The Ramanavami music season in Bangalore started yesterday. Main concert schedules are here below. Sadly, this year the schedule at Vani Kala Kendra Basaveshwaranagar is much truncated. There is usually a rich array of concerts every year in a cosy setting there. Hopefully, its just a once off and it will be back to full glory next year.
Newcomers to Bangalore - See bottom of the post for directions to the three main Sabhas
Main Concerts for the 2025 Season
31 Mar (Monday)
6.30 PM : Ramakrishnan Murthy – Vittal Rangan – Vijay Natesan – Srinidhi Kaundinya @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
01 Apr (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : Prince Rama Varma & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
02 Apr (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : “Sri Rama Nithyotsava -Rudrapatnam N Thyagarajan & group @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
03 Apr (Thursday)
6.30 PM : TNS Krishna & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
04 Apr (Friday)
6.30 PM : Mysore Nagaraj/Mysore Manjunath & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
05 Apr (Saturday)
6.30 PM : “Ramayane Gitayanam” TS Sathyavathi & Group @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
06 Apr (Sunday)
6.45 PM : Sarvam Ramayanam – Three generations of Malladi Family @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Palanivel & Prabhavati Palanivel (Nadaswaram) – BR Venkatesh – B Mani @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Sandeep Narayan – HN Bhaskar – KV Prasad – Guruprasanna @ Fort High School Grounds
07 Apr (Monday)
6.30 PM : Yoga Kirtana & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : KS Vishnudev – Nishanth Chandran - Arjun Kumar – Ranganatha Chakravarthy @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : U Rajesh / Jayateerth Mevundi (Jugalbandhi) -Bangalore Praveen – Vyasmurthy Katti – B Rajasekhar – Gurumurthy Vaidya @ Fort High School Grounds
08 Apr (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : LV Mukund (Flute) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Bangalore Brothers – Vaibhav Ramani - Arjun Kumar – Ranganatha Chakravarthy @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Aishwarya & Saundarya – Mathur Srinidhi – HS Sudhindra – Sukanya Ramgopal @ Fort High School Grounds
09 Apr (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : KS Vishnudev & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Vittal Rangan & Venkatasundaram – Anirudh Bhat - Pranav Dhat @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Sriranjani Santhanagopalan – Charulatha Ramanujam – NC Bharadwaj – Sunaad Anoor @ Fort High School Grounds
10 Apr (Thursday)
6.30 PM : Lavanya Krishnamurthi & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Baby Sreeram & Bharat Narayan – Charulatha Ramanujam - Tumkur Ravishankar – Sharath Kaushik @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Kumaresh & Jayanthi Kumaresh – Vijay Natesan – Giridhar Udupa @ Fort High School Grounds
11 Apr (Friday)
6.30 PM : Abhishek Raghuram & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Vaikunta Loka , Discourse by Dushyanth Sridhar @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Ramakrishnan Murthy – Nishanth Chandran – NC Bharadwaj - Guruprasanna @ Fort High School Grounds
12 Apr (Saturday)
4.45 PM : Jyotsna Srikanth & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
7.00 PM : Bharatanatyam by Natyasree School of Dance @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : JA Jayant – Vaibhav Ramani - Aravind Ranganathan – Sunaad Anoor @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Trichur Brothers – Sunil Kumar – Trichur Mohan – Kovai Suresh @ Fort High School Grounds
13 Apr (Sunday)
4.45 PM : Shubha Santosh , Vani Manjunath, Prema Vivek (Veena, Venu, Violin) & Party @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
7.15 PM : “Amma Retire Agthale” Kannada Drama by Kala Gangothri @ Vani Kala Kendra Basaveswaranagar
6.30 PM : Trichur Brothers & Party @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Ranjani & Gayathri – Vittal Rangan – Manoj Siva – S Krishna @ Fort High School Grounds
14 Apr (Monday)
6.30 PM : HM Smitha & Sindhu Suchethan – Mathur Srinidhi – Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma – Bhagyalakshmi Krishna @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Sudha Ragunathan – Embar S Kannan– Neyveli Skandasubramaniam – R Raman @ Fort High School Grounds
15 Apr (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : Prathima Athreya (Hindustani Vocal) – Bharat Hegde– Karthik Krishna @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : “Sakala Greeha Bala Neene” - Harikatha by Dushyanth Sridhar @ Fort High School Grounds
