Chembai Sangeetholsavam 2019, the music festival at Guruvayur



Chembai Sangeetholsavam, the music festival conducted at Guruvayur in connection with the Ekadasi festival of Guruvayur Srikrishna temple will be held at Melpathur Auditorium (Chembai Sangeethamandapam) from 23 November to 08 December 2019. The festival dedicated to the legend of  Carnatic music late Chembai Vaidyanatha Bagavathar, is organized by Guruvayur Devaswom .
Chembai Sangeetholsavam 2019 will begin with the inaugural concert by Sangeethavidwan T S Pattabhirama Pandit (vocal) on 23rdNov, 10.30 am at Melpathur Auditorium, Guruvayur. Charulatha Ramanujam (violin), H S Sudheedra (Mridangam) and Vellattanjoor Sreejith(Ghatam) will accompany  the concert.
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, sung as chorus by over 150 artists) held in the morning of the previous day to the concluding date ( 07 Dec).


Featured Concerts                                 
23 Nov (Saturday): 06.30 pm
Vocal - Yuvakalabharathi Sandeep Narayanan, Chennai
Violin – B Ananthakrishnan
Mridangam – Padmavibhushan Dr Umayalpuram K Sivaraman
Ghatom – Vazhapally Krishnakumar

24 Nov (Sunday)
:
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Vishnubhatla Sisters- Saraswathi & Krishaveni
Violin – Bindu K Shenai
Mridangam – B V S Prasad
Ghatom – Kottayam Unnikrishnan

07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Bangalore G Ravi kiran
Violin – Thrissur C Rajendran
Mridangam – Vazhapally T S Satheeshkumar
Ganjira – Neethul Aravind

 
08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Veena - Mudikondan Ramesh
Mridangam – K M S Mani
Ghatom – Anjal Krishnayyer
Morsing – Paravur Gopakumar

 25 Nov (Monday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Manthangi Sathyamoorthy
Violin – K J Dileep
Mridangam – Kottayam Santhosh
Ghatom – Vaikom N Gopalakrishnan

 
07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Vivek Sadasivam
Violin – Dr V Sindhu
Mridangam – Kadanad V K Gopi
Ganjira – Kadanad Ananthakrishnan

 08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Violin - Kumari A Kannyakumari
Thavil - Alappuzha Karunamoorthy
Ghatom – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan
Morsing – Bangalore Rajasekhar




 
26 Nov (Tuesday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Akkara Sisters - Subhalakshmi & Swarnalatha
Violin – L Ramakrishnan
Mridangam – Pathri Satheeshkumar
Ghatom – Perukavu P.L. Sudheer

 
07.00 pm - 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Abhishek Raghuram
Violin – Edapally A Ajithkumar
Mridangam – Bangalore Arjunkumar
Ghatom - Chennai V Suresh

08.00 pm – 09.00 pm:
Veena – Jayanthi Kumeresh
Violin – Kumaresh
Mridangam – U Jayachandra Rao
Ghatom – Trichy Krishnaswamy

27 Nov (Wednesday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Mambalam Sisters - Vijayalakshmi & Chithra.
Violin – Dr Hemalatha
Mridangam – Burrah Sreeram
Ghatom – Attingal Madhu

07.00 -08.00 pm:
Vocal – Chengottai Harihara Subrahmaniam
Violin – C N Chandrasekhar
Mridangam – Srimushnam Raja Rao
Ghatom – Kovai Suresh

08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Mandolin - U. P. Raju & Nagamani Raju
Mridangam - Dr. Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan
Ghatom – Aluva Rajesh
Morsing - Kottayam Murali.


28 Nov (Thursday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Gayathri Gireesh
Violin – Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan
Mridangam – Thirunageswaram Manikandan
Ghatom – Uduppi Balakrishnan.

07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Aswathi Thirunal Ramavarma
Violin – Avaneeswaram S R Vinu
Mridangam – Dr Trichy Sankaran
Ghatom – Manjoor Unnikrishnan

08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Violin duet – Mysore Nagaraj & Mysore Manjunath
Mridangam - Yella Venkateswara Rao
Ghatom – Thrippunithura N Radhakrishnan

29 Nov (Friday)
:
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Hindustani Vocal - Abhradita Banerjee
Tabla - Ratnasree Iyer

07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Trichur Brothers - Srikrishna Mohan and Ramkumar Mohan
Violin – Karaikal Venkata Subramaniam
Mridangam –Thrissur R Mohan
Ghatom - D.V. Venkata Subramaniam

 
08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Sitar - Ravindra Goswami
Tabla – Balukrishna

30 Nov (Saturday)
:
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Dr S Soumya
Violin – Embar Kannan
Mridangam - Poonkulam Subramaniam
Ghatom – Vellattanjoor Sreejith

 
07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Palakkad Dr R Ramaprasad
Violin – N Sambath
Mridangam – Vijay Nadesan
Ghatom – Vazhapally Krishnakumar

08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Flute – Mysore Chandankumar
Violin – Vaikom Padma Krishnan
Mridangam - Prof. Vaikom P.S. Venugopal
Ghatom - Thiruvananthapuram Rajesh
Morsing – Payyannur Govindaprasad.

