
Sree Ramaseva Mandali is an 80 years old cultural organisation known for organising Indian Classical Music Festivals as part of its
Rama Navami
Rama Navami () is a Hindu festival that celebrates the birthday of Rama, the seventh avatar of the deity Vishnu. people from different parts of Jharkhand attended the world famous international Hazaribagh procession organized in the city every ...
celebrations at
Chamrajpet
Chamrajpete is a locality in the central part of the city of Bengaluru. It is bordered by Basavanagudi, Banashankari, Chickpet and Majestic.
Chamrajpete is one of the oldest areas in Bengaluru, 2.9 km. from Bangalore City Railway Statio ...
,
Bangalore
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. The organisation was founded in the year 1939 by Sri
S.V.Narayanaswamy Rao
Shivarpatna Vasudev Rao Narayanaswamy Rao (1924–2000), popularly known as S.V.Narayanaswamy Rao, is the founder of Sree Ramaseva Mandali.
S.V.Narayanaswamy Rao founded Sree Ramaseva Mandali at the age of 14 and continued to guide it till he died ...
at the age of 14.

Sree Ramaseva Mandali has hosted who's who of Indian classical music. Bharata Rathna M S Subbalakshmi has performed in the Ramanavami for a record 32 times. K.J. Yesudas has been performing for the past 5 decades. Some of the other veteran artistes who have performed include Chembai Vaidyanatha Bagavatar,
Bismillah Khan
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,
Bade Gulam Ali Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, L.Subramanaiam, M. Balamuralikrishna, M Vasanthakumari, D.K.Pattamal, Arraikudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Emani Shanker Shastri,
Sudha Raghunathan
Sudha Ragunathan is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer and composer. She was conferred the Kalaimamani award by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1994, Padma Shri (2004) and Padma Bhushan (2015) by the Government of India, and Sangeetha Kalanidh ...
, Ranjani Gayatri, and
Bombay Jayashree
"Bombay" Jayashri Ramnath is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer, and musician. She has sung in multiple languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi movies. Born into a family of musicians, Jayashri represents the fourth ge ...
.
File:Founder of Sree Ramaseva Mandali.jpg, S.V.N RAO
Over 2 - 3 lakhs audience witness this 31 days long music festival. 3 Presidents of India, 4 Vice Presidents of India and all most all the Governors and Chief Ministers of Karnataka State have attended this popular festival, which is sometimes referred as tomorrowland of Indian classical Music.
Bharata Rathna Sri Rajagopalachari referred the organisation as the Temple of Music.
The festivities of the Mandali are held at a makeshift auditorium at the century old, Old Fort High School Gounds Chamarajapet. The Mandali has also adopted the historic Old Fort High School whose alumni include stalwarts like N Lakshman Rau, Kengal Hanumanthaiah to name a few.
Sree Ramaseva Mandali, Ramanavami Celebrations Trust is a recognised and registered Cultural Trust with FCRA license from the Government of India. Sri S V Narayanaswamy Rao who led the organisation for 6 decades from the day of its birth died on 5 January 2000 and since then
S. N. Varadaraj
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S may also refer to:
History
* an Anglo-Saxon charter's number in Peter Sawyer's, catalogue Language and linguistics
* Long s (ſ), a form of the lower-case letter s formerly used where " ...
his son is leading the organisation. Dr.C.S.Kedar I.A.S (Retd) happens to be the Chief Mentor and
Sudha Murty
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Chairperson of
Infosys Foundation
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happens to be the Chief Patron of the organisation.
References
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External links
* http://www.ramanavami.org
* http://www.svnrao.org
Music festival organizations
Music organisations based in India
1939 establishments in India