December Music Festival - Schedule

	Gayathri Venkataraghavan
	SEASON 2010-11
DATE	SABHA	Time	VENUE	Violin	Mridangam	G / K
1-Dec	BVB	7.00PM	BVB Main	Akkarai.Subbalakshmi	Manoj Siva	Anirudh-K
4-Dec	Nalina Kanthi	6.30PM	Janaki MGR	Ranjani Ramakrishnan	TanjoreKumar	Nergunam shankar
6-Dec	Naada Brahmam	6.30PM	PS Dakshina	N.C.Madav	Kallidaikurichi.Sivakumar	Alathur Rajaganesh-K
7-Dec	Nung.Cultural	7.00PM	RamaRao	Padma Sankar	Kallidaikurichi.Sivakumar	Alathur Rajaganesh-K
12-Dec	Sruthi Laya Kendra	4.00PM	Venus Colony	MAKrishnaswami	Neyveli.Narayanan	Anirudh-K
13-Dec	Vani Mahal	6.30PM	Vani Mahal	Mys.Srikanth	Manoj Siva	N.Guruprasad-G
16-Dec	Karthik Fine Arts	5.00PM	BVB Main	V.V.Ravi	Mann.J.Balaji	Madipakkam.Murali-G
17-Dec	Music Academy	4.15PM	MA	BUGaneshprasad.	Ganapahy Raman	Umasankar-G
19-Dec	Mudhra	6.00PM	Infosys Hall	Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi	Mannargudi Easwaran	Papanasam Sethuraman
20-Dec	Bhrahma Gana Sabha	6.30pm	Siv.Pethachi	Vittal Ramamurthy	Arun Prakash	KVG -K
21-Dec	Nadalaya-Valayapatti	4.00pm	MahaswamyAdyar	PakkalaRamadass	Ney.Skanda subramaniam	Rajaganesh-K
23-Dec	Kalarasana	6.00pm	RaniSeethai Hall	VVSMurari	Ganapathy Raman	Papanasam.Sethuraman-K
25-Dec	Naada Inbam	6.00pm	RagaSudhaHall	Ak.Subbalakshmil	Tiruvaroor.Vaidyanathan	Trichy Murali-G
26-Dec	IFAS	4.30pm	Balamandir Hall	Dr.Narmada	Poogulam.Subramaniam	Guruprasad-G
28-Dec	Krishna Gana Sabha	4.00pm	KGS	Padma Sankar	J.Vaidyanathan
29-Dec	Bharath Kalachar	4.00pm	BK Auditorium	Padma Sankar	ErodeNagarajan	Rajaganesh-K
30-Dec	Pathasarathy swami sabha	6.30pm	Vidhya Bharathi	Charulatha Ramanujam	Neyveli Skanda Subramaniam	A.S.Krishnan-M
2011
Jan 6,11	Naada suda,Velachey	6.00pm	Ganapathy Sachi	Padma Sankar	Trvdm.Balaji	Rajaram -G
Jan 8,11	Asthiga Samajam	6.00pm	Amara Bharathi	Ranjani Ramakrishnan	Erode Nagaraj
	Thiruvanmiyur
Jan 11,11	Pammal Satsang	6.00pm	Pammal	Ranjani Ramakrishnan	Ganapathy Raman	Papanasam.sethuraman

Dear Friends, the Music season is round the corner and I am sure musicians and rasikas are busy with preparations to gear up for performing and listening.. I always feel excited about the season and feel it is one of it's kind in the world. I pray to the Almighty that all my friends have fantastic concerts and that everybody's health, voice ! and stomach(ala the canteens!) cooperates and the season is a big success again for all.

To the rasikas happy listening and hope the non residents who fly down for this gala event have a remarkable time.

musically yours
gayathri venkataraghavan

It's Guruvaram

Dear Friends and well wishers , Namaskarams, It's Guruvaram and I believe it is most auspicious. This year started with a lot of Guruarul..I had multiple blessings...
Singing at the Ramakrishna Ashram for Gurumaharaj jayanthi at Coimbatore.This institution is one of the biggest(In terms of Size) in India . It supports hundreds of students and teachers..I was amazed at the attention to details from the first telephonic conversation to the thank you letter after the concerts with Photographs..Just showed the sincerity and dedication of the inmates and teachers and the Gurumaharaj there..

Then comes the oppurtunity to sing a prayer at the Vivekananda youth conference, I sang Moorthamaheswara and Jayamundu Bhayam illai of Subramanya Bharathiyar for this function..The Chennai University has a wonderful auditorium and I wish I had sung a concert there..But what a blessing to sing for this occasion..No fear when we have Guru Arul I felt..

The blessing continues....When we did a concert for The Madras Sharada Mutt for Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Jayanthi..Akkarai Swarnalatha and Erode Nagaraj accompanied me..Strangely no man is allowed in the dias here..But Mataji was kind enough to let us sing from a corner of the dias where Nagaraj was allowed to be seated, also shows the respect that a musician evokes....We may sing thousands of concerts but when sung in religious places replete with Spiritual energy, the entire mind and body is recharged..

That was a full circle really...Then came the opportunity to sing before Swami Ganapathi Sachidanandaji.Then we had a concert at P.S Senior where I sang a number of songs on Ramana Maharishi ...

We can get fame, money and oppurtunities but Sath Sangam comes only with His grace.. Also my husband went with the Mantralaya Sangeetha Samarpana Group headed by Dr.Ganesh and has been talking about the trip all the time.. I hope to go next year..

I'll try and upload the pictures of some of these concerts..

Also I'll try and blog every week...
எல்லோருக்கும் குருஅருளும் திருஅருளும் என்றும் நிலைக்கட்டும்

With regards to all of you
gayathri venkataraghavan

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