01 Dec (Sunday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Dr S Aswathi
Violin – Manjoor Ranjith
Mridangam – Nanjil Arul
Ghatom – Uduppi Sreedhar

07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Vighnesh Eswar
Violin – R K Sreeramkumar
Mridangam – Arun Prakash
Ghatom – R Gopinathaprabhu

08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Harmonium – N K Madhusoodhanan
Violin – Ambalappuzha Pradeep
Mridangam – Guruvayur Sanoj
Ghatom – Alappuzha G Manohar
Morsing – Thamarakkudi R Rajasekharan

02 Dec (Monday):
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – Sudha Raghuraman
Violin – Thiruvizha Viju S Anand
Mridangam – Anilakkad Jayakrishnan
Ghatom – Harippad S R Sekhar

07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Dr K N Ranganatha Sharma
Violin – V V S Murari
Mridangam – Thanjavur K Muruka Bhoopathi
Ganjira – K V Gopalakrishnan

08.00 pm – 09.00 pm : Instrumental music- Veena-Venu-Violin
Veena – V Soundara Rajan
Flute – Dr P Padmesh
Violin – Attukal Balasubrahmanian
Mridangam – Bombay Ganesh
Ghatom – Mangad Pramod

03 Dec (Tuesday)
:
06.00 pm – 07.00 pm:
Vocal – S Mahathy
Violin – Mysore HN Bhaskar
Mridangam – Delhi Sairam
Ghatom – Chandrasekhara Sharma

07.00 pm – 08.00 pm :
Vocal – Dr K S Harisankar
Violin – Dr Narmada
Mridangam – N Hari
Ghatom – Adichanalloor Anilkumar

08.00 pm – 09.00 pm :
Nadaswaram – Nenmara Brothers – Anand & Kannan.
Thavil – Alappuzha Vijayakumar
Thavil – Kavalam Sreekumar

04 Dec (Wednesday)
:
07.00 pm-07.30 pm:
Vocal – Anoop Sankar
Violin – Manjoor Ranjith
Keyboard – Vineesh K P
Flute – Adhi Swaroop
Tabla – Sandeep Chakraborthy
Timing – Aneesh K V

07.35 pm-08.30 pm:

Vocal - Dr K Omanakutty,
Violin – S EswaraVarma
Mridangam – Cherthala Jayadevan
Ghatom - Adichanelloor Anilkumar

Vocal - Thushar M K
Violin – Vayala Rajendran
Mridangam – Dr K Jayakrishnan
Ghatom – Vellattanjor Sreejith

Vocal -  K. Girija Varma
Violin – S EswaraVarma
Mridangam – Chalakkudy Ramakumar Varma
Ghatom – Alappuzha G Manohar

Vocal -  Adoor Sudarsanan
Violin – Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan
Mridangam – Kummanam Hareendranath
Ghatam – Kovai G Suresh

Highlights of the concerts held in the morning (9.30am-12.30pm) are Nadaswaram by Kottappadi Surendran & party, vocals by Bhagyalakshmi Guruvayur, Viswesh Swaminathn, Rekha Menon, Parthasaradhipuram Viswanathapillai, Ratnaprabha, R.V. Viswantahan, Geetha Krishnan, Dr M Narmada, Vivekraj K C, Geetha Anilkumar and Babu Padmanabhan.

05 Dec (Thursday):
07.00 pm – 07.30 pm:
Vocal – Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
Violin – Balu Haridas
Mridangam – Anayadi Vikas
Ghatom – Sarath
Morsing – Vaikkom Uthaman

07.35 pm-08.30 pm:

Vocal – Moozhikkulam Vivek
Violin – Vazhamuttam B Suresh
Mridangam – Thrissur B Jayaram
Morsing – Sathyasai Khandasala

Vocal – Sreevalsan J Menon
Violin – V V Sreenivasa Rao
Mridangam – Balakrishna Kammath
Ghatom – Vazhapally Krishnakumar

Vocal - Anayadi Dhanalakshmi
Violin – Vazhamuttom Suresh
Mridangam – Mavelikkara R Balachandran
Ganjira – Vishu V Kammath

Vocal - V R Dileepkumar
Violin – C Rajendran
Mridangam – Cherthala A K Ramachandran
Ghatom – Aluva Rajesh

Highlights of the morning (9.30am-12.30pm) concerts are, Flute by Vishnu Vijay, Vocals by Ayamkudi Mani, Sudha Ranjith, Valsaraj Nilayath, A D Reju, Renjini Varma, Ashtaman Pillai, Byju N Rajith, Nedumkumman Vasudevan, Anand K Raj, Vellinezhi Subrahmaniam, B Sivakumar.


