A Jazz-Carnatic Collaboration @ the Cleveland Thyagaraga Festival
A Jazz-Carnatic Collaboration @ the Cleveland Thyagaraga Festival, Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland State University
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 8,000 attendees with 2,000 appearing for the opening weekend. The year 2016 is the Festival's 39th year.
A Jazz-Carnatic Collaboration, featuringPadma Shri awardee Aruna Sairam (Vocal)Prof. Mark Stone (Gyil, Mbira, and World Percussion)Maya Azucena (vocal)Supported byK.N. Shashikiran (vocal)P. Ganesh (chitraveena)Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (mridangam)B.V. Raghavendra Rao (violin)N. Guruprasad (ghatam)G. Ravi Shankar (keyboard)N. Sundar (tabla)andChinelo Amen-Ra (djembe, congas, and percussion)Matt Dufresne (Saxophone)Miles Brown (Bass)Also featuringMayuri Vasan (vocal)Apoorva Das of TX (vocal)Varun Ganesan of NY (vocal)Vivrd Prasanna of CA (vocal)Sudarshan Mohan of CA (vocal