CHENNAI, December 4: Narada Gana Sabha has announced the schedule for the season 2008-09. As usual, the annual music festival this season will also feature, concerts by leading artistes, dance recitals, harinama sankirtanam, lec-dems and what not. The season will commence on December 14 and last till January 1, 2009. The schedule is given below.

For details, contact, + 91 - 44 - 2499 3201 / 2499 0850

ISAI NATYA NATAKA VIZHA: December 14, 2008 - January 1, 2009

HARINAMA SANKIRTANAM by Bhagavatha Sammelana Samajam led by Swami Namananda Giri: December 25, 2008 to January 1, 2009, at 7 a.m.

THIRUPPAVAI UPANYASAM by U Ve Kalyanapuram R Aravamudhachariar: December 16, 2008 to January 13, 2009 at 7 a.m

Programs at Main Hall

December 14, 2008 (SUN)
04:15 PM	Teynampet PKM Ravi and party (nadaswaram)
06:00 PM	Inauguration of festival by E S L Narasimhan (Governor of Chattisgarh) Bharatanatyam guru Adyar K Lakshman will receive the NADHA BRAHMAM award
07:00 PM	Kadri Gopalnath (saxophone) A Kanyakumari (violin) Haridwaram AK Palanivel (thavil) Bangalore Amrit (kanjira) Bangalore Rajasekar (morsing)
December 15, 2008 (MON)
02:00 PM	Praveen Kumar (Bangalore) Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	O S Thyagarajan (vocal) Sriram Parasuram (violin) Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam (mridangam) T V Vasan (ghatam)
07:30 PM	Leela Samson (Kalakshetra) Bharatanatyam
December 16, 2008 (TUE)
02:00 PM	Smita Madhav Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	S Sowmya (vocal) Embar Kannan (violin) H S Sudhindra (mridangam)
07:30 PM	A Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan (violin duet) K V Prasad (mridangam) Bangalore N Amrit (kanjira)
December 17, 2008 (WED)
02:00 PM	M Amrithavarshini Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	T N Seshagopalan (vocal) V V Ravi (violin) Trichur Narendran (mridangam) E M Subramaniam (ghatam)
07:30 PM	Kalakshetra presents dance drama MASQUERADE - The Man in the Iron Mask
December 18, 2008 (THU)
02:00 PM	Bhavya Balasubramaniam Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	Nrithyasree Mahadevan (vocal) R Hemalatha (violin) Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (mridangam) Trichy K Murali(ghatam)
07:30 PM	Carnatica Brothers (vocal) B Raghavendra rao (violin) Guruvayur Dorai (mridangam) Madipakkam Murali (ghatam)
December 19, 2008 (FRI)
02:00 PM	Gopu Kiran Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	K J Jesudas (vocal) Nagai Muralidaran (violin) K V Prasad (mridangam) Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (ghatam)
07:30 PM	SITA KALYANAM by Kalyanapuram U Ve Kalyanapuram R Aravamudhachariar R Hemalatha (violin) Melakaveri Balaji (mridangam)
December 20, 2008 (SAT)
02:00 PM	Sailaja - PURANOOTRU THAI - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	P UNnikrishnan (vocal) S Varadarajan (violin) Mannargudi A Eswaran (mridangam) T V Vasan (ghatam)
07:30 PM	Urmila Sathyanarayanan Bharatanatyam
December 21, 2008 (SUN)
10:00 AM	B Kannan (veena) Tanjore Murugaboopathi (mridangam) Trichy K Murali (ghatam) B Sreesundar Kumar (kanjira) AS Krishnan (morsing)
