Assembly Member Steven Raga hosted Filipino and Hispanic heritage celebrations in October, celebrating two of the most-represented cultures in Assembly ...

WHY: Xpress asked Shabda Kahn, what is unique about Raga music and the experience that it offers listeners? Shabda Kahn: Here is a quote from my grand teacher, Hazrat Inayat Khan, that answers the ...

The stars of classical Indian music will perform for 24 straight hours at Drexel University starting Saturday night. The round-the-clock Raga Samay Festival might perplex some “world music” ...

NEW YORK - Music is rarely the subject of news from Afghanistan. War, terrorism, corruption, and other such topics have dominated the headlines. And if the Taliban - who outlawed all music save ...

Drexel University’s Main Building will be the site for the first 24-hour North Indian Hindustani classical music concert, the Raga Samay Festival, to take place in the Western Hemisphere in decades.

Sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee and progressive rock icon Steven Wilson united Hindustani classical and progressive rock in ...

The senior flautist, who has done his research in the structural evolution of the instrument, talks about the spiritual, ...

Raga enthusiasts and curious students got their fill of the traditional Indian musical idiom during a Saturday performance by world-renowned sitar player Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan. Parvez, accompanied ...

Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical music, and how their function compares to scales and rhythms in Western classical music. Host Scott Yoo then ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — As the world gets smaller and more accessible, deep-rooted musical traditions can be shared more readily between musicians of different disciplines. The public has a chance to ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

You would be excused for suspecting there’s a secret subtext to A Man About a Horse (ECM). Minnesotan guitarist Steve Tibbetts admits that the ebbing and flowing compositions, held together by ...