06 Dec (Friday):
07.00 pm – 07.30 pm:
Vocal – Panthalam Balan
Violin – Kaipattur Radhakrishnan
Mridangam – Vazhapally Sreekumar
Tabla – Iritti Vijayakumar
Ghatom – Thiruvananthapuram Ramaswamy

07.35 pm – 08.30 pm:

Vocal - Aleppy Venkitesan
Violin – Thiruvizha Sivanandan
Mridangam – Mangad Jagadeendran
Ghatom – Thiruvananthapuram Rajesh

Vocal -  Sangeetha Sivakumar
Violin – Kodunthirapully Subbaraman
Mridangam – Palakkad Harinarayanan
Ghatam – Haripad S R Sekhar

Vocal -  M K Sankaran Namboothiri
Violin – Dr V Sindhu
Mridangam – Mavelikkara R V Rajesh
Ghatom – Kottayam Unnikrishnan

Vocal - T M Krishna
Violin – N Sampath
Mridangam - Thiruvananthapuram V Surendran
Ghatom – Perukkavu P.L. Sudheer

Highlights of the morning (9.30am-12.30pm) concerts are, Vocal by P S Seethalaakshmi, Mavelikkara P Subrahmaniam, Geethadevi Vasudevan, Dr E N Sajith, Nishanth T P, Kollam G S Balamurali, Manjusha, Varkkala C S Jayaram, M S Parameswaran, S Naveen, Vaikkom Rajammal, Nedukunnam Dr Sreedev Rajagopal.

07 Dec (Saturday):
07.00 pm – 07.30 pm:
Vocal – Sudeep Kumar
Violin – KIllikkurisimangalam E P Ramesh
Mridangam – Amaravila Padmakumar
Ghatom – Shinu Gopinath

07.35 pm – 08 .30 pm:

Vocal - Cheppad A E Vamanan Nambothiri
Violin – N V Babu Narayanan
Mridangam – Palakkad Mahesh Kumar
Morsing – Payyannur Govindaprasad.

Vocal -  Vijayalakshmi Subrahmaniam
Violin – Muttara Raveendran
Mridangam – Mulankadakam R B Ramjay
Ghatom – Mangad Pramod

Vocal -  N J Nandini
Violin – Nellai K Viswanathan
Mridangam – Cherthala Dinesh
Ghatam – Uduppi Balakrishnan

Vocal - Mannur M P Rajakumaranunni
Violin – Bindhu K Shenai
Mridangam - Palakkad A Ganesan
Ganjira – Neethul Aravind

Highlights of the morning concerts(8.30am- 12.30pm) are Pancharatna Keerthanalapanam (at 9.00am) and Nadaswaram by Vettikkavala Sasikumar & party, Vocal by Thamarakkad Govindan Namboothiri, Pushpa Ramakrishnan, Vechoor Sankar, Veena by S Balambal, Vocal by Mukhathala Sivaji, Arakkal Nandakumar, Parvathipuram Padmanabha Iyer, Kannur M P Jayasree, C S Sajeev, Dr Malini Hariharan.

08 Dec (Sunday):
07.00 pm – 07.30 pm:
Vocal – Sithara Krishnakumar
Harmonium – Sreenath Nair
Violin – Kodampilly Gopakumar
Mridangam – Hareesh
Tabla – Ratnasree Iyer
Ghatom – Vaikkom Ajithkumar

07.35 pm – 08.30 pm:
Vocal – T V Gopalakrishnan
Violin – Edapally Ajithkumar
Mridangam – Dr G Babu

Veena - Sreevani Yella (Tiruppathi)
Mridangam - Changanassery Jayan
Ghatam – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan

Vocal - Vishudev Namboothiri
Violin – Vaikom Padmakrishnan
Mridangam – Sreekanth Pulikkan
Morsing – Thamarakkudy R Rajasekharan

Vocal -  K G Jayan
Violin – Nellai Viswanathan
Mridangam – Cherthala Krishnakumar
Ghatom – Manjoor Unnikrishnan

Highlights of the morning (9.30am- 12.30pm) concerts are Vocal by Dr Mythili, Arjun B Krishna, Guruvayur Dr K Manikandan, Changanassery Madhavan Namboothiri, Anayadi Prasad, Vijayasree Haridas, Kavalam Sreekumar, Dr Preethi Satheesh, Kanjangad T P Sreenivasan, Sreeranjini Kodampilly, S K Mahathi, Abhiram Unni.

Akashvani (All India Radio) will be broadcasting the event live from 04 Dec, 09.30 am.  Doordarshan Malayalam will also telecast Chembai Sangeetholsavam 2019.

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