Percussionist Sameer Gupta’s RootStock Arts will present the first ever Raga Fest at Medicine for Nightmares on 24th Street this Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. Credit: Rebecca Meek For the past year, ...

A classical Indian music festival will take listeners on a 24-hour sonic journey, with the music in each hour aligned with the time of day. The Ragas Live Festival, which will begin at 7 pm on Oct. 19 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Amit Chaudhuri charts his musical journey in a new book, “Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music.” By Joshua Barone Amit Chaudhuri, an ...

Cantaloupe Music has released EVENING LIGHT: RAGA CYCLE I, a new album by composer and pianist Michael Harrison and vocalist Ina Filip. The release coincides with the spring equinox and launches an ...

I’ve enjoyed Indian music ever since the 1960s, with early lp’s from Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, two great musicians who did more to spread the art form than anybody else: Ravi by experimenting ...

From Finding the Raga, which was published last month by New York Review Books. Every raga in North Indian music has a time, and sometimes a season, of performance: it can’t, or shouldn’t, be ...

In Indian classical music, a raga is a framework for improvisation within a specific set of melodies and motifs. Charu Suri, the first Indian-born jazz composer to play their own compositions at ...

Indo-American pianist Charu Suri is known for her distinct style that blends Indian classical ragas with jazz. She says the process came about quite organically, as her exposure to both Indian music ...

Ahead of his Mumbai concert at Ravindra Natya Mandir on July 12, the classical vocalist talks rare ragas, musical honesty, and the science behind dawn melodies Indian classical music has that ...