iCarnatic broadcast several music and dance programs of Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival between April 12, 2017 to April 23, 2017. The programs were webcast live and enabled for view on-demand until September 30, 2017.

In addition iCarnatic also broadcast the Music and Dance Competitions

iCarnatic is proud to present the 6th Annual Margazhi Series Concerts - Margazhi in Detroit 2016 in collaboration with Sri Venkateswara Temple & Cultural Center of Novi, MI.

This year pays tribute to the Alathur Brothers on the birth centenary of Sri Sivasubramania Iyer by young & aspiring talents of North Ameria.

iCarnatic partnered with Maximum Media and Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival for the 2nd Annual Carnatic Music Idol USA Celebration Series 2016. iCarnatic coordinated events in Chicago, Detroit and San Jose.

The event is produced for Kalaignar Asia TV to be aired in early 2017.

iCarnatic conducted the 3rd Annual Summer Music & Dance Festival in Naperville, IL on August 13 & 14, 2016.

The festival featured 19 concerts, 2 Bharathanatyam dance presentations and a Carnatic Choir conducted by Guru Sri Neyveli Santhanagopalan.

In addition to the concerts, this year included an intensive 5 day workshop by Guru Sri Neyveli Santhanagopalan for 10 select students.

iCarnatic presented a live Nrithya Kutcheri in Fox Valley UMC on April 10, 2016.

Carnatica Brothers (Vocal), Smitha Madhav (Nrithya), Raghavendra Rao (Violin), Vinod Seetharaman (Mridangam), Guruprasad (Ghadam)

iCarnatic broadcast several music and dance programs of Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival between March 23 to April 3, 2016. The programs were webcast live and enabled for view on-demand.

In addition iCarnatic also broadcast the Music and Dance Competitions

iCarnatic conducted the Margazhi Festival Concerts live from Detroit in collaboration with Sri Venkateswara Temple, Novi, MI

This years festival paid tribute to the "Queen of Carnatic Music" Smt. MS Subbulakshmi. The festival featured 28 programs by young talent and schools from North America. They presented songs popularized by Smt. M S Subbulakshmi

The concerts can be viewed on iCarnatic Channel in YouTube.. Click Here for Recording

iCarnatic was proud to host Carnatic Vocal Concert by Rithvik Raja accompanied by HN Bhaskar (Violin), Vijay Ganesh (Mridangam) and Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira) Venue: Naperville Public Library (95th Street), 3015 Cedar Glade Dr, Naperville, Illinois 60564 Date/Time: Friday, November 13, 2015 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

iCarnatic is proud to be associated with Cleveland Tyagaraja Festival and Maximum Media to host Carnatic Music Idol USA Celebration Series 2015 in Bay Area, Midwest in Chicago & Detroit and East Coast in New Jersey. Several local Teachers and students were featured as part of the celebration. The highlights of the celebration will be broadcast on Kalaignar Asia TV and the full version of the program in RagamalikaTV.com.

Sangeeth Samraat 2015 was the reality show competition produced by Abayam Creations for Sankara TV. Sri K N Shashikiran (Carnatica) is the creative head. iCarnatic hosted the Chicago prelims for Sangeeth Samraat 2015 on September 7, 2015.

iCarnatic conducted the 2nd Annual Summer Music & Dance Festival on August 14-16, 2015.

For this year, the theme chosen was "Dasavatharam" - the 10 avatars of Lord Vishnu. 10 young artists were given 1 avatar each. They worked with the dancers to depict the story of the avatar. Guru Sri Neyveli Santhanagopalan was kind to write 4 songs for 4 avatars, tune it and teach 4 of the young artists.

The events were attended by over 200 people in-person and over 500 people online watching live.

August 14, 2015 from 5:15pm to 8:30pm - Naperville Public Library, 95th Street, Naperville, IL

• 5:15pm - Shilpa Sathyanathan (Vocal), Sharada Krishnan (Violin) & Raghav Muralidharan (Mridangam)
• 5:45pm - Akshay Ravi (Flute), Sharada Krishnan (Violin) & Vishvak Kumaran (Mridangam)
• 6:45pm - Sushmitha Ravikumar (Vocal), Keerthana Sankar (Violin) & Arjun Raghavan (Mridangam). She presented Varaha avatar dance by Mathangi Sridharan

August 15, 2015 from 9:45am to 9:00pm - Madden Theatre, North Central College, 171 Chicago Ave, Naperville, IL