02:00 PM	Srekala Bharath presents MAHILA MAHIMA - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	Aruna Sairam (vocal) Embar Kannan (violin) Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam) S V Ramani (ghatam)
07:30 PM	Malavika Sarukkai - Bharatanatyam
December 22, 2008 (MON)
10:00 AM	Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam (vocal) M Narmada (violin) Tanjore Ramdas (mridangam) N Guruprasad (ghatam)
02:00 PM	Uma Ramesh - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	Hyderabad Brothers (vocal) M A Sundaresan (violin) Srimushnam V Raja Rao (mridangam) B S Purushothaman (kanjira)
07:30 PM	Rajeswari Kala Mandir (Mumbai) presents KANDA LEELA - Bharatanatyam
December 23, 2008 (TUE)
10:00 AM	Radha Venkatachalam (vocal) V L V Sudarshan (violin) Manakkal Sriram (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Smita Madhav Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	Sanjay Subramaniam (vocal) Nagai Muralidharan (violin) Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam) K V Gopalakrishnan (kanjira)
07:30 PM	Rajeswari Sainath- Bharatanatyam
December 24, 2008 (WED)
10:00 AM	N Ramani (flute) R K Sriramkumar (violin) K Arun Prakash (mridangam) Papanasam Sethuraman (kanjira)
02:00 PM	Vaishnavi - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	T M Krishna (vocal) Mysore Manjunath (violin) Trichy Sankaran (mridangam) B Sreesundar Kumar (kanjira)
07:30 PM	Sonal Mansingh - Odissi
December 25, 2008 (THU)
10:00 AM	AAYIRAM UDHAI VANGIYA APOORVA CHINTAMANI - drama by S Ve Shekar
02:00 PM	Lakshmi Ramaswami - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	Priya Sisters (vocal) V V Srinivasa Rao (violin) B Sivaraman (mridangam) B Sreesundar Kumar (kanjira)
07:30 PM	Shobana - Bharatanatyam
December 26, 2008 (FRI)
02:00 PM	Shoba Sharma Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	T V Sankaranarayanan (vocal) H K Venkatraman (violin) Tanjore Murugaboopathay (mridangam) Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (kanjira)
07:30 PM	Ganesh - Kumaresh (violin duet) Jayanthi Kumaresh (veena) Bangalore Praveen Kumar (mridangam) N Guruprasad (ghatam)
December 27, 2008 (SAT)
10:00 AM	CHOCKLATE KRISHNA - drama by Crazy Mohan
02:00 PM	Vidya Subramaniam - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	Ranjani - Gayatri (vocal) H N Bhaskar (violin) Manoj Siva (mridangam) K V Gopalakrishnan (kanjira)
07:30 PM	Narthaki Nataraj - Bharatanatyam
December 28, 2008 (SUN)
10:00 AM	SWADESHI IYER - drama by Y G Mahendra & UAA troupem
02:00 PM	Jayanthi Subramaniam - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	U Srinivas (mandolin) Mullaivasal G Chandramouli (violin) Tanjore Murugaboopathy (mridangam) S V Ramani (ghatam) Srirangam Kannan (morsing)
07:30 PM	Neyveli R Santhanagopalan (vocal) V V Ravi (violin) Neyveli R Narayanan (mridangam) N Govindarajan (ghatam)
December 29, 2008 (MON)
02:00 PM	Lavanya Ananth - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	Bombay Jayashree (vocal) Embar Kannan (violin) Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam) S Karthick (ghatam)
07:30 PM	O S Arun (vocal) Vittal Ramamurthy (violin) J Vaidyanathan (mridangam) Srirangam S Kannan (morsing)
December 30, 2008 (TUE)
02:00 PM	Shobana Bhalchandra - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	Sudha Raghunathan (vocal) B Raghavendra Rao (violin) Nyveli Skandasubramaniam (mridangam) R Raman (morsing)
