O S Thiagarajan - M.A.Sundaresan - B Harikumar - Suresh
Partial song list
geetharthamu - surutti - T - (RST)
rangam srirangam - kambodi - ??
lekanaa ninnu - asaveri - T
laalee yugave - neelambari - T.
challare ramachandru - ahiri - T
nadhupai - madyamavathi
mangalam
i was almost an hour late & OST was launching into a beautiful surutti. it was a indeed a pleseant surprise to hear surutti as the main raga. the kriti very well rendered with brisk swarams. MA sundaresan was outstanding & matched OST phrase to phrase .Harikumar & suresh played a brilliant thani. OST then sang a tamil kriti in kambodi which i was hearing for the first time. The pallvi was 'rangam srirangam ranganathan urangum arangam thiruvarangam ' & was modelled on 'O rangasayee', and is definitely worthy to be sung as a main kriti.Overall a nice concert & OST was in full flow.OST complimented the co artists & said next year also he would love to perform with the same team.
The sweet music was topped up with a sweeter pongal as the prasadam.
The concerts are now being held in a new hall built next to the temple. Though the seating was more like a marriage hall, the acoustics was decent. The ambience was also good & inspite of being a free temple concert, the disturbances were almost nil. The overflowing hall would have definitely been an inspiration for the artist. There many standing in all available space & i had stand almost till the end .Another heatening feature was that the audience didin't leave before or during the tani & stayed till the end and gave a well deserved standing ovation to the artists.