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: Sangeetha Rathnakara N. Ravikiran's Jyotirlinga Kshetra Mala
Presented by the North American Melodic & Dance Ensemble
Music Direction: Vanitha Suresh of WI, Arohana Arts Academy

9:15am - 10:15am: Guru Samarpanam
A medley of varnams, krithis, and thillanas composed or popularized by Sangeetha Rathnakara Lalgudi G. Jayaraman
presented by students of Acharya Rathnakara Vittal Ramamurthy
Navneeth Gopinath of PA (mridangam)
Samyuktha Sreeram of VA (ghatam)

10:30am - 12:30pm: Nrithya Rathnakara Narthaki Nataraj (Bharathanatyam)
Shakthi Bhaskar (Concept & Coordination)

1:00pm - 2:00pm: S. Aishwarya & S. Saundarya (Vocal)
Rishabh Ranganathan of IL (violin)
J.P. Suriya Nambisan (mridangam)
Balaji Chandran of MN (ghatam)

2:15pm - 4:00pm: Nirmala Rajasekar of MN (Veena)
B.V. Raghavendra Rao (violin)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Thanjavur K. Murugaboopathi (mridangam)
Kala Seva Mani Sriram N. Iyer of MN (kanjira)
S.V. Ramani (ghatam)

4:15pm - 6:45pm: Kala Rathna K. Bharat Sundar (Vocal)
L. Ramakrishnan (violin)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Trichy Sankaran (mridangam)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram K.V. Gopalakrishnan (kanjira)

7:00pm - 9:30pm: Sangeetha Rathnakara Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan (Vocal)
Shankara Prasad Santhanagopalan (Vocal support)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Nagai R. Muralidharan (violin)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Tiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam (mridangam)
Balaji Chandran of MN (ghatam)

Comfort Inn Ballroom

10:00pm - 11:00pm: Nandini Muralidharan of MA (Vocal)
Anirudh Ganesan of PA (mridangam)

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