Veena Gaanam 2026
Veena , Vocal & Percussion ensemble for Cleveland Araadhana 2026
@ Waetjen Auditorium Music Building of Cleveland State University, 2001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44115
Performance : Apr 5th Sunday , 2:15 US Eastern Time
Smt Nirmala Rajasekar - Ensemble Director
Sri Thanjavur Murugaboopathy - Ensemble Co-Director
Students from across USA , Percussionists 6 | Vainikas 34 | Vocalists 36| Grand Total 76
State Participating from: Students from across USA , representing 13 of 52 states
AR | CA | FL | GA | IA | MN | NC | NJ | NY | OH |OR | TX |VA
Gurus :
🙏 Vocal and Veena: Smt. Nirmala Rajeskar, Dr.R.S.Jayalakshmi, Dr. Renganatha Sharma, Dr. Usha Prasad, Smt. Chandrika Gopalan, Smt. Haripriya Govardhanam, Smt. Hema Balasubramaniam, Smt. Lalitha Kunapuli, Smt. Nivedita SivaRaj, Smt. Sandhya Ramaswamy, Smt. Shyamala Vinod, Smt. Srilakshmi Akella, Smt. Varalakshmi Vijayaraghavan, Smt. Villianur G. Lalitha, Sri. Jyothishmathi Sheejith, Sri. Kumbakonam Jayaraman, Sri. Lalit Subramanian, Sri. Maharajapuram Ramachandram, Sri. Satyanarayana Puchha, Sri. Srivishnu Pasumarthy, Sri. T.N.Arunagiri, Sri. Vishnu Pasumarthy, Kum. Sai Samyuktha Shankar, Kum. Shruthi Rajasekar, Kum. Srinidhi Puchha
*Late Ms. Kamala Sankaran
🙏 Percussion:
Sri. Muruga Bhoopathi, Sri. Burra Sriram, Sri. Ganesh Kumar, Sri. Natarajan Srinivasan, Sri. Sriram Natarajan
Here are some of the credits for this year's Veena Gaanam 2026 🙏🏼
💐 Rooms Setup: Aditya uncle, Nandhini aunty, Srinikethan, Akshaya, Sowrabha aunty, Pavithra aunty
💐 Audio Set up: Aditya uncle, Nandhini aunty, Padma aunty, young artists of VG
💐 Zoom admin: Padma aunty, Nandhini aunty, Prasanna aunty, Aadi ....whoever sat next to laptop
💐 Scripts and Mentoring Practice Sesisons : Srinidhi akka, Vani akka, Vidya aunty
💐 Rehearsal Notes and Recordings : Nandhini aunty
💐 Costume: Revathy aunty, Anu aunty (Chennai) , Vidya aunty, Sharmila aunty
💐 Hotel block: Padma aunty
💐 Rides: Satya uncle, Sandeep uncle, Padma aunty, Ramakrishna uncle, Ashok uncle, Jayanthi aunty
💐 Time keepers : Lalita aunty, Vidya aunty
💐 Video and Pictures : Ravi KVR, Anant uncle
💐 Badges : Padma aunty
💐 Medals planning, design, transportation, distribution: Ashok Kumar uncle, Carnatica Chennai, Nirmala aunty
💐 Food & Snacks : Narayanan uncle, Chitra aunty, Lavanya aunty , Savi aunty, Vaness aunty, Ponni aunty, Pavithra aunty, Renuka aunty, Jayanthi aunty, Shriya aunty, Manjula aunty, Shylaja aunty, Deepa aunty
💐 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 2026!