• 9:45AM - Keerthana Sankar (Vocal), Neha Krishnamachary (Violin) & Vignesh Venkataraman (Mridangam). She presented Narasimha Avatar danced by Joshua George
• 11:00AM - Vidya Kanthan (Vocal), Sharada Krishnan (Violin) & Sanjay Subramanian (Mridangam). She presented Parasurama Avatar danced by Bhavya Kumaran
• 1:00PM - Shruthi & Shashank Subramaniam (Flute), Neha Krishnamachary (Violin) & Athrey Nadhan (Mridangam). They presented Krishna Avatar danced by Shriya Srinivasan
• 2:15PM - Arthi Suresh (Vocal), Sushmitha Ravikumar (Violin) & Arjun Raghavan (Mridangam). She presented Kurma Avatar danced by Bhavya Kumaran & Joshua George
• 3:45PM - Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin), Sanjay Subramanian (Mridangam). He presented Vamana avatar danced by Shriya Srinivasan
• 5:00PM - Guhan Venkataraman (Veena), Siddharth Ashokkumar (Violin) & Arjun Raghavan (Mridangam). He presented Rama Avatar danced by Sutikshna Veeravalli
• 6:30PM - Hariharan Ravi (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin) & Vignesh Venkataraman (Mridangam). He presented Matsya Avatar danced by Bhavya Kumaran
• 7:45PM - Dance Presentation by Anubhava

August 16, 2015 from 1:15pm to 4:30pm - Naperville Public Library, 95th Street, Naperville, IL

• 1:15pm - Arthi Nadhan (Veena) & Janani Iyer (Vocal), Raghav Muralidharan (Mridangam)
• 2:00pm - Shriya Srinivasan (Vocal), Siddharth Ashokkumar (Violin), Athrey Nadhan (Mridangam). She presented Balarama Avathar danced by Sutikshna Veeravalli
• 3:00pm - Kruthi Bhat (Vocal), Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin), Vignesh Venkataraman (Mrudangam). She presented Kalki Avathar danced by Sutikshna Veeravalli

iCarnatic conducted live Kathakali Dance Presentation by Sadanam Balakrishna and troupe. Click Here for the press coverage of the presentation. This event was conducted in association with Cleveland Aradhana Committee and Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple.

iCarnatic broadcast several music and dance programs of Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival between April 1 to April 12, 2014. The programs were webcast live and enabled for view on-demand. In addition iCarnatic also broadcast the Music and Dance Competitions

iCarnatic conducted the 4th Annual Margazhi Music Festival. The festival was conducted in Detroit this year in association with Sri SV Temple & Cultural Center, Novi, MI.

The goal of this festival is to provide a platform for students of Carnatic Music from North America. This year's festival featured 26 concerts performed by over 40 young performers.

The event was held at SV Temple at Novi, MI

Video archives can be found on the iCarnatic channel on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/icarnatic/)

iCarnatic helped coordinate the Carnatic Music Idol USA Season 4 Midwest Preliminaries and National Finals The preliminaries were conducted on Nov 15 and Finals were conducted on Nov 16, 2014 The competition was held at the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago, Lemont, IL.

iCarnatic in association with Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple, Aurora, IL conducted a 3-day Summer Music & Dance Festival in Chicago.

The first day was in the style of Lecture Demonstration and was conducted at the Naperville Public Library located at 3015 Cedar Glade Road, Naperville, IL. The 2nd and 3rd day concerts were conducted at Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple, Sullivan Road, Aurora, IL

Video archives can be found on the iCarnatic channel on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdvD_AQZkjekbN5iMbNsbyxsOrdFFaTe5)

iCarnatic broadcast 6 programs of GLAC Sarovar Festival on May 31 & June 1, 2014. The programs were webcast live from Michigan.

iCarnatic broadcast SAPNA Veena Festival 2014 "EKAAHAM". The festival featured performances round the clock for 24 hours. The programs were webcast live.

iCarnatic broadcast several music and dance programs of Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival between April 16 to April 27, 2014. The programs were webcast live and enabled for view on-demand. In addition iCarnatic also broadcast the Music and Dance Competitions

iCarnatic conducted the 3rd Annual Margazhi Music Festival. The festival was conducted in Detroit this year in association with Sri SV Temple & Cultural Center, Novi, MI.

The goal of this festival is to provide a platform for students of Carnatic Music from North America. This year's festival featured 18 concerts performed by over 30 young performers.

