Mangalore : Akashvani Sangeetha Sammelana-2013 was organised by All India Radio, Mangalore and presented two concerts at Town Hall, Mangalore, on the evening of Saturday, 28th Sept. 2013.

In the first concert Vidhushi Kolkatta Padmavathi Saranathan presented Carnatic Classical vocal. Violin support was given by S. Ishwara Varma and Kolkatta S. Aravind supported in Mrudangam. Ghatam support was given by N.H.P. Rajarajan, Thiruvananthpuram. She starts with chakravaka raga, Tyagaraja lyric, rupak tala, then presented Vandanadharini raga, Adi tala, G.S Balasubramanyam Lyric and ends with Chandrakoumsa raga, Purandaradasara lyric –‘kandena govindana’. She bagged CCRT scholarship by the Govt. of India at the age of seventeeth and at present “A” Grade artist in All India Radio. All the programmes was appreciated by audience.

In the second concert Vidushi Kala Ramanath of Mumbai presented Hindustani violin and Vishwanath Nakod supported in Tabla. She presented raga Bihaag in the beginning and ends with Raaga Bharavi. With the mixure of traditional violin recital with old and new artist and she invinted Jhaaz, Famenko, African music etc., Mounesh Kumar Chavani supported shruti for both the above programme who is the staff artist of Akashvani Mangalore.

In the beginning Dr. Vasanthkumar Perla, Head of Programme and Asstt. Director welcomed the gathering and gave an introduction to the sangeetha sammelana. Sri Muddu Moodubelle compered the programme.

A large number of music lovers witnessed the programme. The programme will be aired by all Akashvani kendras on December 6th and 29th 2013 from 10pm to 11pm respectively.