Yaksha, the annual festival of classical music and dance held in the week preced&shying Mahashivaratri at the Isha Yoga Centre in Coimbatore, is back in its sixth edition with an equally virtuoso line-up featuring Bharatanatyam by Geeta Chandran, sarod by Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Carnatic vocal by TV Sanka&shyranarayanan and Bombay Jayashree, Hindustani vocal in the Dhrupad tradition by Sayeeduddin Dagar and in the khyal style by Pandits Rajan-Sajan Mishra, and the Carnatic violin by Ganesh and Kumaresh. The Hands of Grace crafts festival runs parallely with over 50 stalls of exquisite artefacts and hand-woven fabric. Yoga programmes are also offered. Mahasivaratri itself is an all-night celebration of music, dance and meditation
What Yaksha Festival 2015
When 10-17 February
Contact mahashivarathri.org