For 35 years, O.S. Arun has been a professional singer of Carnatic music, a classical genre popular in South India. It's an embellished form of singing frequently backed by the tanpura, a long-necked, ...
Meet Guitar Prasanna, a musician extraordinaire. On September 20, at 5.30pm, his guitar will play the sublime strains of the revered Carnatic trinity Tyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shyama Shastri. Two hours ...
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 year is 2013. The location, Thiruvaiyaru in Thanjavur, the venue of a historic annual music festival honouring poet-composer Thyagaraja. It is the 150th year of the festival and an electrifying ...
Having grown up on, and studied Carnatic music in Mumbai, Shanker Krishnan discovered a new and a different world, once he was at the University of California, Berkeley (for a course in applied ...
Once celebrated Carnatic instruments such as the morsing and the gethu vadyam are in need of a resurrection today The concert was nearly six hours long, with the ‘thani avarthanam’ itself lasting for ...
Fresh off the release of his new single Mihai — a powerful collaboration with Carnatic percussionist Dr. R. Shrikant — Hamza Rahimtula continues to push the boundaries of East-West musical fusion.
Meet Guitar Prasanna, a musician extraordinaire. On September 20, at 5.30pm, his guitar will play the sublime strains of the revered Carnatic trinity Tyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shyama Shastri. Two hours ...