Date:15/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/15/stories/2007121553680300.htm

Other States - Orissa

A treat for music lovers

Staff Reporter

BERHAMPUR: The five-day annual music and dance festival of Sri Thyagaraja Bhakta Samithi is continuing since Wednesday. It will continue till Sunday.

The music festival is being held since 1947. Eminent Carnatic vocal and instrumental artistes from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are enthralling the audience with their performances every evening at the venue of the music festival at Arya Vaishya Kalyan Mandapam.

On Thursday, Ampolu Muralikrishna of Vijayawada performed on the violin. He was accompanied by K. Sadguru Charan on mridangam and S. Hanumanth Rao on ghatam. Mr. Muralikrishna’s name finds a mention in the Limca Book of Records as the longest non-stop performer of Carnatic vocal music.

On Friday, Uma Shankar of Chennai enthralled the audience with her vocal performace.