Jaywant Naidu is the first musician to perform North Indian Classical Music on
the Hawaiian guitar. Along with Mohammed Arif from Gibtone Guitar Corporation in Kolkata, he modified the Hawaiian guitar and created ‘The Jaywant Guitar’. It has 21 strings with three pairs of main melody strings and three ‘chikari’ strings. The main objective of the instrument is to be able to produce the sound of an ensemble of Hawaiian slide guitars. Jaywant Naidu performed for Paramparaa along with folk musicians from Rajasthan.

Harini Rao is a renowned Hindustani classical vocalist and has been under the tutelage of Smt. Swati Phadke. She received her Sangeet Visharad – from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Mumbai for Hindustani Classical Music and several awards at state and national level. She gave multiple performances in India and abroad and extensively promotes Indian Art and Cullture. She is the founder of the music school – Raageshree Foundation and School of Music.

Irfan Ahmed Khan is a young and promising artist from Hyderabad, a disciple of renowned sitarist Ustad Shahid Pravez Khan and also the son of a very well known sitar player Ustad Bashir Ahmed Khan.
Peri Thyagaraju is an acclaimed violinist, composer and performer of Carnatic
and Western Classical music. He is a third generation violin player, the son of Peri Srirama Murthy and grandson of Peri Subba Rao. He completed Grade 8 Western Classical from Thames Valley University, London.
In the Paramparaa event on 16th January, it was an interesting jugalbandhi of hindustani music by Irfan Khan on the Sitar and carnatic music by Peri Thyagaraju on the violin. There were elements of thumris along with carnatic compositions.

Sangeethakala and Rajyalakshmi who are known as Sangeethakala sisters
have established Kodandapani Sangeetha Vidya Samstha, a music centre. These sisters have received several awards and performed in India and abroad. They have learnt Carnatic classical music from their grandfather Sri. Kidambi
Kodandapani and also Nidhulu Krishnamurthy.

Tejaswini Nandibhatla is a trained classical singer having a Diploma in Carnatic Music and MA in Music from Telugu University, Hyderabad. Her Guruji is Mrs. Seshulatha Garu who is a well known classical singer from Hyderabad. Tejaswini has sung in movies and reality shows and has been performing concerts all over India and abroad with legendary singers.