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: Ainthothum Anandam
A Dance Production with music composed by R. Suryaprakash.
Dance Gurus: Akila Subramanyam of VA, Chitra Ramaswamy of NJ, Aler Krishnan of CA

9:15am - 10:15am: Seerkazhi Moovar Rare Compositions of Muthuthandavar, Marimuthu Pillai, and Arunachala Kavi

Choreography by Akila Subramanyam, Salangai Arts, VA

Dancers
Neha Asuri of VA
Kyra Kishore of VA
Anamika Nair of VA
Gowri Potti of VA
Kaavya Karthik of VA
Vilasini Gopal of VA
Priya Baskar of VA
Priyanka Mosur of VA
Ananya Magesh of VA
Arya Bharath of VA
Hasene Devi of VA
Hasini Dilliraj of VA
Sanjana Rachakonda of VA
Maya Kamat of VA
Rhea Sharma of VA
Varsha Shankar of VA
Aegna Santhosh of VA
Esha Butna of VA
Sanjana Sudheer of VA

10:30am - 12:30pm: Sangeetha Kala Sagaram V.K. Manimaran (Vocal)
Delhi R. Sridhar (violin)
B. Ganapathyraman (mridangam)
S.V. Ramani (ghatam)

1:00pm - 2:00pm: Lakshmi Vijayaraghavan (Vocal)
Aditya Satyadeep of CA (violin)
Mauran Manogaran of ON (mridangam)
Sathya Ganesan of CA (ghatam)

2:15pm - 4:15pm: Chinmaya Sisters Uma & Radhika (Vocal)
Kamalakiran Vinjamuri of VA (violin)
J.P. Suriya Nambisan (mridangam)
Sunil Kumar (kanjira)

4:30pm - 5:30pm: Mayuri Haridas (Kathak)

5:45pm - 6:45pm: Dvayam - Yearning & Joy
Composer: Kala Rathna K. Bharat Sundar
Choreographer: Kala Rathna Aishwarya Balasubramanian of NH

7:15pm - 8:15pm: Dvayam Grief & Peace
Composer: Kala Rathna K.S. Vishnudev & Lakshmi Vijayaraghavan
Choreographer: Sumithra Subramaniam

8:30pm - 9:30pm: Dvayam Victory & Compassion
Composer: S. Adithyanarayanan
Choreographer: Kala Rathna Pavitra Bhat

Comfort Inn Ballroom

10:00pm - 11:00pm: Akshay Sridhar of NY (Vocal)
Abhinav Ganesan of PA (mridangam)

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