Leher group are a bunch of musicians from the Twin Cities of Minnesota, who are attaching the wings to soar in the sky of music. Today they present a unforgettable melodious journey through Bollywood. The songs all about being in and falling in love, and the feeling that these experiences bring to us...

A message of peace, harmony and healing during these difficult times, represented by a unique combination of eastern and western culture - the fusion of Michael's Jackson's immortal poetry with the graceful movements of Bharatanatyam.

Kids will be dancing to a mashup of Indian patriotic songs from Bollywood. Costumes will be Tri color T's, Saffron , Green and White shirts with black pants.

Chaitra’s tryst with Bharatanatyam began at the young age. Her love for dance gradually changed to deep rooted passion and serious pursuit. Having undergone rigorous training under the guidance of Guru Asha Ravindra and Guru Dr. Mala Shashikanth, and mentoring in Abhinaya under Guru Preethi Bharadwaj, ever since she has bagged multiple appreciation, rewards, recognition, prizes, praises. Chaitra now explores her artistic pursuits in her home-studios in the Minneapolis and in Bangalore under the school name Samruddhi Naatya Shaale.

Today Chaitra would be presenting a Bhajan - Shyam Tori  set in Ragam - Shivaranjani; Taala - Aadi and composed by Sur Das.

In this bhajan Radha asks Krishna to give her his flute. She tries to request, demand and convinces him to give her the flute. Will she succeed?

Radha suggests Krishna why don’t we switch places? She say’s she will play the flute melodiously wearing peacock feather crown and pitamabar dress, while he will wear her bhindi and chunnari.

Radha ask’s him to carry pots of yogurt to Brindaavan and she will block his way and break the pot.

She say’s why don’t you become Radha and I as Krishna.

Such a divine love, that one cannot differentiate Krishna from Radha.

 This beautiful piece is choreographed by Guru Vaibhav Arekar and Mentored by Guru Preethi Bharadwaj

Skit presented by Young Adults/Teens of the Science of Spirituality Minneapolis meditation Center. These young kids are stressed with their student life, pressure of studies, peer pressure of competition and social isolation due to the virus etc. They are seeing sickness and death, never seen by even their parents or grandparents. They are not able to focus and are searching for meaning of life in this chaos of life. What do they come up as a solution? Lets watch this skit to find out how they are evolving to become more spiritual and getting ready for tough life ahead

Minnesota Tamil Sangam(MNTS) conducts various programs and performances to enrich the Tamil Culture, language and traditional folk arts. In this performance, our members from kids to adults showed their talent of performing a variety of traditional folk arts described below. The live folk music was played from traditional instruments like Thavil, Naayanam, Parai, Pambai and Urumi. 1. Dummy Horse Dance - Poikkaal Kuthirai. Type of dance performed with a dummy decorated horse on stills. 2. Oyilattam - (Oyil - Beauty) - Traditionally a dance where few men would stand in a row with two kerchiefs performing rhythmic steps. 3. Mayilattam - Performers wear costumes from head to toe like peacock with beak and dance. 4. Kaalaiyattam - Performers wear costumes like bull and dance for the rhythm. 5. Silambattam - Silambam is a weapon- based martial art of Tamils, originated 2000 years back. Predominantly Rattan/Bamboo staff is used with 1000’s of forms. 6. Parai - This is considered as the oldest music instrument(Hand drum) used by Tamils, and all over India by the ancient population. This was mostly used as a communication mechanism to convey messages to people and celebrations in olden days. 7. Kaichilambam - Chilambam is an ancient ornament worn in legs, this unique traditional dance form is performed by shaking the chilambam accompanied by folk music. 8. Kummi - Kummi is a folk dance with rhythmic clapping and imitating various harvest activities. MNTS welcomes all community people to watch and enjoy this energetic extravaganza!