In the matter of food,too, VVS & team score highly. High quality S.Indian vegetarian food is served piping hot both for Lunch and Dinner. This is one service, we are sure is non-pareil. Food for the soul and food for the stomach!

Its truly commendable that a dedicated team of volunteers have been at it for so many years and are able to do something like this successfully year after year.

To organize a festival on this scale and magnitude, particularly in a foreign land, at a time of the year, when the weather is not friendly, not compromise on even the smallest detail, ensure no dilution in quality is no mean achievement. The organizers deserve high praise.

No show or event is successful unless there is adequate support from attendees and this festival. Over the years, this has become a must attend for all those interested in Carnatic Music, residing in US. If for some reason they miss going to the festival a particular year, they make sure they don’t miss the following year.

People come here to listen to some of the great vidwans, they come here to meet long lost friends & relatives, they come here to meet with vidwans, they come here to expoe their children to quality music, to make their children understand and appreciate other children, for their children to learn.

Still It is indeed a masterstroke, to include the competition for children as part of the festival.

Going by what one saw, the attendance may not be what it is, but for the competition.

The festival is well worth the experience and the organizers deserve high praise for doing a great job.

(Concluded)

Part-I

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