A musical extravaganza and dance performances by 10 visually challenged artistes of Fani Crosby Melodies troupe, marked the cultural programmes conducted by the Jesus Cares Ministries, a Coimbatore-based organisation, in Tuticorin City on 21st April.

Started with `Ithuvare seytha seyalkalkake... ', the troupe sang a total of 12 Christian devotional songs.

Other major numbers included `Darsanam Tharavendum... .'.

Albert (keyboard), Muthukumar (keyboard), Marisamy (tabla) and Dharmaraja (rhythm pad), scored background music to the vocal of Bheemaraja, Sheela Remijious, Lakshmi and Thangamari.

While Govindan performed `karakattom', Rakesh did enthral the audience with his folk dance numbers.

Thangamari, who sang beautiful numbers, proved that she was a good dancer too with her Bharatanatyam sequences.