Valentine’s day | Circle of Love’s Big Picnik returns with line-up of international DJs and acts

A fashionable, inclusive creation level afloat of pumping beats with a hardstop Cinderella deadline of 12am. This defined the archetypal variation of Circle of Love’s Big Picnik astatine the Green Meadows edifice successful 2025. This all-out creation enactment with DJs and musicians similar Kayan and Nami, intelligibly acceptable the code for what is to travel this year. The festival returns for its 2nd variation with planetary acts similar Alexander Flood performing unrecorded creation music, jazztroniza and jazz location music, arsenic good arsenic Tiffany Quinn’s DJ acceptable from the UK, each connected February 14.

The organisers are wide astir 1 happening : your narration presumption does not substance here. All you request to cognize to bash is to spot wherever the bushed takes you. “This year, the picnic starts close successful the greeting with a fittingness and wellness league that focuses connected yoga and dependable healing. Music acts, a flea market, immoderate large brunch, and immoderate sets to apical disconnected the night, are portion of the plan. Since it is simply a day-long event, we’d emotion for families to travel too. It’s not a rave. It is simply a picnic,” says instrumentalist Gooth, 1 of the organisers.

Is it harmless to accidental that we person reached a constituent wherever dedicated euphony communities successful Chennai are pulling each the tricks from nether their sleeves to guarantee that the metropolis accesses chill acts and DJs? If the line-up is thing to spell by, the reply is yes.

Rasa, a Bengaluru-based DJ who is primitively from Punjab, says that it is going to beryllium her 5th clip playing successful Chennai. “It’s a increasing scene. And I emotion to beryllium a portion of thing that’s flourishing. The physics euphony country is becoming large present successful Chennai. I’m gladsome to spot that and lend successful each mode possible,” she says, adding that since she volition apt adjacent the night, she volition play immoderate precocious vigor numbers portion slipping successful immoderate lovey-dovey numbers since it is Valentine’s day.

Rasa says that she is astir excited to spot Australian drummer Alexander Flood execute with his band. Her sentiment is definite to find resonance among others who are attending the festival to drawback the headliner. Flood, who has been performing with his set crossed India, brings unneurotic a collision of jazz, funk, and rhythmic creation music. Speaking to The Hindu, the instrumentalist says that helium didn’t ever uncertainty that the radical successful the state would vibe to their music. “A festival similar this allows america to scope radical extracurricular of those who’d be a nine gig. We are putting unneurotic a acceptable that appeals to a wider audience,” helium says.

Gooth says that Circle of Love is an effort to champion indigenous philharmonic talent. It is wherefore artists similar Siiry, Hary Shanthi, Ana.Gha, Vardhan, and Nami, volition beryllium portion of the line-up too, too Gooth’s ain show with Kabir and Pushkar who person been portion of the aboriginal Chennai rap scene.

An absorbing summation to this year’s festival volition beryllium a store connected however to usage a DJ console by AlphaTheta and Bootcamp Goa. This is too a romanticist vinyl pop-up by the The Revolver Club wherever radical tin browse done aged vinyls and adhd them to their collection.

The Big Picnik by Circle of Love is connected February 14 astatine Green Meadows starting 7am till midnight. Tickets are astatine ₹1,499 for a mates and ₹999 for singles.