Did you perform at the festival? No, but my mentor from Peshawar, Pakistan, played at 3 a.m., and I helped them set up and tune the instruments. It was a great performance. Do you play an instrument ...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Artist and composer Christopher Janney will debut his latest work, HeartBeat: LMU, as the featured cultural event of the annual South Asian Studies Association conference at Loyola ...

The music of the Anirudh Varma Collective has a wholesome feel. You can expect the stage to be filled with artistes playing both Indian and Western instruments.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cantaloupe Music will release EVENING LIGHT: RAGA CYCLE I on March 20, 2026, marking the spring equinox and the opening chapter of composer/pianist Michael Harrison’s eight-album Raga Cycle series.