Marghazhi Utsavam in Chennai

I'm Listing you Few Concert Schedules of Sudha Raghunathan.

Bharathya Vidya Bhavan 28-11-2010 7.00 p.m.

Brahma gana Sabha 05-12-2010 6.00 p.m

Mylapore Fine Arts 26-12-2010 6.00 p.m

Music Academy 28-12-2010 4.15 p.m

Naradha Gana Sabha 31-12-2010 4.30 p.m

Complete Schedule for December season 2010 is being updated and will be available shortly at www.carnaticamusic.com

The background for the Margazhi festival is interesting. I dont see the concert schedule in the site. Can you suggest any place where I can see the schedule? I love to go Sudha Raghunathans concerts.

The Margazhi festival was started way back in 1927, as an event to commemorate with the founding of Madras Music Academy in the month of December. This event was widely accepted & patronised by the public at large, due to various reasons, prominent among which are possibly, that it is a cool time in the otherwise hot & sultry city and secondly it is holiday time. This culture was adopted by various other sabhas that hold art festivals in different parts of the city.

According to an analysis by the 'Sruti' magazine,
* Fifty-three organisations conducted 60 festivals in a period of 117 days.
* They presented a total of 1604 music & dance performances in this period.
* The total included 134 music concerts & 280 dance performances.

Possibly nowhere else in the world so many organizations conduct so many festivals offering so many music & dance performances in so short a period of time.