Whom are you going to listen to this season?

[bilahari]

I am quite ecstatic that I will be able to make it to Chennai this year after all, but will miss the rasikas meet as I'm only arriving a few days after. Anyway, I just wanted to know what artistes everyone wants to listen to this season.

I have in my list some of my usual favourites:
TNK
MSG
Neyveli Santhanagopalan
Sanjay
Vijay Siva
Gayathri Venkataraghavan
Hyderabad Brothers?
Ranjani Gayathri?
Malladi Brothers?

Some people I have only heard once or twice and want to listen to again:
Parassala Ponnammal
Injikudi Subramaniam
V. Shankaranarayanan
Trichur Brothers?
Kunnakudi BMK?

Some musicians I have never listened to before:
Ramani
Kalpagam Swaminathan
Vedavalli
Neela Ramgopal
Suryaprakash
Amritha Murali
B. Kannan

As usual, time is a seriously limiting reagent. Also, I'm not one of those people who can listen to multiple concerts daily and appreciate each. For me, two concerts a day is about the saturation mark.

What about you?

[semmu86]

R.K.Srikantan

Vedavalli mami

Flute Ramani (If at all he is playing... Because i heard sometime back that he is recovering from an operation in his throat for a tumour like complication).

KalyANapuram ArAvamudhAchAriAr's harikatha @ the Academy on the 23rd morning.. (Dont know if he has any other programmes..If yes, those prgms also. Last year, Mudhra organised 2 harikathA programmes of this great artiste.. It was a great effort by them to include harikathA as a part of the regular music festival ..The "Soodikudutha sudarkodi" and "KrishNa LeelA" which he presented, is still ringing in my ears... Hope this year also they include it.. Hoping for Smt.Radha Bhaskar to read this post )...

Malladi Bros...

N.Ravikiran

TVS

OST

And on the days when am in Chennai, am also hoping to attend the "thiruppAvai" upanyAsam by Sri. KalyANapuram ArAvamudhAchAriAr at the Narada Gana Sabha mini hall from morning 7-8....He tells one thiruppAvai per day through out the mArgazhi month every year...

[csuresh]

My list is as below.
1.Sanjay
2.Ranjani&Gayathri.
3.Bombay Jayashri.(prefereably at MFA on 24th evening)
4.Vidhya Kalyanaraman(First time)
5.Abishek raguraman.(First time)
6.Sudha Ragunadhan(SGS on 25th morning)
7.R.K.Srikantan
8.Prince Rama Varma
9.V.ShankaraNarayanan
10.TMK(on 1St January)
11.Aruna Sairam(To be part of over flowing MA on 26th like last year)
12.Surya Prakash.
13.R.Vedavalli
14.Any new combinations like 3 Violins(All siblings of TNK,MSG and LGJ similar to one we ahd at YACM celebration in august)
15.Saketaraman.
16.Parasala Ponnammal.

[srikant1987]

Time is probably going to be as big a crunch for me this time as for bilahari, if not more. I might have to miss the regular vocalists to make room for others.

Regulars

T N Krishnan
Kalpakam Swaminathan
Kalyani Ganesan
(No more Trivandrum R Venkataraman ;( -- what a big musical blankness!)
Rama Ravi
R Vedavalli
Suguna Varadachari
T V Sankaranarayanan (he's something between a regular and "heard earlier" for me, actually)
Ramakrishnan Murthy
Amritha Murali

First time

R K Srikantan
Nednuri Krishnamurthy (is he performing)
R Ramani (veena)
Malladi Suribabu
Injikudi Subramaniam (nadaswaram)
Rahul Narayan(an?)
Neela Ramagopal
Trichur V Ramachandran
Jayashre Jayaraj

Heard earlier, but not often

Parasalla Ponnammal
Mambalam Siva (nadaswaram)
Sangeetha Sivakumar
Ranjeeth Warrier
Amrutha Venkatesh
Bangalore S Shankar
-- don't think there are any violin solos/duets of younger (still accompanying) people in the season -- they'll all be accompanying I think. won't that make a major incompleteness in a CM season?
Iyer brothers
V V Subramaniam

Indeed, while I'm in Bangalore, I should probably come to Chennai to be able to listen to Vid. Neela, Amrutha or even Vid. Shankar!

[ramamantra]

veterans

1. Vedavalli
2. TNS
3. TVS
4. OST
5. TNK
6. MSG


Seniors

1. Sanjay
2. Vijaysiva
3. Gayatri Venkataraghavan
4. Hyd Brothers

Other Great singers

1. Manda Sudharani
2. Pantula Rama
3. Amritha Murali
4. Kunnakudy Balamuralikrishna
5. VR Dileep Kumar (Wonder if I have got this name right, the trichy guy who learns from Pallavi expert Shri J Venkatraman.)

Good singers

1. Sandeep Narayanan
2. Shobha Sriram
3. Kotapalli Vandana
4. S. Malavika

[rajeshnat]

5. VR Dileep Kumar (Wonder if I have got this name right, the trichy guy who learns from Pallavi expert Shri J Venkatraman.)

Trichy Pradeep Kumar is the right name.

[braindrain]

Trichy Pradeep Kumar is the right name.

Or Trichur V R Dileep Kumar ....

[pattamaa]

Trichy Pradeep Kumar is the right name.

Or Trichur V R Dileep Kumar ....

Both are different persons, and indeed good singers, worth listening in the season, not sure whether Dileep is performing in chennai though.