Bangalore Ramanavami Concerts Schedule 2024

[Secretariat]

Main Concerts

Newcomers to Bangalore - See bottom of the post for directions to the three main Sabhas

09 Apr (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : Mysore Nagaraj/Mysore N Karthik, Violin Duet @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Trichur Brothers – Edapally Ajith – Trichur Mohan – Kovai Suresh @ Fort High School Grounds

10 Apr (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : Vignesh Ishwar & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Kumaresh / Jayanthi Kumaresh -Jayachandra Rao – Trichy Krishna @ Fort High School Grounds

11 Apr (Thursday)
6.30 PM : Suma Sudhindra (Violin) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Abhishek Raghuram – Mysore Srikanth – Arjun Kumar - Rajasekhar @ Fort High School Grounds

12 Apr (Friday)
6.30 PM : Saralaya Sisters & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Ramakrishnan Murthy – Charumathi Raghuraman – Jayachandra Rao - Guruprasanna @ Fort High School Grounds

13 Apr (Saturday)
6.30 PM : Palghat Ramprasad & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Vishaka Hari – Charulatha Ramanujam – Arjun Ganesh – Sukanya Ramgopal @ Fort High School Grounds

14 Apr (Sunday)
10.00 AM : S.Shankar & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Sunil Gargyan & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Aruna Sairam – HM Smitha – Sundararaman - Omkar @ Fort High School Grounds

15 Apr (Monday)
6.30 PM : Kumaresh /Jayanthi Kumaresh & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : S Shankar/Ramana Shankar – Charulatha Ramanujam – Tumkur Ravishankar – Bharadwaj Sathavalli @ Fort High School Grounds

16 Apr (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : Vidyabhushana & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Kalavathy Avadhoot – Charulatha Ramanujam – Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma - Guruprasanna @ Fort High School Grounds

17 Apr (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : Shruthi Bhat & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Mylai Karthikeyan (Nadaswaram) & Party @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Sivasri Skandaprasad – Pradeshachar – Adamya Ramananda – Karthik Ravikumar @ Fort High School Grounds

18 Apr (Thursday)
6.30 PM : Balakrishna / Vamshidhar (Veena & Flute) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Kruthi Vittal – Vittal Rangan – BS Prashanth – Anil Parasaran @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Sikkil Gurucharan – Charulatha Ramanujam – Bangalore Praveen – Giridhar Udupa @ Fort High School Grounds

19 Apr (Friday)
6.30 PM : Saketharaman & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : S Ramani Shankar – S Janardhan – Vinod Shyam – Gopi Shravan @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Pandit Venkatesh Kumar (Hindustani) – Satish Kolli – Keshava Joshi @ Fort High School Grounds

20 Apr (Saturday)
5.00 PM : Niranjan Dindodi & Party
7.00 PM : Sivasri Skandaprasad & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Rahul Vellal – Vaibhav Ramani -Nagendra Prasad Subbu – Srinidhi Koundinya @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM Mysore Nagaraj /Manjunath – Bangalore Praveen – Guruprasanna – Giridhar Udupa @ Fort High School Grounds

21 Apr (Sunday)
6.30 PM : HK Venkatram / Vishnu Venkatram (Violin) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Dushyanth Sridhar Discourse @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Sandeep Narayan & Jayateerth Mevundi (Jugalbandhi) – Mathur Srinidhi – Milind Kulkarni – Sai Giridhar – Ishaan Ghosh @ Fort High School Grounds

22 Apr (Monday)
6.30 PM : Pushpa Kashinath (Veena) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Dhanya Dinesh – S Janardhan – BS Prashanth @ Seshadripuram College
5.15 PM : Malini Ramasubramanyam & Party @ Fort High School Grounds
7.30 PM : Vijayaa Shanker & Party @ Fort High School Grounds

23 Apr (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : Kruthi Vittal & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Omkarnath Havaldar (Hindustani Vocal) – Sameer Hawaldar – Karthik Bhat @ Seshadripuram College
5.15 PM : Girijashankar Sundaresan – Nishanth Chandran – BS Prashanth – Kiran Kumar @ Fort High School Grounds
7.30 PM : Balu Masti & Party @ Fort High School Grounds

24 Apr (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : JB Sruthi Sagar (Flute) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.00 PM : Medha Manjunath – Keshav Mohankumar – Kaushik Sridhar @ Seshadripuram College
7.30 PM : Rao R Sharath – Pradesh Achar – Pavan Masoor @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Dushyanth Sridhar Discourse “The Queen of Ayodhya” @ Fort High School Grounds

