Sama Festival of Music & Dance 2026 – Day 2: Sama Awards, Dance & Concerts

The 18th Sama Festival of Music & Dance, dedicated to the Defence Forces of India — two days of Carnatic vocal, violin, veena and flute concerts, dance, and the Sama awards ceremony. Sat 21 – Sun 22 November 2026 Venue: AC Auditorium, Second Floor, Jayarama Seva Mandali, Jayanagar 8th Block, Bengaluru 560070 Sun, 22 Nov 2026 — Day 2 of 2 • 10 AM onwards — Felicitations to Veera Narees and the Sama awards ceremony. Guests: Sri Rammohan, Vid. S Shankar, Smt. Hemavathi Shankaranarayana • 1 PM — Lunch break • 2 PM — "Hasya Chikitse": Bun Butter Jam by Laxman Shiva Shankar • 3 PM — Dance performance by students of Natyakalacharyas Kiran Subramanyam & Sandhya Kiran • Coffee break • 4:30 PM — Vid. Prashanth N R (vocal), Vid. Vishwajith Mattur (violin), Vid. Prashanth B S (mridanga) • 6 PM — Flute: Vid. Shashidhar & Vid. Supradeep, Vid. Sudhindra H S (mridanga), Vid. Karthikeya R (violin), Vid. Ranganath Chakravarthy (ghata) Sama awards 2026: • Sama Lifetime Puraskar — Prof. Visweswaran R (veena) • Sama Puraskar — Vid. Sathya Narayan Raju (dance), Vid. Kiran Subramanyam (dance), Vidushi Pusthakam Ramaa (vocal), Vidushi Geetha Ramanand (veena) • Felicitations — Smt. Goda Gopal (Sanskrit), Sri Gaurish Akki (media), Sri Dr. H. Satyanarayanacharya (Sanskrit), Sri Hitlalli SuryaNarayana Bhat (Sanskrit), Sri Raju Somayaji (music connoisseur), Sri Lakshmi Varaprasad (Indian Air Force; Rama Koti Lekhaka) • Sama Fellowship — Kumari Vishrutha R V; Sama Senior Fellowship — Sri Pragalbh • Sama Yuva Puraskar — Sri Pranav S Balakrishna (mridanga), Sri Bhagavat Bhat (mridanga), Chi. Skanda Manjunath (ghata) • Sama Scholarship — Chi. Bharath Chandra R Bharadwaj, Chi. Samarth Chandra R Bharadwaj, Chi. Ananth Narasimha Murthy • Sama Balapuraskar — Chi. Vishnu Vasisht (vocal), Kum. Pramati (Sanskrit), Kum. Aadya Bhave (Bhagavad Gita), G Shreekiran Josyer (vocal), G ShreeNandan Josyer (vocal), Pranav Adiga (flute)