Kuthira Malika Swathi Sangeetholsavam

See also: Kuthiramalika

Swathi Sangeethotsavam is a 7-day music festival in the month of Dhanu, from 06 to 12 January every year at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India within the Fort Palace Complex adjoining the Sreepadmanabhaswami Temple. This festival is held in the majestic Kuthiramalika palace built by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal himself. Exclusively, compositions of Maharaja Swathi Tirunal Rama Varma are rendered at the festival. This festival is of recent orgin, but the settings of the Kuthiramalika palace has made it one of the very special festivals, and is perhaps next only to Navarathri concerts, also held in the nearby mandapam complex. Concerts start at 6 pm (the concerts tend to last generally from 150 to 200 minutes, although no time limit is given to the artists). Concerts are open to all lovers of music and are organised by H.H.Sir Rama Varma Maharaja of Travancore Trust. The entrance to Kuthiramalika is via Bhajanappura Palace, Thekketheruvu. Mail contact : Prince Aswathi Tirunal Rama Varma c/o The Organising Committee, Swathi Sangeethotsavam, Kaudiar Palace, Thiruvananthapuram – 695 003 Kerala State, INDIA. Read about a review of the 2003

Kuthiramalika festival concerts, available under News-Views-Reviews of carnatica.net
(http://carnatica.net/nvr/nvr-main.htm)

Here is the schedule for 2004 Jan 06 ~ 12 Swathi Sangeethotsavam at Kuthiramalika:

Some of the artistes who have performed at this venue (listed at random, neither exhaustively, nor in chronological or alphabetical order, nor in seniority of age or grade) in the past eleven years include :

Bismillah Khan – Hariprasad Chaurasia – Sivakumar Sarma – Viswamohan Bhat –
N Rajam & Sangeetha Shankar -Amjad Ali Khan- Jasraj – Ghulam Mustafa Khan – Kaushiky Chakraborty – Kishen Maharaj – Anindo Chakravarthy – Veena K.S.narayanaswamy – D.K.Pattammal – Semmangudi Srinivasier -T.N.Krishnan – M.S.Goplalakrishnan & M.Narmada – T.K.Govinda Rao -V.V.Subrahmanyam – T.V.Gopalakrishnan -T.V.Sankaranarayanan – Umayalpuram Sivaraman – G.Harisankar – Ravikiran & P Ganesh – Guruvayur Dorai – V.Kamalakar Rao – Karaikudi Mani – Srimushanam Raja Rao – K.V.Narayanaswamy – Ganesh & Kumaresh -Trichur V ramachandran -Tiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam – Mannargudi Eswaran – Palghat Reghu – V.Suresh – T.V.Vasan – Sanjay Subrahmanyan – Ranjani & Gayathri – Bombay Jaishree Ramanath – Balu Raghuraman -Trichy Sankaran – Attukal Balasubramoniam – Adichanallur Anil Kumar – B. Harikumar -R Ananthakrishnan – Delhi Sunder Rajan – Mysore Nagaraj & Manjunath – T.M.Krishna – Neyveli Santhanagopalan – N.Ramani – Kadri Gopalnath – M.S.Anantaraman – M.A.Sundaresan – M.A.Krshnaswamy – Trichur V Ramachandran – S Varadarajan – T.K.V.Ramanujacharlu – Nagai Murali – T.H.Vinayakram – Tripunithura Radhakrishnan – R. Hemalatha – Mavelikara Velukutty Nair – Dr Jyotsna – etc. etc. etc. apart from Ajoy Chakrabarty (4th year in a row) Dr. Balamuralikrishna and Aswathi Tirunal Rama Varma