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.

For hundreds of centuries, raga has formed the backbone of Indian classical music, offering a guideline for musicians to improvise when performed live. Ragas—which roughly translates to “coloring”—are ...

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 ...

First installment of eight-album series arrives March 20; live performance set for Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival.

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 ...

Musician Shanker Krishnan unveils 'Confluence: Raga and Counterpoint,' a unique album blending Carnatic and Western classical ...

one a trailblazing musical collective, the other the scion of a great musical dynasty. Brooklyn Raga Massive performs Terry Riley's "In C" on Friday, October 6, 2017, 8:00 p.m. at (le) poisson rouge, ...

Kale, steeped in the formidable lineage of Pt Jitendra Abhisheki, was clear that the core principles of raagdhari music would ...

Globally acclaimed pianist and composer Charu Suri only discovered jazz four years ago. Suri, who kicks off a four-night residency at Detroit’s Cliff Bell’s jazz club Thursday, March 7, had been a ...

Jazz and Indian ragas share common ground in their traditional use of improvisation. They are often talked about in compatible terms, but Ravi Shankar, for one, did not believe that ragas could be ...