It is that time of the year in Chennai when the city goes Carnatic. The December event, popularly called the Margazhi music season after the Tamil month, is only four years from completing a century.

At a modest house in Plymouth, the best veena player in North America goes about her busy schedule. Amid teaching a select set of students and organizing her global concert itinerary — including a ...

"I have never heard this song before,” an elderly audience member told me right after my recent concert in Bengaluru. The song he was referring to was Athi Saavadana, composed by the 17th century ...

In a hall resonant with reverence, rare echoes from the bygone era of Carnatic music came alive. At Narada Gana Sabha, in the presence of Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti, veteran Carnatic vocalist Trichur V ...

Meet ‘Hathaani’, a robotic violinist created by the Tiruchi-born engineer-musician Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan. The name Hathaani reflects Raghavasimhan’s childhood passion for Carnatic violin and ...

For decades, our city has quietly nurtured an eclectic but deeply committed community of classical musicians — artistes who straddle carnatic, hindustani, folk traditions and increasingly, ...