This year the festival is back to the first week of January.
On this margazhi morning,25 students from PS Secondary School had gathered around the chess square of the Nageswara Rao Park by 530am along with their parents and teachers including the music Guru Smt. Latha Anantharaman. By this time, the chess square had already been decorated with flowers.
Sharp at 630am, S. Sivakumar, Sr. VP, Sundaram Finance Ltd., lit the Kuthuvilakku to kick off the 2012 edition of the Sundaram Finance Mylapore Festival.
Every morning, during these four days, morning walkers will be welcomed by young teenage groups presenting the mikeless kutcheri.
This morning, 25students from PS Secondary School, Mylapore presented a lively mikeless concert.
Over 150 morning walkers and music connoisseurs sat around the chess square applauding every song presented by these young and budding artistes.
Accompanied by K Sundarrajan and Nishanth TA on the Violin, S Srivatsan and Chandrasekar on the Mridangam and Sruthi Sakthivel on the Kanjeera and directed by their Guru Latha Anantharaman, these students presented songs that included Sri Ranganathan (Aarabi), Yen Mugam Paraiya ( Amritha Varshini), Parvai Ondre Podhumey ( Surutti), Ananda Natamaduvar ( Purvi Kalyani) and Marukelara ( Jayantha Sree).
TT Srinivasaraghavan, MD, Sundaram Finance was present on the occasion and handed over certificates to the performing artistes.
Sundaram Finance has been organising the mikeless concerts at the Nageswara Rao Park as part of the Sundaram Finance Mylapore Festival since January 2004 with the aim of providing opportunities to children aged below 15years. Sundaram Finance conducts audition to select the artistes.
For audition, email: sundaykutcheri@gmail.com
