The Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival is the largest Indian classical music festival outside of India. It was first celebrated in 1978 and has now grown to be a 12-day festival with more than 10,000 attendees with 5,000 appearing for the opening weekend. The year 2025 is the Festival's 45th year.

Schedule:

8:00am - 9:00am: Carnatic Harmony
Presented by Carnatica

9:15am - 10:15am: Aadum Chidambaramo
A group presentation conceptualized and conducted by Sangeetha Rathnakara Papanasam Ashok Ramani

10:30am - 1:00pm: Sangeetha Rathnakara Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal)
Vittal Rangan (violin)
Akshay Anantapadmanabhan (mridangam)
Sowmiya J. Narayanan of VA (ghatam)

1:15pm - 2:15pm: Music Competition Prize distribution

2:30pm - 4:00pm: Veena Gaanam
Naadharasa Center for Music, disciples of Nirmala Rajasekar of MN

4:15pm - 5:15pm: Bhakthi Vijayam
Presented by Gayatri Fine Arts Global
Curated by Sangeetha Kala Sagaram P. Ganesh

5:30pm - 7:30pm: Sooryagayathri (Vocal)
Adarsh Ajaykumar (violin)
P.V. Anil Kumar (mridangam)
Prasanth Sankar (tabla)
Silesh Marar (percussion)

8:00pm - 9:30pm: Nrithya Mani Mala A Thematic Presentation
Nrithya Kala Sagaram Dr S. Divyasena (Bharathanatyam)
and her disciples
Upanisha Kannan (Bharathanatyam)
Shabin Bright (Bharathanatyam)

Comfort Inn Ballroom

10:00pm - 11:00pm: Pranav Kikkeri of TX (Vocal)
Sanjay Suresh of WI (violin)
Akshay Venkatesan of CA (mridangam)

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