Chennai Music Festival
Posted by Dylan on July 9, 2009When looking for the perfect luxury hotel, Chennai, India would be a great place to begin. Southern India is an excellent place to spend a vacation, with a beautiful location on the Bay of Bengal, and a large and lively urban population. It hosts a wonderful music festival, and has an extremely vibrant theatre scene. It is also the home of Kollywood, India’s Tamil film capital, where big budget blockbusters as well as smaller features, are made. There is also a thriving industrial base, and its rich and complicated history make it a wonderful place to spend time. The hotels are splendidly designed, with an eye toward international style, and guests can expect to experience a rejuvenation of the body and mind.
The Chennai Music Festival is, of course, one of the most exciting events the city offers. Recently the government has teamed with the state tourism department and the music sabhas to attract more international guests. It certainly is one of the most amazing festivals in performing arts in the world, where the city hosts many music and dance artists who perform for the month of December. Performances are held in traditional music and dance venues, as well as sacred spaces, and also in makeshift performance venues. It began in 1927 to honor the anniversary of the Madras Musical Academy, and has been held every December since then. The entire city takes part, and art is in the air.
The festival is, by most standards for performance extravaganzas, very old. But its roots go much further back than 1927. Carnatic music, that is, the traditional music of South India, has always been played at this time in South India as a form of spiritual devotion. The festival, as it exists today, is a much broader entity, and includes many different dance, music, and dramatic forms. There are also different levels of experience among the performers, which make it very eclectic, and provides an excellent learning experience for the younger artists. Today it attracts a wide variety of performers, such as Sriram Krishnan, who plays in the traditional Carnatic style. This extremely important festival is an amazing opportunity to see the variety of old and new performance work, and to take part in an art event that envelopes an entire city.
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