Western instruments have long been part of Carnatic music’s landscape. The violin is credited as one of the earliest to be adapted into Carnatic concerts in the early 19th century by Baluswami ...

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, ...

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 ...

My Journey With Ghatam, Sumana Chandrasekar talks about those issues that we ponder about when we consider women and ...

For University of North Texas alumnus Aakash Sridhar, the journey to jazz — and his debut album, Revived Emotions — started with the tabla and few chances to improvise. “I was not into the concept of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hamza, a Delhi-based artist with roots in Hyderabad, says he is excited by the collaboration: “We are breaking the rules here. Carnatic music has its own identity, but we’ve placed it in a different ...