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 ...

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, ...

On the sixth day of Margazhi, sweet notes of a melody exploring the shankarabharanam raagam drifted out from Sathyanarayanan Krishnababu’s music studio in Chennai. Inside the room, Keyboard Sathya, as ...

The app's home page shows three main categories: Carnatic, Hindustani, and Fusion Wake up to a full-throated rendition of the Sri Venkateshwara Suprabhatam by M.S. Subbulakshmi. Or the soft strains of ...

The results of Carnatic Thukkada – instrumental and Carnatic Thukkada – vocal in The Hindu Margazhi Music Contest have been released. A total of 654 entries were received under the Krithi and Thukkada ...

"I have never heard this song before,” an elderly audience member told me right after my recent concert in Bengaluru. The song he was referring to was Athi Saavadana, composed by the 17th century ...

Going by the names of the two major traditions of Hindustani music — Khayal and Dhrupad — Carnatic music might be called ‘Kriti’ after the dominant musical form in practice. Or, at an earlier period, ...

Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh was in Delhi last week to receive the prestigious Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan award; joining an exclusive club of only 11 other artists including late Vidwan Balamurali Krishna, and ...

Ajazz/Carnatic guitarist and composer of repute, R.Prasanna started playing the instrument when he was very young. Today, he is known as one of the most innovative guitarists in the country, who has ...