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Presents 25th FINE ARTS FESTIVAL From 7-12-2019 to 5-1-2020 At Infosys Hall, Ramakrishna Mission School Campus, 31, Street, T.Nagar, Chennai – 600 017 (opp. to Joyalukkas and adjacent to Shah showroom) Inauguration & Award function on 7th December 2019 (Saturday) at 5.30 p.m. MUDHRA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE to Mannargudi Shri.A.Easwaran (Outstanding Mridangam Exponent & Guru) (Instituted by Dr.Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti) Award to Kutcheri Competition winners S.Srivathsan (Vocal) Udupi Srijith (Violin) Aravind Srikanth (Mridangam) Instituted by Sri.R.Krishnamurthy, Smt.Parvathi Krishnamurthy & Washington Prof. Sivakumar 7th Dec 2019 4.00pm Nadaswaram by Chinnamanur A.Vijayakarthikeyan & Saturday Idumbavanam V.Prakash Ilayaraja – Nadaswaram Idumbavanam K.S.K.Manikandan & Srirangam M.Muthukumar - Tavil 5.30pm Festival Inauguration and Award function 7.00 pm O.S.Thiagarajan – Vocal Nagai Muralidharan – Violin Mannargudi A.Easwaran & Mudhra Bhaskar–Double Mridangam 8th Dec.2019 6.15p.m. Trichur Brothers – Vocal Sunday M.A.Sundaresan – Violin Trichur Mohan –Mridangam D.V.Venkatasubramaniam - Ghatam 9th Dec.2019 6.15 p.m. Anahita & Apoorva – Vocal Monday M.Vijay –Violin Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam N.Sundar - Moharsing 10th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Gayathri Girish - Vocal Tuesday Udupi Srijith – Violin (Kutcheri competition winner 2019) Aravind Srikanth –Mridangam(Kutcheri competition winner2019) Trivandrum Rajagopal – Kanjira 11th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. S.Srivathsan–Vocal(Kutcheri competition winner 2019) Wednesday Usha Rajagopalan- Violin M.S.Varadan– Mridangam H.Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam

12th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Neyveli Santhanagopalan – Vocal Thursday Delhi Sundararajan – Violin Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam – Mridangam Vaikom Gopalakrishnan – Ghatam 13th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Abhishek – Vocal Friday H.N.Bhaskar – Violin Patri Satish Kumar – Mridangam V.Suresh - Ghatam 14th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. – Vocal Saturday L.Ramakrishnan – Violin N.C.Bharadwaj – Mridangam Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira 15th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Sid Sriram – Vocal Sunday H.N.Bhaskar – Violin Patri Satish Kumar – Mridangam Giridhar Udupa – Ghatam Bangalore Rajasekar – Moharsing 16th Dec 2019 6.45 p.m. Stage Creations presents Tamil Drama Monday Kathadi Ramamurthy in NANDRI MEENDUM VAANGA by S.L.Naanu 17th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. A.Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan - Violin Duet Tuesday Dr.Haridhwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel – Tavil Patri Sathish Kumar - Mridangam 18st Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Ramakrishnan Murthy – Vocal Wednesday R.K.Sriram Kumar - Violin Dr.Trichy Sankaran - Mridangam K.V.Gopalakrishnan – Kanjira 19th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Malladi Brothers Thursday Sriram Prasad and Ravikumar - Vocal Duet S.Varadarajan – Violin Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman – Mridangam Sree Sundarkumar – Kanjira 20th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Ranjani & Gayatri – Vocal Duet Friday L.Ramakrishnan – Violin Manoj Siva – Mridangam S.Krishna - Ghatam 21st Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. “Strings Attached” - Dr.Jayanthi (Veena) & Kumaresh (Violin) Saturday B. Harikumar – Mridangam Trichy Krishnaswamy – Ghatam 22nd Dec 2019 8.30 am Radha Kalyanam by Cuddalore Gopi Bhagavathar Sunday 22nd Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna – Vocal Sunday Mysore Manjunath – Violin Srimushnam Raja Rao – Mridangam Guruprasanna - Kanjira 23rd Dec 2019 6.30 pm NATYASMRITHI by Geetha Sridhar(Eminent Artistic Director) Monday and Sukanya(Popular actress and exponent) 24th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m Gayathri Venkataraghavan – Vocal Tuesday B.U.Ganesh Prasad – Violin Manoj Siva – Mridangam B.S.Purushotham – Kanjira 25th Dec 2019 9.30 am “Khandam Square(52)” – A unique presentation by Dr.Sriram Wednesday Parasuram for Silver Jubilee year 25th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. O.S.Arun – Bhajans Wednesday Karaikkal Venkatasubramaniam – Violin B.Ganapathy Raman – Mridangam Martin – Tabla B.Srikrishnan – Harmonium A.Selvam - Talam 26th Dec 2019 6.45 p.m. Crazy Creations presents Balaji in Tamil Drama ‘CPL Thursday (Crazy Premier League)by Crazy Mohan 27th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. T.V.Sankaranarayanan - Vocal Friday Nagai Muralidharan – Violin Mannargudi A.Easwaran – Mridangam Alathur Rajaganesh – Kanjira 28th Dec 2019 6.30 p.m. Thematic Dance presentation Sheela Unnikrishnan presents Saturday VANDE MATHARAM by disciples of Natayalaya 29th Dec 2019-Sunday 9.30 am INFO QUIZ – by Dr.Radha Bhaskar and Gayathri Girish 29th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. SIVANUM SIVANUM Sunday Harikatha by Vishaka Hari Sai Rakshith – Violin Neyveli Skandasubramaniam – Mridangam Trichy Murali - Ghatam 30th Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. SPECIAL INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT - Dr.L.Shenkar(Double Monday Violin) - Rajhesh Vaidhya(Veena) – Praveen Narayan(Tabla) – Sai Hari(Ghatam) 31st Dec 2019 6.15 p.m. Sikkil Gurucharan – Vocal Tuesday T.K.V.Ramanujacharyulu – Violin Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam – Mridangam V.Suresh – Ghatam 1st Jan 2020Wed 9.45 am Sthree Thyagaraja Pancharathnam by all women artists 1st Jan 2020 6.45 pm Y.GEE.MAHENDRA presents UAA’s IDHU NYAYAMA SIR by Wed Venkat 2nd Jan 2020 6.15 pm Aditya Madhavan - Vocal Thursday Mantha Sriramya – Violin Rohit Prasad- Mridangam Madipakkam Murali - Ghatam 3rd Jan 2020 6.15 pm Madurai N.Sivaganesh – Vocal Friday Vaibhav Ramani – Violin Krishna Pawan Kumar – Mridangam Sunil Kumar - Kanjira 4th Jan 2020 6.15 pm Srirangam Venkatanagarajan – Vocal Saturday Tirucherai Karthick – Violin Sunaada Krishna Amai – Mridangam K.Ranganathan - Ghatam 5th Jan 2020 5.00pm SPECIAL FOUR HOUR CONCERT by Sunday to Bharat Sundar - Vocal 9 .00 pm L.Ramakrishnan – Violin Delhi Sairam – Mridangam K.V.Gopalakrishnan – Kanjira

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FESTIVAL

- Daily special programmes on the evening for 33 days - Special photo exhibition from 1995 to 2019 - Release of special Souvenir on the occasion of Silver Jubilee Celebrations - Release of Mudhra- Paalam Music directory 2020 - Releasing documentaries on the 32 concepts introduced by Mudhra - Conducting Special Lec dem series( Anubhav Festival) in February - Conducting Special INFO QUIZ -Grand Felicitation Function on 12th Jan 2020 to celebrate 25 years of Mudhra

Silver Jubilee Festival Committee Dr.Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti N.Gopalaswamy Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam Vani Jairam Dr.N.Ramakrishnan Naresh Purushotham Mudhra Bhaskar Dr.Radha Bhaskar Dr.Sriram Parasuram Gayathri Girish Kannan Balakrishnan Mannarkoil Balaji Jaisri Jeyaraaj Krishnan Dr.Baby Sreeram Kalyani Shankar C.Ramakrishnan Calcutta Kala Chitra Chitra Suresh Kumar Svarathmika Prema Rajasekar Sangeetha Sankar Umashankar R.Suresh Dr.Bhavani Pichamurthy Madhu Ravishankar Sasikala Sankar