Ugadi is the celebration of new beginnings. It’s a time of hope, of change and evolution toward something better and the most auspicious festival for all of us. We would like to make some changes this year to the way these celebrations have been organized traditionally, keeping in view the general feedback we have received so far, to cut the cost to the TCA treasury and last but not least, to prove that TCA stands to serve and recognize the local artists and local talent first.

Houston has its own Celebrities

As has been done in the past, we will not be bringing in any celebrity from India for this occasion. We are confident that our children, youth and adult artists can provide us with wholesome, meaningful entertainment for this event.

Preference to group performances

We will be giving preference to group performances rather than solos, in order to encourage more participation and give opportunity to more number of participants.

Dinner break

We observed in the past that dinner is served while the performances or chief guests honoring are going on. As a way of showing respect to the performers and other dignitaries on stage, we will be allotting 1 hour break for dinner. We will not schedule any group performances during this time but welcome solo performers to entertain the audience during this time if they would like to.

Reduced Time to Speeches

Overall time spent on guest speeches or speeches by committee and also on felicitations will be limited to 30 mins. We will make sure that the programs we present are enthralling and entertaining to all the age groups.

Discounted ticket prices

Because we are not bringing Artist(s) from India, we would like to share the savings with our community. we are offering discounted (25%) tickets for those who buy Ugadi tickets online. We request the community to buy tickets online and utilize this opportunity. This will also help reduce long queues at the counter on the day of Ugadi and make overall experience pleasant for everybody.

Online tickets are available at sulekha.com and can be purchased by clicking the following URL. - Click Here

We hope you all appreciate the above changes and support us in our new initiatives and join us in making Ugadi 2018 a grand success and a memorable one.