Srinagar, Oct 12 (IANS) Music is deep-rooted in the living paradise of Kashmir. It signifies its cultural glories and not just as means of entertainment and leisure, but as a central part of heritage.

Filmmaker Danish Renzu has launched Renzu Music, a label focused on bringing Kashmiri music to mainstream audiences through collaborations with established artists and emerging local talent. The label ...

The growing influence of international music on traditional Kashmiri music has stirred a hot debate in Kashmir. There is no doubt that during the last decade western musical instruments like guitar, ...

The 29-year-old’s bluesy debut album almost didn’t get made because of a communications blackout. He talks about utopia, the Kashmiri spirit and the fight for freedom of expression ‘If someone like ...

Jaipur witnesses a mesmerising Kashmir–Rajasthan folk fusion ...

Internet has been a surprise saviour of Kashmir's traditional music. It was an era of golden age for the Kashmiri singers of Chakker and Sufiyana. The names of the singers of that era still stir a ...

Singer-songwriter Vibha Saraf’s memories of her house in Kashmir are few and precious. “I remember the staircase, the telephone, the bridge...my house was next to a river,” she recalls her ancestral ...

From Raj Begum’s timeless classics to Masrat Un Nissa’s modern renditions, Danish Renzu’s film and recent initiatives are bringing Kashmiri folk music to a wider national and international audience ...

Yawar Abdal, a Kashmiri musician, wants to spread the message of love, harmony and peace through the words of famous poets. Armed with just a guitar and a song playing on his lips, this 24-year-old ...

Named Qarar (Solace), the three-hour (6-9 pm) concert on Sunday by Kashmiri vocalists and instrumentalists on Facebook will try to cheer people up. The famed Kashmiri music artists are coming together ...