07:30 PM	Sikkil Gurucharan (vocal) Durai Balasubramaniam (violin) R Ramesh (mridangam) B Sreesundar Kumar (kanjira)
December 31, 2008 (WED)
02:00 PM	Sunanda Narayanan - Bharatanatyam
04:30 PM	N Ravi Kiran ( chitra veena) Akkarai Subbalakshmi (violin) Trichy R Sankaran (mridangam) B S Purushothaman (kanjira)
07:30 PM	Dhananjayans & Bharata Kalanjali - Bharatanatyam
January 1, 2009 (THU)
07:00 AM	Radha Kalyanam
04:30 PM	R K Srikantan (vocal) Rudrapatnam S Ramakanta (vocal support) M A Sundareswaran (violin) K V Prasad (mridangam)
07:30 PM	Padma Subrahmanyam - Bharata Nrithyam
LEC-DEMS December 22 - 31, 2008 From 9.30 AM to 11.30 AM at Mini Hall
Dec 22	AKSHAYA LINGA VIBHO - B Madhavan
Dec 23	MUSIC TRADITION IN TEMPLES - B M Sundaram
Dec 24	RAGHAVA & KRISHNA IN THE SAME SLOKAS (Raghava Yadhaviyam) - Kausalya Sivakumar
Dec 25	VEENAI - THE SAGA OF EVOLUTION - Jayanthi Kumaresh
Dec 26	ETTUKADAI SWARAMS, CHITTASWARAMS & SWARA SAHITHYAMS - Radha Bhaskar & party
Dec 27	THEVARAM - Valayapatti Krishnan, TV Sundaravalli & party
Dec 28	KAPI IN BHARATANATYAM - Sujatha Vijayaraghavan & party
Dec 29	COMPOSERS FROM KERALA - Neela Ramgopal & party
Dec 30	VATSALYA, SRINGARA & BHAKTI RASAS IN PURANDARADASA'S COMPOSITIONS - Chitra Visweswaran & party
Dec 31	IMPORTANCE OF SAHITHYAM IN COMPOSITIONS - Madurai Sundar & party

PRE-FESTIVAL CONCERTS
December 3 to December 13
Venue: Mini Hall
Admission free

December 3, 2008 (WED)
04:30 PM	Mohan Santhanam (vocal) B Ananthakrishnan (violin) Erode K Nagaraj (mridangam)
06:30 PM	Subha Ganesan (vocal) Poorna Vaidyanathan (violin) Karaikudi VM Ganesan (mridangam) Nanganallur Swaminathan (ghatam)
December 4, 2008 (THU)
04:30 PM	Padmini Ravi (vocal) Jayanthi Keshav (violin) Uzhavur Babu (mridangam) G Saikrishnan (ghatam)
06:30 PM	S Srinivasan (veena) Kalakkadu R Srinivasan (mridangam) Pudukkottai N Ramachandran (ghatam)
December 5, 2008 (FRI)
04:30 PM	Akshay Padmanabhan (vocal) Akkarai Sornalatha (violin) Thirupoonthuruthi V Viswanathan (mridangam) V V S Manian (kanjira)
06:30 PM	Sankari Krishnan (vocal) V Suresh Babu (violin) R Sankaranarayanan (mridangam) Nerkunam S Sankar (kanjira)
December 6, 2008 (SAT)
04:30 PM	Mahanadhi Shobana (vocal) V V Ravi (violin) Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar (mridangam) H Sivaramakrishnan (ghatam)
06:30 PM	Geeta Raja (vocal) V L Kumar (violin) Manakkal Sriram (mridangam) N Sundar (morsing)
December 7, 2008 (SUN)
04:30 PM	Hamsini Nagendra (vocal) Neela Jayakumar (violin) V R Jayakumar (mridangam) G Saikrishnan (ghatam)
06:30 PM	Sankaran Namboodri (vocal) Pudukkottai Ambikaprasad (violin) B Ganapathy Raman (mridangam) Adambakkam Shankar (ghatam)
December 8, 2008 (MON)
04:30 PM	G Ravikiran (vocal) R SAtish Kumar(violin) Konerirajapuram Varadarajan (mridangam)
06:30 PM	Sathur Sisters (vocal) Srilakshmi Venkatramani (violin) Neyveli Ramkumar (mridangam) G Chandrasekara Sarma (ghatam)
December 9, 2008 (TUE)
04:30 PM	Jayamangala Krishnamani (vocal) Roopa Natesan (violin) Tirupathi Sudakar (mridangam) Nanganallur Swaminathan (ghatam)
06:30 PM	Trivandrum Krishnakumar (vocal) S P Ananthapadmanabha (violin) A S Ranganathan (mridangam) S Ravikrishnan (ghatam)