The event was held at SV Temple at Novi, MI

Video archives can be found on the iCarnatic channel on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdvD_AQZkjekPtAk8Jp35tDtX1t1ty72A)

iCarnatic partnered with Charsur Arts Foundation to bring 24 concerts from their Mid-Year and December festival. The mid-year festival featured 8 concerts and the december season festival featured 16 concerts.

iCarnatic webcast the day long OVK-BACH Festival 2013 on November 16, 2013 from 9AM to 9PM.

The festival featured a panel discussion on "Contributions of Bach & OVK and their significance" by Dr. Trevor Stephenson and Chitravina Sri N Ravikiran and a vocal concert by Sri N Ravikiran accompanied by Akkarai Subbalakshmi on Violin, Sriram Natarajan on Mridangam and Balaji Chandran on Ghatam.

The event was held at Middleton Performing Arts Center

iCarnatic helped coordinate the Carnatic Music Idol USA Season 3 Midwest Preliminaries and National Finals The preliminaries were conducted on Oct 12 and Finals were conducted on Oct 26, 2013 The competition was held at the Lemont Temple.

iCarnatic along with Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple jointly present a Carnatic Vocal concert by Kalaimamani Vidwan Sanjay Subrahmanyan on Sept 21, 2013. He was accompanied by Sri.S.Varadarajan on Violin and Sri. Neyveli B. Venkatesh on Mridangam. Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan is one of the leading Carnatic Vocalist from India. The concert was held at the Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple

iCarnatic is proud to support the Youth Festival by NCYCAC for the 3rd year. This year event was held on August 31 and September 1, 2013. This all-day event was broadcast live on the internet. This NCYCAC event raised funds for VIBHA (www.vibha.org).

iCarnatic partnered with SV Temple of MN to webcast the Naadotsavam - Carnatic and Bhakti Star Competition and concerts.

Friday May 17, 2013 from 7pm

- Prayer and Group Ensembles
- Smt. Bhargavi Balasubramanian (Chitraveena) accompanied by Sri. Ethirajan and Sri. Nanda Masti
- Kum. V. Deepika & Party

Saturday May 18, 2013 from 9 am

- Competition
- Group Ensembles
- Sri.Hariharan Ravi accompanied by Sri. Nagai Sriram and Sri. Nanda Masti
- Grand Violin Duet by legend Sri. Nagai Muralidharan and Sri. Nagai Sriram accompanied by Sri. Mannargudi Easwaran, Sri. Sriram Natarajan (Kanjira) and Sri. Balaji Chandran (Ghatam)

Sunday May 19, 2013 from 9 am

- Competitions
- Grand Chitra Veena duet concert - Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena) & Ganesh (Chitraveena) accompanied by Sri. Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam) and Sri. Sriram Natarajan (Kanjira)
- Grand Finale Concert by Carnatica Brothers - Sri. K.N.Shashikiran and Sri. Ganesh accompanied by Sri. Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Sri Tanjavur Murugaboopathi (Mridangam), Sri. Nanda Masti (Kanjira), Sri. Balaji Chandran (Ghatam)

iCarnatic conducted special thematic RTP live concert by the Carnatica Brothers Sri. K. N. Shashikiran and Sri. P. Ganesh. They were accompanied by Sri. Nagai Muralidharan on Violin and Sri. Mannargudi Easwaran on Mridangam. The concert was held on May 10, 2013 at Bethany of Fox Valley Methodist Church, Aurora.

iCarnatic partnered with Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago, RR International and Cleveland Aradhana Committee to present Morning Raga by Smt. Sudha Ragunathan. The program was conducted in Lemont Temple on May 5, 2013. The program was webcast live and enabled for view on-demand.

iCarnatic broadcast several music and dance programs of Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival from March 27 to April 7, 2013. The programs were webcast live and enabled for view on-demand. In addition iCarnatic also broadcast the Music and Dance Competitions.

iCarnatic conducted the 2nd annual carnatic music festival "Margazhi in Chicago 2012". The festival featured 19 young artists from North America including 5 junior artists. The artists were selected from various states including Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota and North Carolina.

iCarnatic partnered with Charsur Arts Foundation to bring 24 concerts from their Mid-Year and December festival. The mid-year festival featured 8 concerts and the december season festival featured 16 concerts.

iCarnatic with Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple, RR International, CAIFA and Rajaveena School of music presented Carnatic Vocal Concert by Sowmya as part of All Composers Day Music Festival. She was accompanied by MS Ananthkrishnan on Violin, Neyveli Narayanan on Mridangam and K.V.Gopalakrishnan on Kanjira The concert was conducted in Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple auditorium on October 6, 2012 from 7:00pm to 10:00pm. The concert was very well attended.

