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 ...

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 violinist R.K. Shriram Kumar reflects on his artistic lineage, women’s contributions to the art, and the spirit 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 ...

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

While Carnatic music follows a set of ragas which are dedicated to God, Hindustani is more receptive to innovation. At a recent concert, a jugalbandhi of Carnatic and Hindustani, both genres of music ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...