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:

9:00am - 5:00pm: Music Competition

8:00am - 9:00am: Advanced Pallavi Competition Winner
Sasanka S.N. of VA (Vocal)
Sanjith Narayanan of VA (violin)
Srikar Chittari of VA (mridangam)
Samyuktha Sreeram of VA (ghatam)

9:15am - 11:30am: Prof. B. Balasubrahmaniyan of CT (Vocal)
Vittal Rangan (violin)
Vinod Seetharaman of MI (mridangam)
Dr Ravi Balasubramanian of OR (ghatam)

11:45am - 12:45pm: Concert Competition Winner
Shruti Govindarajan of IL (Vocal)
Dr D. Badri Narayanan (violin)
Punnur Arvind Kaushik (mridangam)
N. Sundar (morsing)

1:00pm - 2:00pm: Dr Keerthana Sankar of CA (Vocal)
Mithuran Manogaran of ON (violin)
J.P. Suriya Nambisan (mridangam)
Srikrishna Prasannan of OR (ghatam)

2:15pm - 4:00pm: Kala Rathna Aishwarya Shankar (Vocal)
Rishabh Ranganathan of IL (violin)
Ethirajan Ramanujan of MN (mridangam)
Toronto S. Surenthar of ON (morsing)

4:15pm - 4:45pm: Ceremonial Procession and Mallari
Traditional Kolattam by students of
Nrithya Seva Mani Sujatha Srinivasan, Shri Kalaa Mandir, OH

4:45pm  6:45pm: Kala Rathna Abilash Giriprasad (Vocal)
Sahana Vasudevan of NJ (violin)
Sangeetha Rathnakara Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (mridangam)
Kala Seva Mani Dr David Nelson of CT (mridangam)
N. Sundar (morsing)

7:00pm - 9:30pm: Krishna Leela Tarangam A Dance Production
Choreography: Jayanthi Subramaniam
Music: Dr Seetha Rajan & Nandini Anand
Dancers: Disciples of Nrithya Kala Sagaram Jayanthi Subramaniam, Nrithya Seva Mani Sujatha Srinivasan of OH, Vani Iswara of TX, Nrithya Seva Mani Sushmitha Arunkumar of IL, Nrithya Seva Mani Chitra Ramaswamy of NJ, Dr S. Divyasena, and Kala Rathna Pooja Kumar Shyam of MI

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