6^th Dec 1998

Lighting of Kuthuvilakku by Anita Ratnam, Inauguration by Dr.S.V.Narasimhan and Presided by Obul Reddy. First Mudhra Award of Excellence was presented to Sri.K.S.Mahadevan, Senior music Critic.(insituted by Obul Reddy)

Geetha Krishnamurthy (Veena) - V.L.Sudharshan(Violin)- Vijayendran(Mrudangam) & A.S.Shankar(Ghatam)

7^th Dec 1998

S.Sowmya(Vocal) - M.Narmada(Violin) - J.Vaidyanathan (Mrudangam) - Papanasam Sethuraman (Ghatam)

8^th Dec 1998

Vijay Siva (Vocal) - R.K.Sriramkumar(violin)-Mannargudi A.Easwaran(Mrudangam)-B.S.Purushotham(Kanjira)

9^th Dec 1998     

Priya Sisters(Vocal) - Vittal Ramamurthy(Violin)-J.Vaidyanatha(Mrudangam)-Madipakkam Murali(Ghatam)

10^{t h} Dec 1998

Sanjay Subramaniam(Vocal)- H.K.Venkatram(Violin)-Palghat Raghu(Mrudangam)- T.V.Vasam(Ghatam)

11^th Dec 1998  

T.V.Sankaranarayanan(Vocal) - Nagai Muralidharan(Violin)-Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam(Mrudangam) - Mayavaram Somu(Kanjira)

12^th Dec 1998   

One day seminar on "Tradition and Innovation in Music":

Participants - SriramParasuram,Dr.Sundar,S.Venkatraman,T.R.Subramanyam, N.V.Subramaniam & Ganesh. Seminar co-ordinator : Naresh Purushotham

Panel discussion participants

Tradition and Innovation in Instruments - Kumaresh & B.Kannan
 
Types of performances - L.Krishnan & Venkatraman
 
Concert format  - Calcutta Krishnamurthy & Pattabhiraman
 
Sessions on Computer & Carnatic Music - K.Baskaran 
 
CD Rom & Carnatic Music  - Sowmya

13^th Dec 1998

Morning : Carnatic - Hindustani Jugalbandi
O.S.Thiagaran(Carnatic)  & Sriram Parasuram (Hindustani) - G.Chandramouli(Violin)-K.V.Prasad(Mrudangam) - Udayaraj Karpur(Tabla)- Fayyaz Khan(Sarangi)

Evening: Radha Bhaskar(Vocal)-Kalyani Shankar(Violin) - Mudhra Bhaskar(Mrudangam) & Pudukottai Ramachandran(Ghatam) - S.Shashank(Flute) - Mysore Manjunath(Violin)- Satish Kumar(Mrudangam)-S.Karthick(Ghatam) & Thamaraikudi Rajasekar(Muharsing)

14^th Dec 1998

Four Hour Concert :

Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan(Vocal)-Delhi Sunderrajan(Violin )- Harikumar(Mrudangam) & V.Suresh (Ghatam)