R R Sabha Fest in January

Rasika Ranjani Sabha Mylapore will confer the title 'Kala Rathna' on senior vocalist S. Rajam during the Annual Music Festival commencing on Jan. 23, 2007.

This function will be followed by a violin solo recital by Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and Party.

This year's music festival of R.R. Sabha will be conducted at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Auditorium and will conclude on Jan. 31.

For festival concert details contact :2464 1767 R. R. Sabha functions at 1,Sundareswarar Street, Mylapore.

For more details:www.rrsabhamylapore.in.

P. S. : Did you ask yourself whatever happened to the Sundareswarar Hall of R R Sabha? Well, it was demolished earlier this year (Some people felt it needn't have been; it needed to be restored - after all it is a heritage arts institution).

Anyway, the sabha managers let things drag on on their new plans. The drawing board plans look spectacular.

But every time you ask them when the project will go on stream, you get muffled answers.Perhaps, the sabha will have its 2007 season fest at its new premises.

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Dance Festivals

Though the 'December' season comes to an end at the dawn of the new year, classical dance concerts continue in the city.

Sri Krishna Gana Sabha has dance performances lined up from Jan. 1 to 11. Dancer Narthaki Nataraj will perform on Jan. 1. Young dancers Lakshmi Hariharan, Logambal Souprayen, Girish Panikkar, N. Gayathri, Priya Venkataraman, Priya Sabhanayakam, Manaswini Ramachandran, Vaishnavi Sainath, Charanya Ragothaman and Pavitra Bhatt will perform at the festival.

Brahma Gana Gana hosts a dance festival from Jan. 1 to 15. Young dancers will perform at the 4.30pm and 6pm slots everyday. Senior dancers Jayanthi Subramaniam, Srekala Bharat, Shylaja, Bragha Bessel and A. Lakshman are among the performers at 7.30.

The programmes will be held at Sivagami Pethachi Auditorium, M.Ct.M School campus.

The Music Academy, for the first time, is hosting a major dance fest after the Sadas. ( starts on Jan.3 evening) Its managers say that if the response to the fest is good then this event may become a part of the 'season' calendar.

Lec-dems in the morning and performances in the evening with dance features scheduled for the 7.30 pm slot.

Season tickets ( Rs.2000, Rs.1500 and Rs.500 - daily ticket at Rs.400, Rs.300 and Rs.100). Call 2811 2231 for more info here.