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 ...

If the tradition of Carnatic music is continuing it is because of the countless number of music teachers who are introducing the young generation to the rich treasure. One of the prominent teachers is ...

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 ...

Anxiety about the future, familiarity of the present and nostalgia about the past is a favourite parlour game in the classical arts world, especially Carnatic music. In politics there was the anxious ...

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, ...

"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 ...

Through fretless guitars and portable veenas, some Bengaluru-based artists have been instrumental in helping Carnatic music evolve and enhance its importance in a digitised world. Sampagodu and many ...

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 ...

The United States of America and India lie on opposite sides of the globe. When it’s noon here, it’s midnight there. It was not until commercial air travel took off in the 20th century that America ...