Veena Gaanam 2025 

Veena , Vocal & Percussion ensemble for Cleveland Araadhana 2025 

@ Waetjen Auditorium Music Building of Cleveland State University,  2001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44115 

You Tube Link : https://youtu.be/UdqzobZow78

Smt Nirmala Rajasekar - Ensemble Director

Sri Thanjavur Murugaboopathy - Ensemble Co-Director

Performance : Apr 20th Sunday , 2:15 US Eastern Time

💐🙏🏼 "This is a movement, not a concert"

Students from across USA , representing 17 of 52 states (AR, CA, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, MA, MD, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, TX, VA); 

26 Vainikas, 17 Vocalists, 8 Percussionists

Here are the credits for this year's Veena Gaanam 2025 🙏🏼

💐 Rooms Setup: Vaishali aunty, Nandhini aunty, Lakshmi aunty, Jaya aunty, Srinikethan, Akruti, Shruthi, Arjun, Madhu

💐 Audio Set up: Aditya uncle, Vaishali aunty,  Nandhini aunty, Lakshmi aunty, Jaya aunty, Padma aunty, young artists of VG 

💐 Zoom admin: Vaishali aunty, Lakshmi aunty, Padma aunty, Lalitha aunty....whoever sat next to laptop

💐 Scripts : Srinidhi akka, Srinikethan, Shruthi, Saanvi

💐 Rehearsal Notes and Recordings : Nandhini aunty , Jaya aunty, Vaishali aunty, Vidya aunty

💐 Costume: Jeyashree aunty and family in India, Vaishali aunty and family in India,  Bhoopathy uncle,Jasmine Tailors Chennai, Nirmala aunty

💐 Hotel block: Padma aunty, Satya uncle 

💐 Rides: Aditya uncle, Satya uncle, Padma aunty, Ramakrishna uncle, Ashok uncle

💐 Time keepers : Lalita aunty, Revathi aunty

💐 Video and Pictures : Aditya uncle, Jaya aunty, Maheshwari Aunty, Vaishali aunty, Raman tatha, Lalitha Bala aunty

💐 Badges : Padma aunty,  Nirmala aunty

💐 Medals planning, design, transportation,  distribution: Ashok Kumar uncle, Carnatica Chennai, Charath Mohan design, Chennai, VV Sundaram sir, Nirmala aunty

Gurus :

🙏 Vocal and Veena: Smt. Nirmala Rajeskar, Dr.R.S.Jayalakshmi, Smt. Jayashree Aravind, Smt. Prabhavathi Vijayaraghavan, Smt. Varalakshmi, Smt.Villianur.G.Lalitha, Sri Mudikondan Ramesh, Dr. Balu Balasubrahmaniyan, Sandhya R, Shruthi Rajasekar, Vidya Ramachandhiramani

*Late Smt. M. Vasantha, *Late Smt. Kalpakkam Swaminathan 

🙏 Percussion: 

Sri. Muruga Bhoopathi, Dr. Patri Satish Kumar, Dr. PK Swaminathan, Sri Ganesh Kumar, Sri. Sriram Natarajan, Sri. Sadgurucharan

💐 We thank all families for contributing time, effort  and money to uplifting the Saraswathi Veena , Mridangam and Carnatic classical music this year by joining Veena Gaanam 2025!