This year Mylapore festival would have villupattu and children’s special programmes
Posted on: 03/Jan/2018 4:25:12 PM
It was in the year 2001 Mylapore festival was first started and since then it has become very popular. It must be noted that in this year 2018 this Mylapore festival would be held between 4th January and 7th January and it would be sponsored by Sundaram Finance. This upcoming festival would have close to 40 events and over 200 artists would be taking part in it.
Various events that would be taking place during the Mylapore festival are pulli kollam contests, food walks etc. These food walks would be anchored by Sridhar Venkatraman who would be trying his best to bring out different types of food joints in Mylapore. Apart from these two there are also events such as heritage walking and this would be anchored by Chitra Madhavan.
It is worthy to note that this upcoming festival would also have programmes for children. Saint Poet storytelling contests and arts/ crafts workshop are some of the examples for events of children. All these have raised huge expectations now.
Villupaatu is a popular form of music based storytelling method is well known. This ancient musical storytelling method would be making its presence felt in this Mylapore festival for the very first time. It is important to note that this villupattu would be presented by Bharathi Thirumugam and Kalaimagan.
