The 74th annual celebrations and music and arts festival – 2026 at Sri Sathguru Sangeetha Samajam will commence from January 3, 2026 to January 12 at Lakshmi Sundaram Hall.
The 10-day celebrations will begin with a vocal concert on January 3 by Abishek Raghuram, followed by Sandeep Narayan’s vocal on January 4.
On January 5, vocalist Vidhya Kalyanaraman would present a concert and Ramnath Bhagavath’s vocal programme would be held on January 6.
On January 7, Subashree Thanikachalam and team would stage devotion in film music programme and Amrutha Venkatesh’s vocal concert would be held on January 8. On January 9, Ramakrishnan Murthy’s vocal concert would be staged.
A veena concert would be performed by Jayanthi Kumaresh on January 10 followed by a vocal concert by Sikkil Gurucharan on January 11 and on the concluding day (January 12), with Vignesh Eswar’s concert, the festival ends.
Award
The Sathguru Sangeetha Samajam would confer the ‘Madhurakala Praveena’ title on Veena Vidhushi Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh on January 10. The award would be presented by Additional Solicitor General of India N. Venkataraman in the presence of Samajam President Shobhana Ramachandhran. Also, ‘Madhurakala Mani’ would be conferred on Mrudangam vidwan Valangaiman K. Thiagarajan and cash award would be given to Thavil Vidwan V. Chellappa.
179th Thiagaraja Aradhanai
The Samajam would celebrate the 179th Sri Thiagaraja Aradhanai Uthsavam on January 7 from 7 a.m. to 12 noon at Lakshmi Sundaram Hall. Beginning with Uncha vruthi by Kadayanallur Sri Prakash Bhagavathar at 7 a.m., it would be followed by Nagaswara mangala isai by Needamangalam N.S. Saminathan at 9 a.m.
From 10 a.m., vidwans would sing the pancharatna keerthanas, divya namasankeerthan at 11.30 a.m. and deeparathanai at 12 noon.
Published – December 27, 2025 06:46 pm IST