25 Apr (Thursday)
6.30 PM : Vivek Sadasivam & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Anjali Sriram – Vishwajit Mathur – BS Prashanth – Sunad Anoor @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Vidyabhushana – Pradeshachar – Bangalore Praveen - Ravikumar @ Fort High School Grounds

26 Apr (Friday)
6.30 PM : Malladi Suri Babu & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.00 PM : Keerthana Narasimhan – Amruthavarshini – Usloor N Sagar @ Seshadripuram College
7.30 PM : Anjana P.Rao - Keshav Mohankumar – Ranjini Venkatesh – Shamith Gowda @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Saketaraman – Mysore Karthik – Vijay Natesan – Guruprasanna @ Fort High School Grounds

27 Apr (Saturday)
5.00 PM : Anagha Yoganand & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
7.15 PM : Archana/Samanvi & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Hemantha /Heramba (Flute) - Vaibhav Ramani – BS Prashanth – Sunaad Anoor @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : U Rajesh (Mandolin) – HN Bhaskar – Fazal Qureshi – Bangalore Praveen @ Fort High School Grounds

28 Apr (Sunday)
4.15 PM : Ramana Balachandran (Veena) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
7.00 PM : Jai Shri Ram (Kannada Drama) @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Laya Vadya Taranga by students of Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Ranjani & Gayathri – Vittal Rangan – Delhi Sairam - Omkar @ Fort High School Grounds

29 Apr (Monday)
6.30 PM : Kalavathi Avadhoot & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.00 PM : G Pranavi (Violin) – Prajwal Bharadwaj – Harishchandra @ Seshadripuram College
7.30 PM : Medha Vidyabhushana – Pradesh Achar – Nagendra Prasad – Raghunandan @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Varijashree Venugopal – Mathur Srinidhi - Tumkur Ravishankar – Bhradwaj Sathavalli @ Fort High School Grounds

30 April (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : Ravana Vadhe (Yakshagana) @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Ranjani Vasuki – Venkatesh Josyer – Anoor Vinod Shyam - Karthik @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : HK Venkatram (Violin) & Ashwani Shankar (Shenai) – Jayachandra Rao – Rajendra Nakod @ Fort High School Grounds

01 May (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : Prince Rama Varma & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Sooryagayathri & Party @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Priya Sisters – Mysore Srikanth – Sai Giridhar – Madipakkam Murali @ Fort High School Grounds

02 May (Thursday)
6.30 PM : Nagamani Srinath & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Varijashree Venugopal & Party @ Seshadripuram College
6.45 PM : Malladi Brothers – Mysore Karthik – Arjun Kumar – Giridhar Udupa @ Fort High School Grounds

03 May (Friday)
6.30 PM : G Mohan Rangan /G Ravikiran (Flute) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Sumanth Manjunath / Malavi Manjunath (Violin) & Party @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Harish Sivaramakrishnan – Mysore Karthik – Rajesh Nath – Guruprasanna @ Fort High School Grounds

04 May (Saturday)
6.30 PM : Mysore Manjunath / Sumanth Manjunath / Malavi Manjunath (Violin) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Lavanya Krishnamurthy – Vaibhav Ramani – Anirudh Srinivasa Bhat – Bhargav Halambi @ Seshadripuram College
6.45 PM : Unnikrishnan & Uttara Unnikrishnan – Shreya Devnath – Praveen Sparsh - Ravi @ Fort High School Grounds

05 May (Sunday)
4.15 PM : Carnatic Quartet – Shreya Devnath / Mylai Karthikeyan / Praveen Sparsh / Adyar Silambarasan @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
7.00 PM : Chitrakala Dance Ensemble Bharatanatyam @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Akkarai Sisters (Vocal) – HM Smitha – Arjun Kumar - Omkar @ Fort High School Grounds

06 May (Monday)
6.30 PM : Udyalur Kalyanaraman Namasankeerthanam @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Yogakeerthana – Aditi Krishna Prakash – Vinod Shyam – Bhagyalakshmi Krishna @ Seshadripuram College
6.45 PM : Bangalore Brothers – HK Venkatram – HS Susheendra – BR Ravikumar @ Fort High School Grounds

