Every year, as the December Carnatic music season picks up momentum, a frequent topic of discussion is the place of sahitya in Carnatic music. Is sahitya central or secondary? Instrumentalists of high ...

Among the new experiments is Band Cooum, comprising singer Susha, violinist Shreya Devnath, and percussionist Praveen Sparsh ...

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 ...

Born into a family that breathes Carnatic music, the melodious cadences of ragas seeped into USA-based Indian-American ...

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 ...

It was watching a neighbour playing the guitar, that attracted jazz/Carnatic guitarist to the instrument, when Prasanna was just a toddler. Ajazz/Carnatic guitarist and composer of repute, R.Prasanna ...

"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 ...

BENGALURU: Come Monday and metro users will be swaying gently to Carnatic music as they wait for the train to arrive. A similar initiative was taken up by BMRCL (Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation ...

Imagine this scenario: There is a vast open ground with a stage erected at the centre. A Christian singer from the fishing community in Kanyakumari is rendering the composition of a Dalit poet set to ...

The romantic view of music is that it is divine, soul-stirring and above shallow commercialism. Wrong. In today’s Carnatic music world, lots of things that have nothing to do with music matter.

Well-known Carnatic singer TM Krishna received the Ramon Magsaysay award for his contribution to music and for bringing about “social inclusiveness in culture”. Carnatic singer TM Krishna from Chennai ...