Yamini (music festival)
# Yamini (music festival)

Yamini is an annual Indian classical music festival in Bangalore, organized by SPIC MACAY and hosted at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB).

## Structure

The annual music event is being held for more than 7 years. The event is generally held in open air inside IIMB campus at the night before India's republic day and runs from dusk to dawn (6pm to 6 am). According to SPICMACAY, the primary organizers, the goal of the festival is to introduce and promote Indian classical music and arts amongst the young generation.

## Performers

In the last few years the organizers invited many Indian classical musicians and performers. Some of them are—

| Year | Performers | Field |
| - | - | - |
| 2012 | Ashwini Bhide Deshpande | Hindustani vocal |
| 2012 | Kala Ramnath | Hindustani violin |
| 2012 | Alarmel Valli | Bharatnatyam |
| 2012 | Shashank Subramanyam | Carnatic flute |
| 2012 | Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan | Carnatic vocal |
| 2013 | Malavika Sarukkai | Bharatnatyam |
| 2013 | Vishwa Mohan Bhatt | Mohan Veena |
| 2013 | Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi | Carnatic violin |
| 2013 | Wasifuddin Dagar | Hindustani vocal |
| 2013 | Bombay Jayashri | Carnatic vocal |
| 2014 | L. Subramaniam | Violin |
| 2014 | Hyderabad brothers | Carnatic vocal |
| 2014 | Kaushiki Chakraborty | Hindustani vocal |
| 2014 | Tarun Bhattacharya | Santoor |
| 2014 | Konark Natya Mandap | Gotipua dance |
| 2015 | Dhananjayans | Bharatnatyam |
| 2015 | Parveen Sultana | Hindustani vocal |
| 2015 | Nityanand Haldipur | Hindustani flute |
| 2015 | Ganesh and Kumaresh | Violin |
| 2015 | Nithyasree Mahadevan | Carnatic vocal |
| 2016 | Hariprasad Chaurasia | Hindustani flute |
| 2016 | Jayanthi Kumaresh | Carnatic Veena |
| 2016 | Margi Madhu | Koodiyattam |
| 2016 | Saketharaman | Carnatic vocal |
| 2016 | Gundecha Brothers | Dhrupad |
