Cultural Festival
Madras Christian College hosts Deep Woods, which is an inter-collegiate Cultural Festival.Typically held each year in February, it is a three day event with various colleges from all over the country participating. MCC, as the hosting college, does not participate in the festival. Over 70 colleges from Chennai and other cities in India are participants in the event, bringing together over 30,000 people.
The name Deepwoods is inspired by a long-held myth about the "Phantom of the Woods".
The highlight of the second day of the event is a light music show, aimed at integrating youth of different ethnic backgrounds through multi-lingual music.
Anuratha Sriram, Malgudi Subha, Srinivasan and Unni Krishnan have performed to packed audiences and cheering fans at the event.
A rock concert is the highlight of the third day, involving one of India's leading rock bands. In the past bands such as Parikrama, Orange Street, Pentagram, Moksha, The Killer Tomatoes, Afs, Them Clones and others have headlined.
DeepWoods 2004 was the Silver Jubilee Year for the Festival which began in 1980. The Fest had a byline that said "Celebrating 25 years of Creativity". Over 40,000 students attended the 31st event, at which returning Indian metal bands Blind Image and Junkyard Groove, and Escher's Knot played- all these bands had also played in 1999.
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