Mangalore, December 28: Alva's Virasat, a four-day national cultural festival featuring classical music concerts, classical and folk dances will begin at Shobhavana, Moodbidri from January 10.
Addressing a press meet Dr Mohan Alva, Chairman of Alva's Education Foundation who is hosting this cultural extravaganza, said that dances by Malaysian and Odisha troupes, special fusion concerts of Indian and Western classical music will be the highlights this year.
Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari D Veerendra Heggade will inaugurate the programme while Nitte Education Trust Chairman N Vinay Hegde will preside.
A musical concert 'Raaga lahari' will be held on the day of inauguration. Renowned musician M Balamuralikrishna will render Carnatic vocal music accompanied by Pandit Ronu Majumdar on flute, Abhijith Banerjee on tabla, Vidwan Ghatam Karthik on ghatam.
Grammy Award winner Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhat on 'Mohan Veena,' Ustad Anwar Khan will present Rajasthani folk music along with Pandit Pratviraj Misra on tabla and Pandit Deepak on Violin.
On second day, will have fusion of east-west melodies where Dr Mysore Manjunath (Violin), Vakla Zimpell from Poland (Saxophone), Pandit Rajesh Vaidhya (Veena), Ustad Fazal Qureshi (Tabla), Vidwan Arjun Kumar (Mridangam) and Vidwan Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam) will perform.
On the same day, as many as 60 artistes from Konark Natya Mantap will present various forms of classical and folk dances of Odhisha including Odissi, 'Shanka dwani nrithya,'and Sambalpuri dance at 8.10 p.m.
Dr Raja and Dr Radha Reddy and team from Hyderabad will perform Koochipudi on January 12. This will be followed by 'Diya dance,' 'Gotipua' and 'Chao' dance by 60 artistes of Konark Natya Mantap.
On the last day, there will be musical night which will be attended by Kannada playback singers Vijayaprakash and M D Pallavi.
Dua Space Dance Theatre of Malaysia will perform a fusion of traditional and modern dance of Malaysia.
Virasat Award
This year, danseuser Dr Padma Subrahmanyam will be conferred with the prestigious Alva's Virasat Award.
Varna Virasat
Dr Alva said that Varna Virasat will be held as a prelude to Alva's Virasat from January 4 to 13, at Shobhavana from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Artists from Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhyapradesh, Punjab will be participating.
The Alva's Varna Virasat Award will be conferred on senior artist from Mumbai Devdas R Shetty, at the valedictory of the camp, on January 13.
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