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 ...

Bengaluru is fostering a new generation of carnatic musicians who are boldly tackling difficult conversations around the art ...

In a concert ecosystem increasingly shaped by microphones, mixers and monitor speakers, Soulfest 2025 arrives with a radical proposition: just turn everything o ...

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 ...

Rithvik Raja, among the younger stars of the Carnatic vocal scene, has an astonishing estimate to share. Of the around 1,000 Carnatic classical concerts scheduled in Chennai this festive season, close ...

It is the second half of a Carnatic music concert. Vocalists Ranjani and Gayatri are on stage. Very often, the auditorium gradually empties after the taniyavarthanam (where percussionists flaunt their ...

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 ...

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, ...

With virtual concerts becoming the norm during the pandemic, and given the reach of the digital medium, vocalist Sakethraman thinks it is a good time to help millennials connect with Carnatic music.