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 ...

In September 2017, I heard the Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna sing to a packed auditorium in Mumbai’s cosmopolitan locality of Bandra. The 800-odd-seat St Andrews auditorium usually features English ...

A conversation with Prerna Venkataramanan and Aditya Rajaram, the duo behind the track Metal Mohana, feels less like an interview and more like catching up with old friends. Their enthusiasm is ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...