Sri Ramaseva Mandali Charitable Trust, Mysuru North, will celebrate the 32nd Ramanavami festival from Mar. 20 to 29 at Sri Prasanna Parvathi Kalyana Mantapa, adjacent to Sri Chandramouleeshwara Swamy Temple in V.V. Mohalla.
As usual, every day from 8.30 am to 10.30 am, there will be religious activities such as Abhisheka, Ashtottara, Navagraha Puja, Ramayana Parayana and Aarti to Lord Rama.
On Mar. 22, for Loka Kalyana, Sri Rama Taraka Homa will be performed. Purnahuti will take place around 11 am.
On Mar. 29, there will be Seetha Sahasranama Archane from 9.30 am followed by Sri Rama Pattabhisheka, Mahamangalarati and Prasada distribution at 11.30 am.
Daily in the evening there will be cultural extravaganza. From 5.15 pm to 6.15 pm, young blooming artistes will perform. R. Rashmi, Rajath Sharma, Sriharsha, Suditi, S.M. Sridevi, Shama, Chandana R. Sanjay and Sharada will give Karnatak vocal concerts while on Mar. 22 Pranav Swarup will render Hindustani classical vocal.
Daily from 6.15 pm to 9 pm, nationally reputed artistes will enthral the rasikas.
Mar. 20 at 6 pm: Dr. M. Jagannath Shenoy, Industrialist & Art Patron, will inaugurate the festival series. Later, Mysore M. Nagaraj & Dr. Mysore M. Manjunath will present a Violin Duet. Arjun Kumar & Tumkur B. Ravishankar will provide Rhythm on Double Mridanga.
Violinist Brothers, trained under their father Mahadevappa, received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award from the Government of India in 2017. They have metamorphosed their prodigious talent to blossom into brand ambassadors of Indian classical music. They have performed at all major centres in the world with stalwarts at all major events. Recently, Dr. Manjunath had the privilege of producing ‘Vande Mataram’ during its 150th year with leading musicians and presented the same in the presence of PM Narendra Modi.
Mar. 21: Revati Sadasivam will render a Veena concert alongwith G.S. Ramanujam on mridanga and Sumukh Karanth on khanjira.
Revathi, a renowned Veena performer, is trained in Veena under her father-in-law and guru Anantharama Iyer. She has performed at several concerts and has also trained many upcoming musicians on Veena. Revathi and her husband A. Sadhasivam heads ‘Guruguha Gana Vidhyalaya’ in Bengaluru.
Mar. 22: Renowned Harikatha exponent Dushyanth Sridhar will give a discourse on ‘Gayatri Ramayana,’ a very rare part of Valmiki Ramayana.
Dushyanth delivers talks on Hindu spiritual topics, including the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata Mahapurana, Vishnu Purana, Divya Prabandham and the lives and works of Hindu saints. He renders traditional pravachana, is a harikatha exponent, author, director and actor.
He manages Deśika Dayā, a charitable trust that carries out cultural and spiritual activities. Dushyanth has delivered over 3,500 discourses across 23 countries. A religious activist, in the last decade, he has organised heritage tours to 200 temples with over 3,500 yātrīs.
Mar 23: A vocal concert by Kalyanpuram Arvind, along with Aditi Krishna Prakash on violin, Anoor Anantakrishna Sharma on mridanga and Sharath Kaushik on ghata is organised.
Kalyanapuram Aravind’s tutelage under the legend T.N. Seshagopalan gives him a solid baseline. His concerts are packed with several contrasting kritis, raga and tala spectrum. Aravind belongs to a family of rich cultural and vedic heritage which includes senior Harikatha Exponent ‘Kalaimamani’ Kalyanapuram R. Aravamudachariar and Kalyanapuram R. Veeraraghavachariar who are his paternal uncles.
Mar. 24: Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath will enthrall the audience with a vocal concert accompanied by Dr. Jyotsna Srikant on violin, C. Cheluvaraju on mridanga and N. Gurumurthy on ghata.
