In Carnatic music, concerts with instrumentalist headliners such as the veena, flute or violin are a small fraction of performances at most music festivals, including the biggest one of them all the ...

At a modest house in Plymouth, the best veena player in North America goes about her busy schedule. Amid teaching a select set of students and organizing her global concert itinerary — including a ...

Greek researcher and Indophile Konstantinos Kalaitzis has visited India 45 times in the last three decades. He has visited every state and Union Territory in search of classical and folk music, and ...

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not seem ...

Born into a family that breathes Carnatic music, the melodious cadences of ragas seeped into USA-based Indian-American composer Shanker Krishnan’s system quite early in life. The legendary vocalist ...

The writer — an entrepreneur, founder of Airdeccan, a retired Captain Of Indian Army, an author of a best seller "Simplifly" , a farmer and a 'failed' politician. When art and activism are at cross ...

Mohana Priya Anand picked up the veena over 20 years ago and continues to play it to this day. (Moganraj Villavan @ FMT Lifestyle pic) The veena is among the oldest instruments used in the subgenre of ...

The occasional pair of shoulders could be seen swaying among the hundreds gathered in the audience, as heads nodded and feet tapped to the rhythm of percussion and vocals of the Indian classical art ...

In October 2022, three Carnatic musicians — G Ravi Kiran, Rithvik Raja and Vignesh Ishvar — recorded a Muthuswami Dikshitar composition in the raga Gamakakriya, and put out a video. This piece of ...

A newcomer to the Capital District is dedicating herself to introducing a classical music form largely unfamiliar to Western ears: an ancient musical tradition from southern India. Vocalist Vidya ...

Carnatic musician Saketharaman will be presenting a concert tomorrow, which will be about advocating egalitarianism through music. Carnatic musician Saketharaman will be presenting a concert tomorrow, ...