07 May (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : Chandana Bala Kalyan & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.00 PM : Nivetharam /Varsha (Veena) – Prithvi Krishna – Krishna Prasad @ Seshadripuram College
7.30 PM : R Sindhu – Karthikeya Ramachandra – Aravind @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Vinay Sharva – Mathur Srinidhi – Jayachandra Rao – Bharadwaj Sathavalli @ Fort High School Grounds

08 May (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : Gayathri Kamakoti & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.45 PM : G Ravikiran – Charulatha Ramanujam – Arjun Kumar - Rajasekhar @ Fort High School Grounds

09 May (Thursday)
6.30 PM : Sidddhartha Belmannu (Hindustani Vocal) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.45 PM : GJR Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi (Violin) – Arjun Kumar – Sukanya Ramgopal @ Fort High School Grounds

10 May (Friday)
6.30 PM : Ricky Kej Live in Concert @ Fort High School Grounds

Guidance for newcomers to Bangalore

Shree Ramaseva Mandali is the grand old Sabha in Bangalore. This is the 86th Ramanavami music festival and is conducted in a huge pandal at the Fort High School Grounds in Chamarajpet. Google Maps location is here

Sree Seshadripuram Ramaseva Samithi conducts the Ramanavami Music Festival at the Seshadripuram College Quadrangle. This is the 76th edition of the annual festival. Google Maps Location is here

Vani Kala Kendra conducts the concerts at the Sri Vani Education Centre School at Basaveshwaranagar. Google Maps location is here

Only the Fort High School concerts are ticketed. Both Season Tickets and Daily Tickets are available at the venue. Advance booking is not really required. The pandal can seat some 1500 people and so walkins are easy. Ranjani/ Gayatri 's concerts usually get full and so coming a little early is advised. All concerts in the other two Sabhas are free and seats easily available.

Unlike Chennai there are no Sabha canteens. There is a make shift facility at Fort High School, but any rasika used to Chennai's canteen extravaganza will be sorely disappointed.

Concerts do not start and end on time. Cringeworthy vote of thanks in the middle of the concert is sadly the norm.

Parking is a problem in all three locations although there is some parking which gets full at Fort High School. This being Bangalore, parking randomly on roads is of course possible !

[rajeshnat]

Lovely post with a great spread in ramanavami in bangalore. You have given crisp notes and what is necessary. Welll done Secretariat or should i call vidhan soudha. I have been once to Fort High School that was A kanyakumari too big a hall for most concerts . But it can scale that is the key. Best wishes to all artists and kudos to the organizing committee

[Secretariat]

One change in the Ramaseva Mandali schedule at Fort High School.

On 20th April (Friday) it will now be Nithyasree Mahadevan and Party
On 22nd April (Monday) it will now be Mysore Nagaraj /Manjunath – Bangalore Praveen – Guruprasanna – Giridhar Udupa

[hnbhagavan]

The biggest problem in the Fort High School concerts is the start time of concerts.Even though it is at 06:30,but actually start time will be by 7:00 PM.The senior citizens who cannot afford car are in great disadvantage.Perhaps the timings are due to Techies to attend the concerts.
The Ramanavami organisers can take a leaf out of Chennai season to maintain the timings.

[Secretariat]

The biggest problem in the Fort High School concerts is the start time of concerts.

Sadly, this is a general disease in Bangalore across Sabhas. Both artistes and organisers take start times very lightly (easy to blame it on traffic). And then they fiddle with the sound system endlessly. Sanjay Subramaniam , whenever he performs in Bangalore, starts dot on time. If he can do it, so can everybody else. It's just sheer lack of professionalism and taking rasikas for granted.

[hnbhagavan]

Yes Sir
A few personalities start well on time.Sanjay Subramaniam is on the top of list.He and his team are ready 15 minutes in advance and there are no mike adjustments.I have noticed Lalgudis start well on time too.In the present traffic condition and public transport system one cannot stay beyond 9 PM if there is no independent transport.I have suggested to Mandali many times to start by 6 PM the main concert so that by 9 PM concert can be over.

[Secretariat]

Changes to Seshadripuram Concert Schedule

Concerts scheduled for 25th April and 26th April are cancelled due to elections. Seshadripuram college is presumably a polling venue.

Additional concerts are as follows

8 May (Wed) : Anjali Sriram / Vishwajit Mattur / Ranjani Venkatesh / Sunaad Anoor
9 May (Thu) : Vinay Varanasi & Vivek Sadasivam (Story telling & Vocals) / Madan Mohan / Adamya Ramanand
10 May (Fri) : Rithvik Raja / Shreya Devnath / Praveen Sparsh / Sunaad Anoor