Homage to guitarist on May 1
Paying homage to noted guitarist Prakash Krishna, who died recently in a road accident, and as part of the efforts to mobilise a relief fund for his family, Kairali TV, Swaralaya and Soorya Fine Arts Society will jointly organise an ‘Eshal Sandhya’ in the city on May 1.
Education and Cultural Affairs Minister M.A. Baby told a news conference here on Wednesday that the musical evening, titled ‘Snehathinte Patturumal’, will be held at AKG Hall at 6 p.m. on that day. Noted singers K.S. Chitra, M.G. Sreekumar, Unni Menon, K.G. Markose, Sudeep Kumar, Thajudeen Vadakara, Ramesh Narayanan and others will participate in the programme.
Cine actor Suresh Gopi also will participate and sing songs. The first instalment of the relief fund will be handed over to Prakash Krishna’s family at the function.
A committee, comprising Ministers M.A. Baby, M. Vijayakumar and C. Divakaran, MPs Shashi Tharoor, A. Sampath and T.N. Seema, Mayor Jayan Babu, V.S. Sivakumar, M.S. Kumar, G. Rajmohan and Soorya Krishnamoorthy will work for the success of the programme.
V. Sivankutty MLA is the chairman of the committee.
Soorya Krishnamoorthy and G. Rajmohan said all the revenue collected through the programme will be given to Prakash Krishna’s family.
The organisers have opened an account in the name of the Prakash Krishna Family Relief Fund with the State Bank of Travancore branch on Kerala University office campus at Thiruvananthapuram - Branch no. 70292 with the account no 67109015281. IFSE/NEFT/RTGS Code: SBTR0000292.
