IIT Madras Saarang 2025: Amit Trivedi, Ritviz and global music bands to perform in Chennai
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IIT Madras Saarang 2025: Amit Trivedi, Ritviz and global music bands to perform in Chennai

The Hindu  

The quintessential Chennai college experience is incomplete without days spent frolicking at Saarang, IIT Madras’s long-hailed cultural festival. Fifty years since, the festival, replete with music concerts, lecture series, workshops, carnival rides, and active game corners, is synonymous with Chennai’s ever-evolving cultural ecosystem. Possibly the biggest night of the festival is the Pop Night -- “the night that Chennai waits for” -- on Day 5 headlined by popular playback singer and music director Amit Trivedi. We are expecting a footfall of 80,000 this year.” Prof Sushanta Panigrahi, Faculty Advisor, IIT Madras considers the festival testament to the enduring legacy of IIT Madras’ cultural spirit.

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IIT-M’s Saarang to feature Indian folk art, cinema-themed events
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19 hours, 37 minutes ago

IIT-M’s Saarang to feature Indian folk art, cinema-themed events

The Hindu  

The 51st edition of Saarang 2025, the annual cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, will begin on Friday. Three more events have been added for this year,” said Aaromal Kesav, IIT-M’s cultural secretary. In the international music festival, a Japanese orchestra, an Italian progressive metal band, and a Polish accordionist, among others will host performances from January …

IIT Madras to host Saarang 2025: A cultural extravaganza from January 9-13
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IIT Madras to host Saarang 2025: A cultural extravaganza from January 9-13

India Today  

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras is set to host the 51st edition of Saarang, one of India's largest student-run annual cultural festivals, from January 9 to 13, 2025. At a press conference held today on the IIT Madras campus, Professor V Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras, expressed his pride in the festival’s unique role in fostering student creativity. SAARANG …

The Hindu Made of Chennai food and music festival attracts a footfall of over 30,000
3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Hindu Made of Chennai food and music festival attracts a footfall of over 30,000

The Hindu  

Capturing a city and its effervescent energy in the span of a weekend is no mean feat. The Hindu’s Made of Chennai Food and Music Festival was a clear window into how Chennai celebrates its many facets with wild abandon. The Food and Music Festival held in Island Grounds was an ode to the city’s musical landscape and culinary diversity …

Enjoy music Made of Chennai at The Hindu festival on September 14 and 15
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Enjoy music Made of Chennai at The Hindu festival on September 14 and 15

The Hindu  

Festivals, almost by definition, ought to be egalitarian and collaborative. The Hindu’s upcoming 10-act musical event aspires to achieve exactly this by bringing musicians of diverse genres on a single platform The two-day celebration will explore Chennai’s music ecosystem, which is known for its proclivity to tradition, but is evolving to embrace new settings and sounds. Says Badhri Narayanan Seshadri …

All the city is a stage
6 months, 1 week ago

All the city is a stage

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Visualise yourself at Chennai Central Station, and suddenly, you witness a mesmerising Bharatanatyam performance unfolding before your eyes. This is the spirit of Mixtura Vizha, an annual cultural festival organised by SNS Arts Development Consultancy, that transforms everyday public spaces in Chennai into vibrant stages for diverse performances. “We wanted to revive Chennai’s public spaces by bringing in live …

Made of Chennai | Celebrate Madras through rare photos, music, culture and food
1 year, 4 months ago

Made of Chennai | Celebrate Madras through rare photos, music, culture and food

The Hindu  

The Hindu Archival Exhibit The year is 1949. The Hindu Festival of Chennai is held in partnership with Greater Chennai Corporation Radio partner: Radio city. In this festival held in partnership with CMRL, On the Streets of Chennai and Radio City, bands like Mayavisai, Martin & Team, Gurupathi & Gang, The Unusuals, Kooda Senthu Kathu, raids, Consonance and Maple Diaries. …

‘Chennai is blessed with diverse music’
1 year, 4 months ago

‘Chennai is blessed with diverse music’

The Hindu  

Your fondest memory of Chennai? I think it was around 1977 and I used to take multiple buses from R.A. Puram to get to school inside IIT-Madras. In R.A. Puram where I lived or Mylapore, there’s Carnatic music, north Madras has gaana, Kodambakkam has a whole bunch of musicians from all over India coming down for film music, and old …

5th Inter-IIT Cultural Meet begins at IIT Madras
2 years ago

5th Inter-IIT Cultural Meet begins at IIT Madras

Hindustan Times  

Indian Institute of Technology Madras is hosting the fifth Inter-IIT Cultural meet in which around 3,200 students from 23 IITs are participating in various events. 5th Inter-IIT Cultural Meet begins at IIT Madras The annual cultural meet started today, January 9 and will continue till January 11. Chief Guest Shri L. Subramaniam, a renowned violinist, composer, and conductor and a …

Chennai stays pitch-perfect
2 years, 11 months ago

Chennai stays pitch-perfect

The Hindu  

After two years of Covid-induced interruption when the Chennai music season briefly returned to live concerts at the end of 2021, what was on display was striking resilience and the city’s age-old commitment to its favourite art — from musicians, the sabhas, and the music lovers. The break “gave me time to introspect, learn, revise, listen and practice,” says Amrita …

Chennai joins music festivals around the world at Culturas 360
3 years, 1 month ago

Chennai joins music festivals around the world at Culturas 360

The Hindu  

When Namgar Lhasaranova sings the song of her people, her voice carries. The festival is a collaboration between 14 music festivals located in different parts of the world, in an attempt to give musicians an online platform in the wake of the pandemic. Participating festivals include India’s IndiEarth Xchange, Mozambique Music Meeting, Cuba’s Havana International Jazz Festival and USA’s Concert …

Chennai’s Carnatic musicians plan a live digital concert
4 years, 9 months ago

Chennai’s Carnatic musicians plan a live digital concert

The Hindu  

Of course, balcony antakshari is fun. In Chennai, Carnatic musicians TM Krishna, Akkarai Subhalakshmi, B Sivaraman and N Guruprasad are now putting together the ‘Home and the World’, a digital Carnatic live concert. “A lot of artistes, from different fields, have had all performances cancelled,” says Krishna, adding, “Just in the Carnatic world, it has already led to the cancellation …

performing arts festival in Chennai
4 years, 11 months ago

performing arts festival in Chennai

The Hindu  

Picture this: an intimate concert entertaining a small group of rasika s in the pristine patio of a 250-year-old Dutch heritage structure: Luz House in Mylapore. Organised by Mumbai-based First Edition Arts, it will feature over 50 musicians, speakers and performers from all over India, led by a strong curatorial team of artistes. Devina Dutt of First Edition Arts, also …

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