December 10, 2008 (WED)
04:30 PM	Trichy Pradeep Kumar (vocal) M Rajeev (violin) M R Srikrishnan (mridangam) Alathur T Rajaganesh (kanjira)
06:30 PM	Visalakshi Nithyanand (vocal) Melakaveri Thiagarajan (violin) Hanumanthapuram Boovaragan (mridangam) Malaikottai R M Deenadayalu (morsing)
December 11, 2008 (THU)
04:30 PM	Amritha Murali (vocal) Ranjani Ramakrishnan (violin) B Sivaraman (mridangam) H N Guruprasad (ghatam)
06:30 PM	B Govindarajan (vocal) Trichy Govindarajan (violin) Nellai Balaji (mridangam) Ernakulam S Ramakrishnan (ghatam)
December 12, 2008 (FRI)
04:30 PM	Varalakshmi Anandakumar (vocal) Poorna Vaidyanathan (violin) Paiyur C Gopalakrishnan (mridangam)
06:30 PM	Geeta Rajasekar (vocal) Mysore Srikanth (violin) Delhi Sairam (mridangam) H Sivaramakrishnan (ghatam)
December 13, 2008 (SAT)
04:30 PM	Torento Brothers (vocal) T Hemamalini (violin) Mudhra Bhaskar (mridangam) V V S Manian (kanjira)
06:30 PM	Subashini Parthasarathy (vocal) Amritha Murali (violin) T K Ramakrishnan (mridangam) G Ravichandran (ghatam)
December 15, 2008 (MON)
10:00 PM	Sikkil Mala Chandrashekar (flute) Neyveli S Radhakrishna (violin) H S Sudhindra (mridangam) N Guruprasad (ghatam)
12:30 PM	Prashanth Radhakrishnan (saxophone) Sudha R S Iyer (violin) Tanjore Balakrishnan (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Radha Bhaskar (vocal) V Suresh Babu (violin) Trivandrum Balaji (mridangam) G Ravichandran (ghatam)
December 16, 2008 (TUE)
10:00 PM	Sherthalai K N Ranganatha Sarma (vocal) Vittal Ramamurthy (violin) Tanjore Ramdas (mridangam) Madipakkam Murali (ghatam)
12:30 PM	S M Vilasini (vocal) Arunachala Karthick (violin) S G Balakrishnan (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Vasundhara Rajagopal (vocal) Melakaveri Thyagarajan (violin) Nellai Balaji (mridangam) N Sundar (morsing)
December 17, 2008 (WED)
10:00 PM	Madurai R Sundar (vocal) Sherthalai Sivakumar (violin) Umayalpuram Mali (mridangam) Giridhar Udupa (ghatam)
12:30 PM	Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath (vocal) Adit Krishna Prakash (violin) Swamimalai Girish (mridangam)
02:00 PM	V Shankaranarayanan (vocal) S P Ananthapadmanabha (violin) Bangalore Rajakesari (mridangam) Malaikottai R M Denadayalu (ghatam)
December 18, 2008 (THU)
10:00 PM	Shankar Ramani (vocal) Meera Sivaramakrishnan (violin) Tanjore Kumar (mridangam) Pudukottai N Ramachandran (ghatam)
12:30 PM	M R Subramaniam (vocal) S Kartick (violin) S Venkatasubramanian (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Kunnakudi M Balamurali Krishna (vocal) Ambika Prasad (violin) H S Sudhindra (mridangam) D V Venkatasubramaniam (kanjira)
December 19, 2008 (FRI)
10:00 PM	V K Manimaran (vocal) Bangalore Balu Raghuraman (violin) Srimushnam V Raja Rao (mridangam) Trichy K Murali (ghatam)
12:30 PM	Bharathi Ramasubban (vocal) Giridhari (violin) J Aravind (mridangam)
02:00 PM	S Mahathi (vocal) Melakaveri Thiagarajan(violin) B Ganapathiraman (mridangam) Anirudh Athreya (kanjira)
December 20, 2008 (SAT)
10:00 PM	Sangeetha Swaminathan (vocal) Padma Shankar (violin) Melakaveri Balaji (mridangam) Adambakkam K Shankar (ghatam)
12:30 PM	K Sathyanarayana (keyboard) Karaikkal Venkatasubramaniam (violin) Thillaisthanam R Suriyanarayanan (mridangam)
