{"id":25242,"date":"2016-01-20T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T05:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=25242"},"modified":"2016-02-12T18:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T13:21:47","slug":"nishagandhi-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/nishagandhi-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishagandhi Fest\u201916 &#8211; 7 nights of cultural extravaganza!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nishagandhi Festival, the seven magical evenings that showcases the beauty and grandeur of Indian classical dance and music will start from <strong>January 20<\/strong> at Kanakakkunnu. Organized by Kerala Tourism, Nishagandhi Festival, features some of the country\u2019s biggest names in dance and music.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nishagandhi Festival, features some of the country\u2019s biggest names in dance and music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This year\u2019s Nishagandhi festival will kick off with classical sitar concert by Anoushka Shankar, followed by performances of tabla exponent Zakir Hussain, and flautists Shashank Subramanyam and Rakesh Chourasia, dance ballet by actor Hema Malini, Kuchipudi by the mother-daughter duo of Vijayanthi Kashi and Prateeksha Kashi, Carnatic concert by T.V. Sankaranarayanan, a Carnatic-Hindustani jugalbandi by playback singers Gayatri and Sreeranjini Kodampally, and Odissi by Ileana Citaristi. There will be Kathakali performances presented by eminent masters every day at Kanakakkunnu Palace auditorium at 6.30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Nishagandhi Puraskaram 2016 will be given to musical maestro Ilayaraja for his artistic excellence and prominent contributions to Indian Cinema. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will present Nishagandhi Puraskaram award to Ilayaraja during the inaugural ceremony on January 20, evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nishagandhi fest also has a food festival where one experience a vast array of traditional Kerala cuisines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nishagandhi fest also has a food festival conducted by Kudumbashree and a crafts mela at Sooryakanthi ground. One can experience a vast array of traditional Kerala cuisine delicacies from the north to the south of Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>Another initiative of the festival is to offer the Spice Route Revival Project to promote the spice route that links the south western coast of India to Europe through tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Nishagandhi Festival 2016 will come to an end on<strong> 27<sup>th<\/sup> January 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nishagandhi Festival, the seven magical evenings that showcases the beauty and grandeur of Indian classical dance and music will start from January 20 at Kanakakkunnu. Organized by Kerala Tourism, Nishagandhi Festival, features some of the country\u2019s biggest names in dance and music. Nishagandhi Festival, features some of the country\u2019s biggest names in dance and music. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":25243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-25242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}