iCarnatic Summer Music and Dance Festival is scheduled on August 15 & 16, 2026.

The venue for the festival is Sai Samsthan USA, 1101 Foran Ln, Aurora, IL 60506

We welcome applications from ameteur artists in Carnatic music, Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dance forms to perform in the festival before May 15, 2026.

Please follow instructions in Festival Participation page.

iCarnatic is proud to be the official streaming partner for the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival 2026.

The festival will be held from April 1 to April 12, 2026 at the Cleveland State University. The schedule of concerts and events is available at Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival website.

iCarnatic will be streaming the concerts live and also making them available on demand for rasikas across the world. You can purchase your ticket for the live stream and on-demand from PayPal link below. The ticket price is $200 for the entire festival.

• Once you purchase your ticket, you will receive an email with the links to view the concerts live and on-demand.
• Please do note that live webcast relies on internet connectivity at the venue. While we have not had much difficulties in the past, such probability does exist!
• The competitions will not be live streamed nor made available on demand.
• We will be streaming the concerts from Waetjen Auditorium and Drinko Recital Hall. We will try to stream the Wolstein Center programs. The comfort inn concerts will not be streamed.

Thanks to the support of rasikas, students and like minded organizations, iCarnatic has

• Broadcast over 2000 concerts to audience across the world
• Conducted 12 Annual Margazhi festivals
• Conducted 9 Annual Summer Music & Dance Festivals
• Published online Chennai Music Schedule for 2025

Our sincere thanks to our patrons and viewers who have supported us.

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