Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and ...

Recently, a concert was held in Mumbai to celebrate the legacy of sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan. Among many others, Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan, along with his wife and actress Aishwarya Rai, ...

Originally, the term ‘gharana’ referred to a khaandaan or family of professional musicians with successive generations involved in the performance and teaching of a specific style of Hindustani vocal ...

Get ready for Instrumentalists, a platform to celebrate Indian classical instruments. Initiated by First Edition Arts (FEA) in association with G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture, the debut ...

Bengal Foundation arranged an instrumental performance at the café, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka on January 13. The event featured tabla performance by Arif Khan, a descendent of Ustad Vilayat ...

Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has wowed audience time and time again. Now, a festival in town is giving visitors a glimpse of the traditional guru-shishya parampara. At the three-day fest, Diksha ...

Alam Khan is a renowned sarod player who will perform an evening of North Indian classical (hindustani sangit) ragas in Utah. Alam joined us in studio with more on the instrument and a song. He ...

Arnab Bhattacharya, a young talent in Sarod, drew his inspiration at a tender age from his father Sri Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya. Arnab’s father introduced him to the world of Hindusthani (NorthIndian) ...