Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan - Broadcast Schedule

The Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan is an annual festival of music, conducted by All India Radio. Every year, since 1954, it has been broadcasting concerts of known and upcoming artistes as part of this festival.

This is something I look forward to each year, a veritable feast for the soul. Every night for about a month in December, I go to sleep with the strains of beautiful music in my ears - and what could be more relaxing?

This year, the broadcast starts on December 2nd, 2006.

Everytime I get comfortable in the feeling that the whole world is getting net-savvy, there comes a rude realization that it is not yet so. An example in the present context is that I couldn't find the Broadcast Schedule of the Sangeet Sammelan anywhere on the net.

I finally found a handbook of AIR, which gives the entire schedule, and as my own little contribution to the music lovers of India, I have typed out the entire schedule, along with the dates, time, and categories.

Do tune in, and hope you enjoy it!

AKASHVANI SANGEET SAMMELAN - 2006
BROADCAST SCHEDULE

DATE	DAY	TIME	ARTIST	CATEGORY	K/H
2/12/2006	Saturday	9.30-11 pm	Veena Sahasrabuddhe	Vocal	H
4/12/2006	Monday	10-11 pm	Jayanthi Kumaresh	Veena	K
5/12/2006	Tuesday	10-11 pm	Barun Kumar Pal	Guitar	H
6/12/2006	Wednes- day	10-11 pm	Madhav Gudi	Vocal	H
7/12/2006	Thursday	10-11 pm	Trichur V. Ramachandran	Vocal	K
8/12/2006	Friday	10-11 pm	Arvind Parikh	Sitar	H
9/12/2006	Saturday	9.30-10.30 pm	Afroz Bano	Light Classical Vocal	H
9/12/2006	Saturday	10.30-11 pm	Nissar Hussain Khan	Tabla	H
10/12/2006	Sunday	10-11 am	H.C.Verma	Vocal	H
10/12/2006	Sunday	11-12 noon	Nityanand Haldipur	Flute	H
10/12/2006	Sunday	9 30 –11 pm	Kunnakkudi R.Vaidyanathan	Violin	K
11/12/2006	Monday	10-11 pm	Vijaya Jadhav	Vocal	H
12/12/2006	Tuesday	10-11 pm	Rajendra Prasanna	Flute	H
13/12/2006	Wednes- day	10-11 pm	Vishakha Hari	Vocal	K
14/12/2006	Thursday	10-11 pm	Alka Deo Marulkar	Vocal	H
15/12/2006	Friday	10-11 pm	Amarnath Mishra	Sitar	H
16/12/2006	Saturday	9 30 – 11 pm	N.Ramani	Flute	K
17/12/2006	Sunday	9 30 –11 pm	Ustad Mazhar Ali and Javaad Ali Khan	Vocal Duet	H
18/12/2006	Monday	10-11 pm	Niladri Kumar	Sitar	H
19/12/2006	Tuesday	10-11 pm	Cheppad A.E Vamanan Namboodiri	Vocal	K
20/12/2006	Wednes- day	10-11 pm	Shanti Sharma	Vocal	H
21/12/2006	Thursday	10-11 pm	Basant Kabra	Sarod	H
22/12/2006	Friday	10-11 pm	Chittoor G.Venkateshan	Flute	K
23/12/2006	Saturday	9 30-11 pm	AbhayNarayan Mallick	Dhrupad- Dhamar	H
24/12/2006	Sunday	10-11 am	Bharat Bhushan Goswami	Sarangi	H
24/12/2006	Sunday	11-12 noon	Baldevraj Verma	Vocal	H
24/12/2006	Sunday	9 30-11 pm	N.Ravikiran	Chitraveena	K
25/12/2006	Monday	10-11 pm	Mambalam Sisters	Vocal	K
26/12/2006	Tuesday	10-11 pm	Dinkar Panshikar	Vocal	H
27/12/2006	Wednes- day	10-11 pm	Praveen Shevlikar	Violin	H
28/12/2006	Thursday	10-11 pm	Kalyani Lakshminarayana	Veena	K
29/12/2006	Friday	10-11 pm	Nisha Parasnis	Vocal	H
30/12/2006	Saturday	9 30-11 pm	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Sarod	H
1/1/2007	Monday	10-11 pm	Desur D.S.D.Selvarathinam	Nagaswaram	K
2/1/2007	Tuesday	10-11 pm	Shubhra Guha	Vocal	H
3/1/2007	Wednes- day	10-11 pm	Bahauddin Dagar	Rudraveena	H
4/1/2007	Thursday	10-11 pm	T.V. Shankaranarayana	Vocal	K
5/1/2007	Friday	10-11 pm	Vishwanath	Vocal	H
6/1/2007	Saturday	9 30 – 10 30 pm	Samaresh Choudhury	Vocal	H
6/1/2007	Saturday	10 30-11 pm	Radheshyam Sharma	Pakhawaj	H
7/1/2007	Sunday	9 30-11 pm	Bombay sisters	Vocal	K
8/1/2007	Monday	10-11 pm	Sandipan Samajpati	Vocal	H
9/1/2007	Tuesday	10-11 pm	Saumitra Lahiri	Sitar	H
10/1/2007	Wednes- day	10-11 pm	M. Chandrashekharan	Violin	K

[K-KARNATIC, H-HINDUSTANI]
[Source: All India Radio Booklet (typed out with some corrections).]