02:00 PM	T N S Krishna(vocal) Nagai R Sriram (violin) B Sivaraman (mridangam) B S Purushothaman (kanjira)
December 21, 2008 (SUN)
10:00 PM	B Vijaya Gopal (flute) Nishant Chandran (violin) Neyveli Venkatesh (mridangam) A S Shankar (ghatam)
12:30 PM	R Raghavendra (vocal) Arunachala Karthick (violin) S J Arjun Ganesh (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Mambalam Sisters (vocal) R Hemalatha (violin) Kallidakuruchi Sivakumar (mridangam) K S Rangachari (kanjira)
December 22, 2008 (MON)
12:30 PM	Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (vocal) Akkarai Sornalatha (violin) Thirunageswaram T R S Manikandan (mridangam)
02:00 PM	A S Murali (vocal) Bangalore Balu Raghuraman (violin) Kumbakonam A Saravanan (mridangam) A S Krishnam (morsing)
December 23, 2008 (TUE)
12:30 PM	Bharat Sundar (vocal) Roopa Natesan (violin) Kumbakonam K Swaminathan (mridangam)
02:00 PM	K Gayatri (vocal) R Satish Kumar (violin) Delhi Sairam (mridangam) Nerkunam S Shankar (kanjira)
December 24, 2008 (WED)
12:30 PM	Aditya Prakash (vocal) Bangalore Vittal Rangan (violin) K S Ramana (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Sriram Gangadharan (vocal) Akkarai Subbalakshmi (violin) J Vaidyanathan (mridangam) B S Purushothaman (kanjira)
December 25, 2008 (THU)
12:30 PM	K P Nandhini (vocal) Smitha Krishnan (violin) Akshay Padmanabhan (mridangam)
02:00 PM	R Surya Prakash (vocal) Nishant Chandran (violin) B Sivaraman (mridangam) M Hari Babu (ghatam)
December 26, 2008 (FRI)
12:30 PM	Aishwarya Raghavan (vocal) Deepa K Murthy (violin) Madurai B Sundar (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Akkarai Sisters (violin duet) B Ganapathiraman (mridangam) H Sivaramakrishnan (ghatam)
December 27, 2008 (SAT)
12:30 PM	Nirmala Rajasekar (veena) R Hemanth (mridangam) G Chandrasekara Sarma (ghatam)
02:00 PM	Chinmaya Sisters (vocal) L Ramakrishnan (violin) Hanumanthapuram Boovaragan (mridanga,) N Rajaraman (ghatam)
December 28, 2008 (SUN)
12:30 PM	N Subbalakshmi - Hyderabad (vocal) M Rajeev (violin) Arjun Narayanan (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Dr. R Ganesh (vocal) Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan (violin) A S Ranganathan (mridangam) A S Shankar (ghatam)
December 29, 2008 (MON)
12:30 PM	Delhi Mahalakshmi (vocal) Srividya Iyer (violin) V Srinivasan (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Subashree Ramachandran (vocal) B Ananthakrishnan (violin) Madipakkam Suresh (mridangam) Nanganallur Swaminathan (ghatam)
December 30, 2008 (TUE)
12:30 PM	Kuldeep Pai (vocal) Parur Ananthakrishnan (violin) Manikudi Chandrasekar (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Geeta Bennett (veena) Bala Shankar (mridangam) S Ravikrishnan (ghatam)
December 31, 2008 (WED)
12:30 PM	R Kashyap Mahesh (vocal) C N Srinivasamurthy (violin) S Venkatasubramaniam (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Nisha Rajagopal (vocal) Amirtha Murali (violin) Calcutta Aravind (mridangam) G Chandrasekara Sarma (ghatam)
December 1, 2009 (THU)
12:30 PM	Ramakrishnamurthy (vocal) Arunachala Kartick (violin) Tanjore Praveen Kumar (mridangam)
02:00 PM	Sandeep Narayanan (vocal) H V Raghuram (violin) A V Manikandan (mridangam) S Venkatraman (ghatam)