoorthy
Violin – Vittal Rangan
Mridangam – K V Prasad
Ghatam – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan, Chennai

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Veena – Subhashini Sasthri
Mridangam – K M S Mani
Ghatam – Aluva Rajesh

 19 Nov (Sunday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Niranjana Sreenivasan
Violin – Dr V Sindhu
Mridangam – Bura Sreeram
Ghatam – Mangad Pramod
Morsing – Thiruvananthapuram Sajikumar

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Padmabhooshan Madhura T N Seshagopal
Violin – Thrissur Rajendran
Mridangam – Thrissur Narendran
Ganjira – Neetul Aravind

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Nadaswaram – Chinnamannur VijayKartik
Tavil – Idumbavanam B Prakash Ilayaraja
Tavil – Nagoor K Selvaganapathy
Tavil – Kavalam B Sreekumar

 20 Nov (Monday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – S Mahathy
Violin – Mysore HN Bhaskar
Mridangam – Delhi Sairam
Ganjira – Arundh Asraya
Morsing – Kalamandalam Shyju

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Mahadeva Sankaranarayanan
Violin – V V Sreenivasa Rao
Mridangam – Alappuzha G Chandrasekharan Nair
Ghatam – harippad S R Sekhar
Morsing – Paravur Gopakumar

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Harmonium – Thiruvananthapuram V Sivakumar
Violin – Manjur Ranjith
Mridangam – Thrissur Jayaram
Ghatam – Alappuzha G Maniharan

 21 Nov (Tuesday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Chinmaya Sisters- Uma & Radhika
Violin – Bindu K Shenoy
Mridangam – Guruvayur Sanoj
Ghatom –  Kumarakom Ganesh Gopal
Morsing – Kottayam Murali

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – P Unnikrishnan
Violin – T H Subrahmaniam
Mridangam – Mannargudi A Eswaran
Ghatam – Dr V Karthik

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Chitraveena – P Ganesh
Violin – Vaikom Padma Krishnan
Mridangam – B Sivaraman
Ghatom – Attingal Madhu

 22 Nov (Wednesday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Balamani Eswar (Madhurai)
Violin – Ambalappuzha Pradeep
Mridangam – Kadanad Gopi
Ganjira – Kadanad Ananthakrishnan
Ghatom – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Neyveli Santhagopalan
Violin – R K SreeramKumar (Chennai)
Mridangam – Kuzhalmannam G Ramakrishnan
Ganjira – B S Purushotham
Morsing – Thamarakkudi R Rajasekhar

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Keyboard – R Arjun Sambasivan & R Narayanan (Keyboard Brothers)
Violin – Thiruvizha Viju S Anand
Mridangam – Dr G Babu
Ghatom – Manjoor Unnikrishnan

 23 Nov (Thursday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Sreeranjini Kodampally
Violin – Kodampally Gopakumar
Mridangam – Sai Giridhar (Chennai)
Ghatom – Vellattanjor Sreejith
Morsing – Neyyattinkara Krishnan

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – V Sankaranarayanan (Chennai)
Violin – N V Babu Narayanan
Mridangam – Papanasam kumar
Ghatam – Uduppi Sreedhar

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm : Vadyatharng
Vilin – Attukal Balsubrahmaniam
Veena – Kozhikode Sowdararajan
Keyboard – Jijith V T
Mridangam – Bombay Ganesh
Tabla – Jayadevan
Ghatam – Adichanelloor Anilkumar

 24 Nov (Friday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Shankari Krishnan
Violin – S EswaraVarma
Mridangam – Cherthala G Krishnakumar
Ghatom – Ennakkadu Maheswaran
Morsing – Vellinezhi Ramesh

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal - Sakethraman
Violin – Trichi N C Madhav
Mridangam – K Jayakrishnan
Ghatom – Perukavu P L Sudheer

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm : Jugalbandhi
Slide Guitar – Prakash Sondakka
Harmonium – Prakash Ulliyeri
Mridangam – Anand R Krishnan
Tabla – Mahesh Mani

 25 Nov (Saturday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Saralaya Sisters – Kavitha & Thriveni
Violin – R Saminathan
Mridangam – Mangad Jagadeendran
Ghatom – Thiruvananthapuram V Karthikeyan

 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Sreevalsan J Menon
Violin – Edapally Ajithkumar
Mridangam – Trichi Sankaran
Ghatom – Koval Suresh
Morsing – Thirunakkara Ratheesh

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Flute Duet – Hemamba & Heramba
Violin – Achutha Rao
Mridangam – Akshay Anand
Ghatom – Anjal Krishnayyar


 26 Nov (Sunday):
06.00 pm – 06.30 pm:
Vocal – Usha Eswar Bhatt (Kasargode)
Violin – K Prabhakaran
Mridangam – Narayana Prakash
Ghatam – Trippunithura Kannan

 06.30 pm – 07.00 pm :
Vocal – Moozhikkulam Vivek
Violin – N Sampath
Mridangam – Cherthala Jayadevan
Ganjira – Sreevaraham Manoj

 07.00 pm – 07.30 pm:
Veena – R Rajalekshmi
Mridangam – Changanassery Jayan
Ghatom – Thiruvananthapuram Ramasamy

 27 Nov (Monday):
06.00 pm – 06.30 pm:
Vocal – Bindu Suresh (Iritti)
Violin – Guruvayur Narayanan
Mridangam – Aluva Gopalakrishnan
Tabla – D Vijayakumar

 06.30 -07.00 pm:
Vocal – Ambalappuzha Vijayakumar
Violin – Uduppi Balasubrahmaniam
Mridangam – Kadamanitta Manu
Ghaom – Iraniyel SubrahmaniaSharma

 07.00 pm – 07.30 pm :
Flute – Murali Narayanan
Violin – Kaipattor Radhakrishnan
Mridangam – Talavoor Babu
Ghatom – Kurichithanam S Ananthakrishnan

 28 Nov (Tuesday):
06.00 pm – 06.30 pm:
Vocal – Nallepally Suneeti
Violin – radika Parameswaran
Mridangam – Kallenkulangara Unnikrishnan
Ghatom – Deepu Elamkulam

 06.30 – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Vivek K C
Violin – Anand Jayaram
Mridangam – Kozhikode N Nagaraj
Ghatom – Vellinezhi Satheesh

 07.00 – 07.30 pm:
Veena – Nisha Ponni
Mridangam – Aneewsh Kuttamperoor
Ghatam – P V Narayanan

 29 Nov  (Wednesday):
06.00 – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – R Venkiteswaran
Violin – Killikkurissimangalam E P Ramesh
Mridangam – Kodunthirapally Parameswaran
Ganjira – Trippunithura Gopalakrishnan

 07.00 – 07.30 pm:
Flute – Hariprasad
Violin – Kummanam Upendranath
Mridangam – Changanassery Satheesh
Ganjira – panamattam Arun

 30 Nov(Thursday):
06.00 - 07.00pm:
Vocal – R K Renjith
Violin – Dr Vrinda Varma
Mridangam – Arun Chnadrahasan
Ghatom – Gopinatha Prabhu

 07.00 – 07.30 pm:
Flute – Ananthapuri Anandakrishnan
Violin – Kottayam Hariharan
Mridangam – Vaikom Prasad
Ghatom – Kumarakom Ganesh Gopal

The whole program will be telecast through internet and various medias. Ākāshvānī (All India Radio) will be broadcasting the event live from 26th Nov. Doordarshan Malayalam will telecast Chembai Sangeetholsavam from 20th November daily at 11.00 pm and repeat telecast at 05.00 am next day morning. The special concerts held on these days are listed below.

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