16 Apr (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : Suma Sudheendra – Mathur Srinidhi – Cheluvaraju– Narayanamurthy @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Sivasri Skandaprasad – Rangapriya Sankaranarayanan – Adamya Ramanand – Bharadwaj Sathavalli @ Fort High School Grounds
17 Apr (Thursday)
6.30 PM : Hamsini Nagendra- Nalina Mohan - Cheluvaraju – ASN Swamy @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Pravin Godkhindi & Shadaj Godkhindi (Hindustani Flute) – Ishaan Ghosh @ Fort High School Grounds
18 Apr (Friday)
6.30 PM : Ashwath Narayanan – Sai Rakshith – Sumesh Narayan – Sunaad Anoor @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Malladi Brothers – Nishanth Chandran – Tumkur Ravishankar – Guruprasanna @ Fort High School Grounds
19 Apr (Saturday)
6.30 PM : Palghat Ramprasad – Mathur Srinidhi – Arjun Kumar @ Seshadripuram College
5.15 PM : Vishwamohan Bhatt, Salil Bhat, Mysore Manjunath , Sumanth Manjunath (Jugalbandhi) – Yella Venkateshwar Rao – Himanshu Mahanth @ Fort High School Grounds
20 Apr (Sunday)
6.30 PM : Sriranjani Santhanagopalan – Charulatha Ramanujam – NC Bharadwaj – GS Ramanujam @ Seshadripuram College
5.15 PM : Abhishek Raghuram – HN Bhaskar – Arjun Kumar – Krishna Kumar @ Fort High School Grounds
21 Apr (Monday)
6.00 PM : Sivasri Skandaprasad – Kalpana Kishore – Adamya Ramanand @ Seshadripuram College
5.00 PM : Shashikala Dhani & Party (Hindustani Jalatarang) @ Fort High School Grounds
7.30 PM : Spoorthi Rao - Adithi Krishna Prakash – Anuradha Bhat – Sukanya Ramgopal @ Fort High School Grounds
22 Apr (Tuesday)
6.30 PM : Kalavathi Avadoot – BK Raghu – HS Sudheendra – Shamith Gowda @ Seshadripuram College
7.30 PM : Bangalore Brothers – Mathur Srinidhi – Umayalpuram Sivaraman – Ranganatha Chakravarthy @ Fort High School Grounds
23 Apr (Wednesday)
6.00 PM : Manasi Prasad – Adithi Krishnaprakash – Cheluvaraju – Bharadwaj Sathavalli @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Vidhyabhushana – Pradesh Achar – Bangalore Praveen – BR Ravikumar @ Fort High School Grounds
24 Apr (Thursday)
6.30 PM : Spoorthi Rao - Vaibhav Ramani – Anoor Vinod Shyam @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Bhargavi Venkatram – HK Venkatram – J Vaidyanathan – SN Narayana Murthy @ Fort High School Grounds
25 Apr (Friday)
6.30 PM : Dileep Simha – Janardhan – GS Nagaraj – Srinidhi Koundinya @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Venkatesh Kumar (Hindustani)– Keshava Joshi – Vyasa Murthy Katti @ Fort High School Grounds
26 Apr (Saturday)
6.00 PM : Abhishek Raghuram – HM Smitha – Arjun Kumar - Guruprasanna @ Seshadripuram College
7.30 PM : Medha Vidyabhushana – Pradesh Achar – Nagendra Prasad – Raghunandan @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Niladri Kumar Sitar & Party (Hindustani) @ Fort High School Grounds
27 April (Sunday)
6.30 PM : Sukanya Ramgopal & Party – Stree TaalTarang @ Seshadripuram College
6.30 PM : Ustad Shahid Parvez & Party (Hindustani) @ Fort High School Grounds
28 April (Monday)
6.30 PM : Bhargavi Venkatram – Sindhu Suchetan - Anirudh Bhat – Karthik @ Seshadripuram College
4.30 PM : Jyotsna Srikanth – NC Bharadwaj – ASN Swami @ Fort High School Grounds
6.45 PM : Balu Masti – Adithi Krishna Prakash – BC Manjunath – Sukanya Ramgopal @ Fort High School Grounds
29 April (Tuesday)
7.30 PM : Suma Sudheendra – Mysore Srikanth – HS Sudhindra– BS Raghunandan @ Fort High School Grounds
30 April (Wednesday)
6.30 PM : Saketaraman – Mysore Karthik – NC Bharadwaj – Bharadwaj Sathavalli @ Fort High School Grounds
01 May (Thursday)
6.45 PM : Mysore Nagaraj & Mysore Manjunath – Sai Giridhar – Ishaan Ghosh @ Fort High School Grounds
02 May (Friday)
6.00 PM : Vishaka Hari & Party @ Fort High School Grounds
Guidance for newcomers to Bangalore
Shree Ramaseva Mandali is the grand old Sabha in Bangalore. This is the 87th Ramanavami music festival and is conducted in a huge pandal at the Fort High School Grounds in Chamarajpet. Google Maps location is here
Sree Seshadripuram Ramaseva Samithi conducts the Ramanavami Music Festival at the Seshadripuram College Quadrangle. This is the 77th edition of the annual festival. Google Maps Location is here
Vani Kala Kendra conducts the concerts at the Sri Vani Education Centre School at Basaveshwaranagar. Google Maps location is here
Only the Fort High School concerts are ticketed. Both Season Tickets and Daily Tickets are available at the venue. Advance booking is not really required.
Unlike Chennai there are no Sabha canteens. There is a make shift facility at Fort High School, but any rasika used to Chennai's canteen extravaganza will be sorely disappointed.
Concerts do not start and end on time. Cringeworthy vote of thanks in the middle of the concert is sadly the norm.
Parking is a problem in all three locations although there is some parking which gets full at Fort High School.