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: Nandanar Charitam
A presentation by Kuchipudi Sri Sai Dance Academy of VA
Conception & Choreography: Deepa Narayanan Sashindran
Direction: Sarada Jammi & Ameya King
Lyrics: Venkat Gadepalli
Music: Sweta Prasad & Renuka Prasad
Multimedia: Janardhan Raj URS

9:15am - 10:15am: Janaki Ramanan An Ode to Ranganatha
based on Hamsa Sandesham by Vedanta Desika
Curated by Dr Soumya Iyer of IL & Lavanyaa Surendar of WI
Choreography: Lavanyaa Surendar of WI
Music Score: Rasiga D. Prasadh
Rhythm and Music Production: Dr Guru Bharadwaaj

10:30am - 12:30pm: Sangeetha Rathnakara Nagai R. Muralidharan & Dr D. Badri Narayanan (Violin)
R. Sankaranarayanan of ON (mridangam)
Vijay Ganesh of VA (mridangam)

1:00pm - 2:00pm: Himaja Samraj (Vocal)
R. Raghul (violin)
Punnur Arvind Kaushik (mridangam)
Cleveland R. Balasubramaniam (kanjira)

2:15pm - 4:00pm: Acharya Rathnakara Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram V.V.S. Murari (Viola)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (mridangam)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram K.V. Gopalakrishnan (kanjira)

4:15pm - 6:45pm: Tiruvarur S. Girish (Vocal)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Delhi P. Sunder Rajan (violin)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Tiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam (mridangam)
Toronto Karthik Venkataraman (kanjira)

7:00pm - 9:30pm: Carnatica Brothers Sangeetha Kala Sagaram K.N. Shashikiran & P. Ganesh (Vocal)
Delhi R. Sridhar (violin)
B. Ganapathyraman (mridangam)
N. Guruprasad (ghatam)  

Comfort Inn Ballroom

10:00pm - 11:00pm: Sruthi Ramesh of MD (Vocal)
Krish Mohan of TX (mridangam)

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