Mangalore, Dec. 7: The felicitation ceremony of ‘A’ grade artist of Akashavani, Nagaswara Visharada Sri Nagesh A Bappanadu will be held today on Saturday, Dec.7 at Sri Dhramasthala Manjunatheshwara Law College auditorium.
Udupi Shri Pejavara Math Shri Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji will grace the occasion. Central minister Dr. M. Veerappa Moily will preside over the function. State minister Abhaychandra Jain will be the chief guest. And popular Saxophone player ‘Kalaimamani’ ‘Padmashri’ Dr. Kadri Gopalnath will inaugurate the programme. Nityananda Rao, secretary of Mani Accademy will give felicitation speech.
In the same occasion Nagaswara music programme will be there by Kalashri Vidwan Sri Annu Devadiga Dharmasthala.
After the formal function ‘Nritya Ratna’ Vidhushi Srmt. Rashmi Chidananda and district Rajyotsava Award winner Srmt. Geeta Saralaya will stage ‘Yugala Nritya’, ‘Nritya-Sata’, said the honorary president Dharmadarshi Harikrishna Punarooru and President Capt. Ganesh Karnik of Nagesh A Bappanadu felicitation committee and honorary committee.