 Another significant event in Chembai's early career was his concert at the Ramanavami festival in Palakkad in 1916.Among those who attended the concert was Pudukkotai Dakshinamurthy Pillai.After the festival, Pillai returned to Trichy to meet the violin maestro Govindaswamy Pillai and told him of the calibre of Chembai's music.