iCarnatic is proud to support the Youth Festival by NCYCAC on September 1 & 2, 2012. This all-day event was broadcast live on the internet. This NCYCAC event raised funds for AIM for Seva (www.aimforseva.org).

iCarnatic joined hands with Cleveland Aradhana, Maximum Media and Jaya TV in Organizing the Mid-West preliminaries of the Carnatic Music Idol USA Competition 2012. The event was held on August 18, 2012 at Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple in Aurora, IL. The competition was for 2 categories based on age. Junior from age 5-14 and Senior from age 15-25. Twenty Six participants from Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana competed in the event and Finalists were selected for the finals held in the Bay Area.

iCarnatic broadcast 2 days of the GLAC Sarovar Festival 2012. This year broadcast included the flute concert by Prapancham Sitaraman, dance presentation "Dances of India" and concerts by young talent of North America.

iCarnatic broadcast over 80 music and dance programs of Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival between April 4-15, 2012. The programs were webcast live and enabled for view on-demand. In addition iCarnatic also broadcast the Music and Dance Competitions.

iCarnatic broadcast 2 concerts on Saturday March 24, 2012. The concerts were organized by Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple, Aurora, Illinois. The first concert was a Hindustani Sarangi Concert by Ustad Ikram Khan accompanied by Dhananjay Kunte on Tabla. The second concert was a Carnatic Flute Concert by Shantala Subramaniam accompanied by Avaneeswaran Vinu on Violin and Melakkaveri Balaji on Mridangam.

iCarnatic conducted its 1st December Season series in Chicago titled "Margazhi in Chicago". This festival featured 7 concerts by 9 artists from North America and was broadcast free on the internet. These concerts were conducted as house concerts. The following artists performed for the event:

1) Arthi Nadhan (Veena) accompanied by Ethirajan Ramanujam (Mridangam)
2) Arthi Kumar (Vocal) accompanied by Keerthana Shankar (Violin) and Athrey Nadhan (Mridangam)
3) Kamya & Keerthana Shankar (Vocal) accompanied by Sushmitha Ravikumar (Violin) and Athrey Nadhan (Mridangam)
4) Hariharan Ravi (Vocal) accompanied by Keerthana Shankar (Violin) and Ethirajan Ramanujam (Mridangam)
5) Shruthi & Shashank Subramaniam (Flute) accompanied by Keerthana Shankar (Violin) and Ethirajan Ramanujam (Mridangam)
6) Sushmitha Ravikumar (Vocal) accompanied by Dr. Prasod Ramachandran (Violin) and Athrey Nadhan (Mridangam)
7) Sutikshna Veeravalli (Vocal) accompanied by Sushmitha Ravikumar (Violin) and Ethirajan Ramanujam (Mridangam)

The concerts were well received and the event had over 300 audience overall.

 

iCarnatic broadcast 13 concerts conducted by Charsur Arts Foundation as part of their Deember Music Festival 2011. This festival was broadcast live between December 17-24, 2011 from Chennai, India and Re-Broadcast from December 20-28, 2011. The festival featured the following artists:

1. Sriranjani Santhanagopalan
2. Sumithra Vasudev
3. Ramakrishnan Murthy
4. Sangeetha Swaminathan
5. Amritha Murali
6. Nisha Rajagopalan
7. Dr Pantula Rama
8. G Ravikiran
9. Prasanna Venkatraman
10. Bharath Sundar
11. Amrutha Venkatesh
12. Raghavendra Rao
13. Sandeep Narayan

The concert was held at Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall in Chennai, India.

iCarnatic broadcasts 21 concerts over 7 days. The concert was broadcast free from India.

iCarnatic assisted Charsur Arts Foundation in their Talent Search program in USA. Three participants performed with senior accompanists from India. CAF will publish the content for audience feedback and depending on feedback, they will be provided concert opportunities during Charsur Festivals / Monthly events.

iCarnatic broadcast Carnatic Vocal Concert by Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath. This was a re-broadcast of her concert for Charsur Arts Foundation Monthly Concert Series held at Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall. The concert was broadcast free.

iCarnatic joined hands with Cleveland Aradhana, Maximum Media and Jaya TV in Organizing the Mid-West preliminaries of the Carnatic Music Idol USA Competition 2011. The event was held on September 11, 2011 at Shirdi Sai Baba Mandhir in Aurora, IL.

