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:

9:30am - 10:30am: Inaugural Concert
Akshara Samskriti (Vocal)
Prahlad Saravanapriyan of CA (violin)
Srihari Raman of MA (mridangam)

10:45am - 12:15pm: Dr B. Vijay Gopal (Flute)
Dr D. Badri Narayanan (violin)
Trichy B. Harikumar (mridangam)
Trichy S. Krishnaswamy (ghatam)

12:45pm - 2:15pm: Vivek Moozhikulam (Vocal)
Bhargav Tumkur of MD (violin)
Akshanan Mayuran (mridangam)
Sunil Kumar (kanjira)

2:30pm - 4:00pm: Flute Brothers Heramb & Hemanth (Flute)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram Thanjavur K. Murugaboopathi (mridangam)
N. Guruprasad (ghatam)

4:15pm - 6:45pm: R. Suryaprakash (Vocal)
Delhi R. Sridhar (violin)
Punnur Arvind Kaushik (mridangam)
Alathur T. Rajaganesh (kanjira)

7:00pm - 9:30pm: Sangeetha Kala Sagaram R. Thiagarajan (Flute)
Kala Rathna Kamalakiran Vinjamuri of VA (violin)
B. Ganapathyraman (mridangam)
Sangeetha Kala Sagaram K.V. Gopalakrishnan (kanjira)

Comfort Inn Ballroom

10:00pm - 11:00pm: Neyveli Ramalakshmi of TX (Vocal)
Sudarshan Prasanna of GA (violin)
Navneeth Gopinath of PA (mridangam)

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