Learn about the history, and future, of the musical art form. Devesh Chandra started playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) at age three, learning from the sounds of Northern Indian classical music ...

He introduced the tabla — a pair of hand drums that is the main percussion instrument in Indian classical music — to global audiences. Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Zakir Hussain, one of India's most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73. The Indian classical music ...

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain are classical Indian music gurus. Both musicians are arguably the most accomplished musicians of their kind, not just India, but the world. On April 7 at ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A celebration of Indian Classical Music unlike any other is happening in Chicago. The yearly "Ragamala" concert begins Friday night at the Chicago Cultural Center, and it goes all ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK PM Keir Starmer were impressed by Pandit Naviin Gandharv's performance at Rajbhavan, featuring his father's invention, the Belabaharr. Gandharv's fusion of Indian ...

Onstage at Ragamala 2018, from left: Ganapathi Ranganathan on kanjira, Patri Satish Kumar on mridangam, and Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena Credit: Courtesy of the City of Chicago In fall 2013, ...

Jyothsna Sainath, rehearsing on the black floor of her vinyl-padded studio in her Salt Lake City home, is a picture of grace. Through a window in the studio space, one gets a view of the green trees ...

Indian classical Ragas can influence brain activity, a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT-Mandi), in collaboration with IIT Kanpur, revealed. The study, published in ...

Best I can tell—by roaming the vaguely definitive ether known as cyberspace—the term “jugalbandhi” means “entwined twins” and refers to a musical duet, which makes perfect sense for this concert: a ...