Thursday, December 20, 2007

Chennai’s December, Its all about Kutcharis, kancheevarms & Kapi


Come December its Music season in Chennai which attracts people from around world for wonderful Carnatic music. This festival is being performed close to around 60 years.
During this season artist will perform around 40 kutcharies in 15 days across couple of dozen sabhs in Chennai. Its like 20 : 20 cricket,Action packed and well organized by respective sabhs.

We can see the colourful exhibitions of different pattu sarres with sparkling diamonds and gold worn by the musicians as well as the listeners. The other main attractions are the food joints in the sabhs. We have Arusuvai, Gnanambikas and padmanabanhs with variety of item and full course meals are the flavors added to the music season.

The season start from second half of December and ends on 1st of January. The planning for the season usually begins in June itself as the artist , dates and timing needs to finalized .The programme in all the sabhs starts @ 7.am in morning to 9.pm in the evening. Who’s who of Chennai will be in sabhs to enjoy the season last year even Pepsico chief India Nooyi was there for Aruna sairam concert in Music academy.

For last fifteen years iam(along with my friends) regular to all the sabhs to have wonderful food almost every day. This years iam too late to start the season, today iam planned to vist couple of them wait for more in this series……

3 comments:

Dhivya Dharsanam said...

As I read about the full course meals in your blog... my mouth starts watering...
Lets catch up in one of theose sabha canteens soon...

partha said...

why not today?

partha said...

why not today?