The golden year celebration of Himmela teaching of veteran Yakshagana Himmela Guru Mambady Subrahmanya Bhat was held on 4th November 2018 at Town Hall Mangaluru with the participation of senior and junior shishyas spread over the region.Neary 700 people attended the function.
The program started at 9am and got over by 8.30pm.
The highlight of the program was presentation of Poorvaranga songs, singing by havyasi and professional bhagavats, Talamaddale and Bayalata.
There was a release of Audio CD as a documentation of poorvaranga presentation sung by Guru Mambady Subrahmanya Bhat.On maddale Padyana Shankaranarayana Bhat and on the chende Delanthamajalu Subrahmanya Bhat.
The Guruvandana Program was conducted in the presence of His Holiness Shri Keshavananda Swamiji of Edneer Mutt , Harikrishna Punarooru, Padyana Shankaranarayana Bhat, Puttige Raghurama Holla, M Narayana Hegde of Kalaranga Udupi, Kumble Sunder Rao.
Felicitation speech was delivered by Kadri Navaneeth Shetty.
The program was touching and convention was with warmth and enthusiasm.
The surprise was the presence of Veteran Bhagavath Padyana Ganapathi Bhat who paid visit and sung 3 yakshagana songs to remember the great Guru Mambady Narayana Bhagavatha who taught him the basics of Yakshagana Bhagavathike.
veteran Maddale kalavida Padyana Shankaranaryana Bhat played Prasanga Peethige as a respect to Gurus of Mambady family.
newspaper clippling of report of the progm in The Hindu dated 5.11.2018 Photo H S Manjunath |
Udayavani Kalavihara dated 2.11.2018