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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In her Philadelphia home where her teaching school is also based, Kiranavali Vidyasankar, Carnatic musician, teacher and writer, is putting the final touches to her forthcoming music programme.

KOCHI: Carnatic music has a coveted position in the hearts of classical music aficionados. Now, imagine Carnatic songs being rendered in Sanskrit and Tamil. Niranjana Rema, a musician based in Idukki ...

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 ...

Minister for External Affairs S.M. Krishna will inaugurate ‘Vadya Vaibhava’, a five-day instrumental music festival, at Gayana Samaja on Saturday. “This is the first year that we are organising a ...

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, ...

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.