A city hotel has its Christmas day-long music fest

This is a December Season tradition at Hotel Maris on Cathedral Road, a neighbour of The Music Academy.

Every Christmas day, the hotel hosts a day-long music concerts festival at its hall on the first floor and allows rasikas and its guests to soak in it for free.

So this Christmas day, the day began with a vocal concert by Muthukumar, followed by a lunch break and then, three concerts which ended with a delightful veena-flute-violin concert - on the veena was Mudikondan Ramesh and on the flute, Thyagarajan Ramani.

Coffee and fruit juices were on sale in a corner and since Maris has recently redesigned its very popular restaurant on the ground floor, with a smart look heightened by the soft lighting, this place was packed at lunch time - its meal is a hot-seller.