Watch: The village that kept Thyagaraja’s music alive

Every January, the quiescent temple municipality of Thiruvaiyaru, successful Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district, comes live with music. This yearly pilgrimage centres connected the Thyagaraja temple. It is present that Saint Thyagaraja attained Jeeva Samadhi. Each year, connected the time of his samadhi, musicians assemble to render the Saint’s Pancharatna Kritis successful a ritual known arsenic the Thyagaraja Aradhana.