Ajay Menon immigrated to the U.S. from India twenty years ago. He has found it’s hard to teach his nine-year old daughter Annika the traditions he grew up with. Menon says other Indian families have similar struggles, so his organization is throwing a big festival this weekend in Aurora. It’s called the Rocky Mountain Thyagaraja Utsavam, and this is the event's fifth year. Ryan Warner talks with Ajay Menon.
Click here to see a schedule for Rocky Mountain Thyagaraja Utsavam, which is free and open to the public.
[Photo: Courtesy of Colorado Fine Arts Association, of the 2011 Rocky Mountain Thyagaraja Utsavam]
[Photo: Courtesy of Colorado Fine Arts Association, of barathanatyam dancer Priyadarsini Govind.]
