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: Anbe Shivam
A thematic group presentation from different composers on Lord Shiva, curated by Chithra Vaidyanathan, Dhivyadhwani School of Music, AZ

9:15am - 10:15am: Oorja Exploring Feminine Strength
Conceptualized and Choreographed by Kala Rathna Dr Janaki Rangarajan of VA

10:30am - 12:15pm: Sangeetha Rathnakara Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Vocal)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Nagai R. Muralidharan (violin)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (mridangam)
Sunil Kumar (kanjira)

12:30pm - 2:00pm: Sruti Sarathy of CA (Violin)
Punnur Arvind Kaushik (mridangam)
Vivek Chellappa of CA (kanjira)

2:15pm - 4:00pm: Vasudha Ravi (Vocal)
Aditya Satyadeep of CA (violin)
S.V. Ramani (mridangam)

4:15pm - 6:45pm: Sankari Krishnan (Vocal)
R. Raghul (violin)
Sai Raghavan (mridangam)
N. Sundar (morsing)

7:00pm - 9:30pm: Kala Rathna K.S. Vishnudev (Vocal)
B.V. Raghavendra Rao (violin)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Thanjavur K. Murugaboopathi (mridangam)
Kala Rathna G. Chandrasekara Sharma (ghatam)

Comfort Inn Ballroom

10:00pm - 11:00pm: Srinidhi Puccha of OH (Veena)
Sumedha Mahesh of OH (violin)
Vageesh Nanduri of NC (mridangam)

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