The Sangeet Samman award 2013 was conferred on Pt.Manilal Nag, Sitar maestro of Bishnupur gharana of Bengal.
61st Annual Music Conference
The 61st annual music conference was held from 22nd to 25th January,2013 at Nazrul Mancha, Rabindra Sarobar as usual like previous years. The artistes were : Channula Mishra, Jasraj, Ulhas Kashalkar, Gundecha Brothers, Kaivalya Kumar Gurav, Sanjeev Abhayankar, Arshad Ali Khan, Parween Sultana, Shubhada Paradkar, Manjusha Patil, Meeta Pandit, Hariprasad Chowrasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Shahid Parvez, Viswa Mohon Bhatt, Partho Sarothy & Kartik Seshadri (duet), Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Nishat Khan, MitaNag, Ganesh & Kumaresh Rajagopalan (duet).