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: Janani Iyer of IL (Vocal)
Sharada Krishnan of MA (violin)
Srivatsan Srinivasan of CA (mridangam)
Srikrishna Prasannan of OR (ghatam)

9:15am - 10:15am: Lalit Subramaniam of OH (Vocal)
Sanjay Sharma of MD (violin)
Kala Seva Mani Sriram N. Iyer of MN (mridangam)
Vivek Chellappa of CA (kanjira)

10:30am - 12:30pm: Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Delhi P. Sunder Rajan (Vocal)
Kala Rathna Kamalakiran Vinjamuri of VA (violin)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Tiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam (mridangam)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram K.V. Gopalakrishnan (kanjira)

1:00pm - 2:15pm: Sri Sri Sisters Sriya Srinivas & Sreeja Srinivas (Vocal)
Dr D. Badri Narayanan (violin)
Ashwinn Balachandran of ON (mridangam)

2:30pm - 4:00pm: Kalyanapuram S. Aravind (Vocal)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram V.V.S. Murari (violin)
Vinod Seetharaman of MI (mridangam)
Alathur T. Rajaganesh (kanjira)

4:15pm - 6:45pm: Amrutha Venkatesh (Vocal)
L. Ramakrishnan (violin)
S.J. Arjun Ganesh (mridangam)
Kala Rathna G. Chandrasekara Sharma (ghatam)

7:00pm - 9:30pm: Sangeetha Rathnakara N. Ravikiran (Chitraveena)
Sanjay Suresh of WI (violin)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (mridangam)
Akshanan Mayuran (mridangam)

Comfort Inn Ballroom

10:00pm - 11:00pm: Ashwin Srikant of CA (Vocal)
Laya Raghav of OH (violin)
Shyam Ravidath of OR (mridangam)

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