Great Lakes Aradhana Committee

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"nAda tanumanisha shankaram namAmi mE manasA shirasA"

2025 Membership: 'Back to Basics' rAma bhakti sAmrAjyam EmAnavula kabbenO manasA

GLAC is a member based organization with one of the best programming in the country! Our yearly rate is approx one family concert rate! Over the past decade, our membership rates has stayed around same even though our operating costs have gone up by almost 50% -- augmenting the difference with grants, corporate sponsorship, advertisements and collaborations. Show your support by becoming a member EVEN if you think you can't attend all concerts. Support GLAC to support Music in Michigan!

2025 TRIBUTES | #Dikshitar250 | T. Muktha | Puranam Purushottama Sastri | Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy

GLAC 2025 SEASON: (Events are free for paid patrons)

Mar TBD: Pancharatnam Practice session led by Sri Madurai Sundar (Balaji Temple) (TBA)
Mar 30: Saketharaman, Kamalakiran, Sai Giridhar, Sowmiya Narayanan (Balaji Temple) 3pm
Mar 30: Yuva Kala Sarovar Award (Balaji Temple) 3pm
Apr 04: Suryagayathri in Detroit (Balaji Temple) 7pm
Apr 16-27: Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival
May TBD: #Detroit4Flint Community Service - Annual Flint Cleanup (Kasi Temple, Flint)
May 03: Michigan Thyagaraja Aradhana (Kasi Temple, Flint)
May 03: Akkarai Sisters, S Subhalakshmi and S Sornalatha - First time in Michigan
May 10: GFA Special Weekend - Awards, Carnatica Brothers (SVBF)
May 11: GFA Special Weekend - Madurai Sundar Concert (SVBF)
May 11: Detroit Dance Aradhana : NA Dance & music festival (Towsley Auditorium) 2:00pm
May 18-21: Dushyant Sridhar Upanyasam (Balaji Temple)
May 31: Ramana Balachandran, Trichy Sankaran, Balaji Chandran (MSNA, Lansing)
May TBD: Asian Festival of Michigan (Fountain Walk, Novi)
Aug TBD: Sri Ganapathy Sachidananda Swamy in Detroit (TBA)
June 21: Spicy Strings - Veena Gayathri Raj, Srikanth Duraiswamy 6:30pm (Hanuman Temple) (FREE)
Sep 20: 35th Annual Navaratri Festival of Michigan (Bharatiya Temple) 12:30pm
Oct 15-22: Navaratri Golu / GLAC Golu Galatta - An Online Golu Contest (Canceled)
Oct 16: First Novi Diwali Fest - Chenda, Flute Jugalbandhi 5pm
Oct 18: Vivek Moozhikulam - First time in MI SV Temple 5pm
Nov 14 : TVS Mahadevan - First time in MI Bharatiya Temple 6pm
Dec : Chembai Sangeetholsavam in Detroit - Parashakti Temple (TBA)

GLAC - A Nobility Champion during COVID
Karunā for Corona! An Online Fundraising Festival feat Detroi's Advaita Dasa with 20+ artistes.
Teens supporting PPEs for hospitals in Detroit & Chennai: Click here for the article.
Supporting musicians in India with Summer Music Festival 'Paarambaryam'

GLAC is a volunteer run organization giving back to the art ecosystem & supporting the communities of Detroit, Chennai & Flint! With one foot in our 35year heritage and our right foot forward into the future; GLAC does fundraisers like #Detroit4Chennai GLAC volunteers help cleanup Flint. #Detroit4Flint collecting samples for the Susan B Komen Tissue Bank in Detroit. #GLAC4KTB

Chennai is known as the Detroit of India & with classical music, GLAC has made Detroit, the Chennai of USA.

Padmashree Hariharan sporting a GLAC Tshirt. All members get a FREE Tshirt (one per family, while supplies last)

Our Mission & Vision

Vanakkam, Vandanam, Susvaagatam, Namaste and Welcome to GLAC!

The Great Lakes Aradhana Committee or GLAC is a premier non-profit organization committed to preserving, presenting and promoting arts in the Great Lakes region.

Our mission is to promote classical arts in our community for the cause of enrichment, participation and fellowship for art aficionados in Michigan by bringing quality events on a regular basis with a bias on membership satisfaction. GLAC helps the community in having arts programs that meet the needs of an aging population, providing opportunities in the arts for people with disabilities, having programs for migrant workers and immigrants and programs on arts in healing/healthcare programs.

GLAC strives in perpetuating the unique cultural heritage into the mainstream American diaspora with it's events well attended by people of all ethnicities from the Great Lakes states of the USA and Canada.

Click here for an overview of GLAC -- presented at the Detroit Cultural Exchange Network -- Detroit CEN.

Our History

GLAC was originally founded in 1985 and is the oldest and largest Indo-American art organizations in Michigan. It was formally incorporated in 2006 as a non-profit art resource in SE Michigan by a group of people who truly appreciate, enjoy and want to promote one of the greatest cultural traditions which has been passed down over the generations.

Today, GLAC is a Registered Tax-Exempt 501©(3) Non-Profit Organization in the State of Michigan. GLAC is supported by the Michigan Council for Cultural Affairs, the Detroit Recreational Department, Arab American National Museum and The Carr Center of Detroit.

Past Seasons

GLAC In the news: GLAC was featured in Visit Detroit Magazine (available in newstands and at the Detroit Metro Airport).
Another fine example of how GLAC provides a golden platform for our musicians by taking Indian Music into the mainstream.
'Visit Detroit' Magazine, not only has local & national reach, caters to _thousands of travelers visiting the Detroit Metro Airport everyday!