NEWS & NOTES S ri Rama Lalitha Kala Mandira has been doing yeoman service since 1955 in the field of Carnatic and Hindustani music. Its 57 th annual festival was inaugurated on 1 st January 2012 in its own concert hall. e celebrations, spread over January, featured Carnatic vocal concerts by talented musicians like Aishwarya Shankar, Prince Rama Varma, D.B. Ashwin, Vani Satish, Ramakrishnan Murthy, Sandeep Narayan, Adoor Sudarshan, N.R. Prashanth, V. Vijay Arun (C- guitar), and L.V. Mukund (C-flute). e main festival – Spring Music Festival – began on 1 st February at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja hall. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath inaugurated the festival by lighting the lamp. e concert series showcasing some of the best talent is widely publicised and is “open to all”. ree-hour concerts are organized and the enthusiastic rasika looks forward to the festival year after year. Bombay Jayashri presented a memorable concert to a packed audience. H.N. Bhaskar, Patri Satish Kumar, and Anirudh Athreya SRI RAMA LALITHA KALA MANDIRA Delightful concerts mark 57 th year event Visakha Hari Sanjay Subrahmanyan embellished the concert. Young Abhishek Raghuram who has a big fan following in the city regaled the audience with able support from Akkarai Subbalakshmi, Anantha R. Krishnan and G. Guruprasanna. e enthusiastic response to T.M. Krishna’s concert was to be seen to be believed. Embar Kannan, K. Arun Prakash and B.S. Purushothaman responded in an excellent manner to Krishna’s brilliant recital. In future the organisers need to look for additional space – such was the response for Visakha Hari’s musical discourse Meera Bai Charitram. She held the audience spellbound, ably assisted by Padma Shankar, H.S. Sudhindra and Udayraj Karpoor. e mellifluous flow of the Malladi Brothers’ concert for close to four hours was special, well supported by Embar S. Kannan, Neyveli Narayanan and G. Omkar Rao. Dr. R.N. Sreelatha presented a scholarly concert, with excellent support from V. Nalina Mohan, Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma and V.S. Ramesh. S. Sowmya’s presentation on allied raga-s,