Vellinezhi, the art village of Palakkad district, will host a three-day national folk festival from Sunday. The Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi (KSNA) will organise the festival in association with the South Zone Cultural Centre, Thanjavur. The Kalagrama Mandiram will be the main venue of the mela.
M.V. Narayanan, Vice-Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, will inaugurate the festival. More than 100 folk artistes from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha will showcase their talents in the festival.
P. Mammikkutty, MLA, will preside over the inaugural. KSNA secretary Karivallur Murali will deliver the keynote address. K. Premkumar, MLA, and South Zone Cultural Centre director K.K. Gopalakrishnan will be the chief guests.