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Every year All India Radio  organizing all over the Country featuring both eminent artistes and upcoming youngsters from the stream of Hindustani and Carnatic Classical music concert at various city throughout India on same day.

This year’s Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan Concerts was held at 24 venues on 10th October, 2015(Saturday) featuring many eminent and promising artists from across the country.  This music was showcase artists from the streams of Hindustani, Carnatic, Light and Folk music.

The evening concerts for Hindustani and Carnatic music   held at 15 venues i.e. Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Indore, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jalandhar,  Goa, Nagpur, Thiruvananthpuram, and Thrissur.  The morning concerts only for Hindustani music held at 3 venues i.e. Agartala, Raipur and Jammu.  The evening concerts for Folk and Light Music was held at 6 places i.e. Dehradun, Ranchi, Rohtak, Jodhpur, Coimbatore and Vijayawada.

63 main artists and more than 150 accompanists were participated in this mega event.  These concerts scheduled for broadcast on National hookup between 7th November and 13 December 2015.

Akashvani Mangalore organized Akashvani Sangeeth Sammelana 2015 at Sri Sudhindra Auditorium, Canara Girls High School, Dongerkeri, Mangaluru on 10th October 2015 from 6pm to8.30pm.  Dr. Vasanthkumar Perla, Asstt. Station Director gave introduction speech.  All the guest artists are welcomed by Staff of All India Radio.  E. Eshwaraih, Writer felicitated during this function by G. Rameshchandran and Dr. Vasanthkumar Perla.

Sri Palakkad Sriram of Chennai performed vocal from 6pm to 7pm.  He starts with Nata Raga, Adi tala, Tyagaraja Lyrics, then he performed Malaya Marutha Raga, varali raga, Kalanidhi Raga and ends with Todi raga of Tyagaraja Lyrics.   Palakkad Sreeram was introduced to the domain of music at a very early age under his mother’s guidance.  His formal training was under Sri Sundareshwara Bhagavathar.  He had an immense passion for musical instruments that made him to practice on number of instruments.  A post graduate in music from Calicut University, Sreeram is known as a Play back singer and as a flutist.  He also plays a number of other instruments.  This multi-talented musician entered in the film industry as a flutist and sang for music Directors like  Keeravani and A. R. Rahman.  He has composed music for two Malayalam films and has many music albums to his credit.

Accompanists are Vayala Rajendran from Thrissur played Violin, whereas K. S. Mahesh Kumar from Thrissur played Mridangam and Khanjira by R. Karthik from Bengaluru.

Sri Talachangadu T. M. Ramanathan performed Thavil Solo. Kalyanapuram G. Srinivasan performed Nadaswaram and D. Amudhan from Trichy played Talam as an accompanists. He performed Hemavati Raga.  T. M. Ramnathan was trained rigorously for 12 years by ‘Kalaimamani”Thiruvizhanthoor A. K. Venugopal Pillai.  The ‘Tavil’  is powerful rhythm instruments of south and is traditionally used for accompanying the  ‘Nagaswaram’at temple festivals in Southern India. Sri Ramanathan has accompanied many veterans and also performed in many prestigious concerts in the country as well as abroad.  His performances have been widely acclaimed by music critics.  Thalachangadu T. M. Ramanathan is recipient of several awards including ‘Kalaimamani’from Tamilnadu Government.

From 7.30pm onwards Mandolin Duet by U. P. Raju and U Nagamani from Chennai.  U.P. Raju underwent seven years of rigorous training under ‘Gurukulavaasam’ from R. Subbaraju, a vocalist, who introduced Mandolin to the field of classical Carnatic music.  Subbaraju used to sing and explain the nuances of ‘Gamakas’ which Raju would then adopt and reproduce in his own style on the Mandolin.

Nagamani, at the age of seven, was clutching a mandolin using her tender fingers to learn the intricacies of this stringed instrument and by lnine years of age,  began performing as a seasoned soloist becoming the first female mandolin artiste playing Carnatic classical music.  She learnt mandolin under the guidance of her husband U.P. Raju.  They started Hamsadwani Raga, Aditala of Muthuswamy Dixit’s Lyrics and continued Madhavarali Raga, Nirosh raga and ends with Sindhu Bhairavi Raga, Adi Tala of Purandardasar Lyrics.

Raju with his wife Nagamani, forms a formidable Mandolin Duet in Carnatic Music and they have extensively performed around the globe achieving name and fame.  They also train many students in the art of playing Mandolin in their school for learning  Carnatic music.  They have both won many awards and prizes from various exteemed Organisations.  Accompanists Violin by Paruru M. A. Sundaresan from Chennai, Thavil by Tiruvallikeni K. Sekar from Chennai, Ghatam by Coimbatore G. Suresh from Kozhikode Khanjira by Papanasam S. Sethuramn from Chennai.

Carnatic Classical Vocal by Palakkad Sriram and Thavil Solo by Thalachangadu T. M. Ramanathan will be broadcast all over India by all Stations on November 8th, 2015  at 9.30pm to 11.00pm.  Mandolin Duet will be broadcast on 19.11.2015, Thursday from 10pm to 11pm.  More than 500 audiences are sitting with pin-drop silence during entire concert. Rajya Sabha MP Oscar Fernandes, Karnataka Bank Managing Director and Chairman P. Jayaram Bhat and other dignitaries were present.   All music lovers are enjoyed and appreciated this music concert.