Aishwarya, a Karnatak vocalist from Bengaluru, is an ‘A’ grade artiste with All India Radio and Doordarshan. Being trained in Karnatak music at the age of three, she received foundational instruction from Seethalakshmi Venkatesan and later P.S. Narayanaswamy, Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Vegavahini Vijayaraghavan and Vidwan R.K. Shriramkumar. She has performed at major venues and received multiple awards.
Mar. 25: One of the top notch artistes, Sikkil Gurucharan with Mattur Srinidhi on violin, Arjun Kumar on mridanga and G. Guruprasanna on khanjira will give a feast of vocal music to the rasikas.
Sikkil Gurucharan, the grandson of Sikkil Kunjumani, received initial lessons in music from his mother Mythili and later received advanced training from S. Gnanaskandan, a disciple of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and is currently being mentored by B. Krishnamurthy. He is an ‘A’ grade All India Radio artiste. In 2020, he acted in a Tamil anthology film, ‘Putham Pudhu Kaalai.’
Mar. 26: Young sensation Sunil Gargyan will render a vocal concert accompanied by Dr. Jyotsna Srikant on violin, H.S. Sudheendra on mridanga and G.S. Ramanujam on ghata.
Sunil Gargyan, an All India Radio ‘A’ grade artiste, is learning Karnatak music from the age of 3 under Nagai S. Bhashyam. He gave his first performance at the age of 5 and is a recipient of Central Government Scholarship (CCRT). His subsequent Gurus are P.B. Shrirangachari, Shriram Parasuram and P.S.Narayanaswamy.
Mar. 27: A ‘Sankeertana’ will be presented by students of Raghuleela School of Music, under the Direction of Sunitha Chandrakumar, an extraordinary musician who is a worthy feather in the cultural crown of Mysuru.
She is a great example of how a woman can succeed in this male-dominated music industry, especially in the aspects of music composition. To her credit, she has marvellous music albums composed by herself and sung by some of the big shots of Indian Music industry like Shreya Ghoshal, S.P. Balasubramanyam, Vijay Prakash, Praveen Godkindi and many others.
Sunitha, as a kid, learnt Karnatak music under Vijayalakshmi and Bharatanatyam under Vishnudas. Turning point came only after she met Mysore Ananthaswamy. Sunitha is a recipient of the Best Music Composer award in light music genre at the Karnataka International Awards held in 2013 at Bengaluru.
Mar. 28: Dr. S.V. Sahana on veena and A.P. Srinivas on violin will delight the audience with their veena-violin Juglabandi. Percussion by Arjun Kumar on mridanga and G. Omkar Rao on ghata.
Dr. S.V. Sahana and A.P. Srinivas are a husband-wife duo from Mysuru, who perform Karnatak classical duets, sometimes performing as part of their ensemble “Nad Ninad.” Dr. Sahana, trained under M.J. Srinivasa Iyengar and T.N. Seshagopalan, holds a doctorate in music.
Vidwan Srinivas, a Karnatak violinist, is the son of noted flutist A.V. Prakash. He learnt violin under H.K. Narasimha Murthy. Apart from being a violinist, he is a reputed Sound Engineer.
Sangita Kalaradhaki’ award to Vidushi M.S. Sheela
Mar. 29: Vidushi M.S. Sheela, a renowned senior artiste, will be awarded ‘Sangita Kalaradhaki’ for her dedication to Music. Subsequently she will present a vocal concert along with H.M. Smitha on violin, Tumkur B. Ravishankar on mridanga and R. Srinidhi Kaundinya on ghata.
Vidushi Sheela is a Karnatak classical, light music and devotional singer. She is an AIR and Doordarshan artiste in both classical and light music. She was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the President of India in the year 2019.
She got her initial musical guidance from her mother M.N. Rathna and later continued learning under R.K. Srikantan.
Sheela and her husband, through Hamsadhwani Creations, organise many music workshops, programmes by youth and seasoned musicians. An annual Hamsadhwani festival is also observed by Hamsadhwani Creations. They also felicitate great achievers of the field through ′Hamsadhwani Puraskara.′
Awards and honours for Sheela includes Sangeetha Kala Acharya from Madras Music Academy, Rajyotsava Award from the Government of Karnataka and Ganakalashree by Ganakala Parishat.
This post was published on March 18, 2026 6:35 pm