Annual music festival paying homage to great carnatic today

Indian Cultural Centre, High Commission of India, Colombo will be organising Sri Thyagaraja Aaradhana, an annual music festival paying homage to the great carnatic music composer St. Thyagaraja Swamy on Friday 17 February at 5:30 p.m. at Saraswathie Hall, No 75, Lorenz Road Colombo 04.

Musicians, vocalists as well as instrumentalists and percussionists from all over Sri Lanka including University of Jaffna, Eastern University of Batticaloa, University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Highlands College, Hatton, students of Indian Cultural Centre will come together and render Pancharatna Keerthanas (five songs) of Thyagaraja on this occasion.

The choral rendition of the five songs is an integral feature of the Aaradhana. St. Thyagaraia Swamy, one among the Trinity of Carnatic Music, composed nearly 700 compositions. All carnatic musicians consider Thyagaraia as their inspiration, source and touchstone of musical creativity.