The competition was made up of 2 categories based on age. Junior from age 5-14 and Senior from age 15-25.

Twenty Eight participants from Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana competed in the event and Ten participants were selected for the finals held in the Bay Area.

iCarnatic is proud to support the Youth Festival by NCYCAC on September 4, 2011. This all-day event was broadcast live on the internet. This NCYCAC event was aimed at raising funds for Akshaya Trust (founded by CNN Top 10 Hero, Sri Narayanan Krishnan).

iCarnatic broadcast 8 concerts conducted by Charsur Arts Foundation as part of their Mid-Year Music Festival 2011. This festival was broadcast live between August 13-16, 2011 from Chennai, India and Re-Broadcast on August 20, 21, 27 and 28. The festival featured the following artists:

1. Sangita Kala Ratna Neela Ramgopal (Vocal) Embar S. Kannan (Violin) Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam) Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)
2. Dr. Pantula Rama (Vocal) MSN Murthy (Violin) Patri Sathishkumar (Mridangam) Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
3. Sangita Kalanidhi R Vedavalli (Vocal) R.K.Sriram Kumar (Violin) Arun Prakash (Mridangam) N Guruprasad (Ghatam)
4. Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal) M A Krishnaswamy (Violin) Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam) S Karthick (Ghatam)
5. Sangita Choodamani Sugana Purshotaman & Sangita Kala Acharya Suguna Varadachari (Vocal) Dr R Hemalatha (Violin) Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (Mridangam) Udupi Sridhar (Ghatam)
6. Sangita Choodamani O.S.Tyagarajan (Vocal) S Varadarajan (Violin) Tirchur Narendran (Mridangam) Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
7. Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal) Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin) B Ganapathiraman (Mridangam) Alathur T Rajaganesh (Kanjira)
8. Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal) Akkarai Subalakshmi (Violin) V V Ramanamurthy (Mridangam) Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

The concert was held at Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall in Chennai, India.

iCarnatic broadcast Carnatic Vocal Concert by Kum Deepti Shroff. She was accompanied by Palghat K. Sridhar on Violin and Sudhindra Rao on Mridangam. The concert was broadcast free.

The concert was held at The Hindu Temple of Triad, NC

iCarnatic broadcast the Indo-American Festival of Performing Arts - Sarovar 2011 to audience around the world. All concerts were broadcast free.

The festival featured 10 professional programs. iCarnatic broadcast 5 professional programs and the group performances.

The concert was held at Oakland University Auburn Hills, MI.

iCarnatic broadcast the 34th Cleveland Aradhana LIVE to audience across the world. Almost all programs were broadcast live. While many concerts were paid concerts, some Free concerts were also broadcast. The paid concerts were broadcast on High Definition and Free Concerts on Standard Definition.

The festival featured over 60 programs.

iCarnatic conducted Carnatic Saxophone Concert on November 20, 2010 at 7pm. The event was broadcast live and was viewed by over 90 families across US and India. The concert was held at Plainfield, IL. Sumanth website: www.sumanthswaminathan.com

iCarnatic conducted it's first live concert in the Metro Detroit area with a spectacular Violin Duo concert by A. Kanyakumari and Embar Kannan. They were accompanied on the mridangam by Srimushnam Sri. Raja Rao and on the Kanjira by Toronto Sri Karthik Venkataraman. The concert was held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

iCarnatic is proud to support the Youth Festival by NCYCAC on September 5, 2010. This all-day event was broadcast live on the internet and was watched by over 75 families. This NCYCAC event was aimed at raising funds for Sankara Netralaya.

iCarnatic broadcast the Carnatic Flute concert of Kalaimamani Sri. T.S.Sankaran. The concert was conducted by Natya Dance Theatre as part of Sri. Sankaran's 80th birthday celebrations. The concert was watched by about 80 families from various parts of the world in addition to the 300+ attendees in person.

iCarnatic conducted its second event on August 21, 2010 with a Carnatic Vocal concert by Palai Sri.C.K.Ramachandran, disciple of Dr. Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer the "Bheeshmacharya" of Carnatic Music at Chicago. He was accompanied by Sri. Prasod Ramachandran on Violin and Sri. Vinod Seetharaman on Mridangam.

iCarnatic launched on July 17, 2010 with a Carnatic Vocal Concert by Sikkil Sri. C. Gurucharan at Chicago. He was accompanied by Sri. B. U. Ganesh Prasad on Violin and Tiruvarur Sri. Vaidyanathan on Mridangam. Sikkil Gurucharan Website: http://www.sikkilgurucharan.com/