Care Earth Trust, in association with the TN Forest department and Madras Photo Bloggers, brings the 7th edition of the Marghazi season birdwatching event.

In a concert ecosystem increasingly shaped by microphones, mixers and monitor speakers, Soulfest 2025 arrives with a radical proposition: just turn everything o ...

Bengaluru’s artistic ecosystem supports a diverse range of artistes, from the new age vibrancy to the eons of heritage that ...

Having grown up on, and studied Carnatic music in Mumbai, Shanker Krishnan discovered a new and a different world, once he was at the University of California, Berkeley (for a course in applied ...

Born into a family that breathes Carnatic music, the melodious cadences of ragas seeped into USA-based Indian-American composer Shanker Krishnan’s system quite early in life. His guru, Brindamma, left ...

Meet Guitar Prasanna, a musician extraordinaire. On September 20, at 5.30pm, his guitar will play the sublime strains of the revered Carnatic trinity Tyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shyama Shastri. Two hours ...

Fresh off the release of his new single Mihai — a powerful collaboration with Carnatic percussionist Dr. R. Shrikant — Hamza Rahimtula continues to push the boundaries of East-West musical fusion.

Sabhas are the concert halls where the connoisseurs of Carnatic music in Chennai city go to listen. Kuppams are where poor people struggle to make a living and have no access to classical music. TM ...

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 ...

Once celebrated Carnatic instruments such as the morsing and the gethu vadyam are in need of a resurrection today The concert was nearly six hours long, with the ‘thani avarthanam’ itself lasting for ...

Have you ever found yourself grooving to a fleeting sitar section or a tabla rhythm that sat in the back of the mix in your favourite Bollywood tracks? These age-old instruments have long been ...

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not seem ...