With over 10 per cent of India’s land mass, the western state of Rajasthan is the nation’s largest. City regions such as Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Udaipur and Bikaner are on the tourist trail and should kind kismet or grand design ever take you to Rajasthan, you will require reliable musical travelling companions.
23 June 2014
At the annual Alchemy celebration of things British and South Asian, Anoushka Shankar’s headlining appearance came touted as ‘A Special Show for Alchemy’.
23 June 2014
It is ten years since Ustad Vilayat Khan died but the eloquence of his playing lives on in his recordings and through his students. Ken Hunt and Dharambir Singh remember one of the great sitar players of his generation.
20 March 2014
She headlined at this year’s Darbar Festival and will soon be receiving the Sangita Kalanidhi, Carnatic music’s highest award; but this remarkable singer says that she almost drifted into music. Ken Hunt gives us the background.
16 December 2013
This energetic and engaging musician talks to Ken Hunt about his musical explorations since he first picked up a recorder at school in Bolton.
16 December 2013
Transposed Rhythm And The Saraswati Veena was the inaugural double bill of the 2013 Darbar Festival. This Indian classical music… Read More
16 December 2013
This double bill concluded the third day of the eighth Darbar Festival, held between 19 September and 22 September 2013.
16 December 2013
Continuing our series, Ken Hunt examines how Pannalal Ghosh revolutionised the humble bamboo flute.
13 September 2013
Manickam Yogeswaran is probably the most-heard South Indian vocalist on the planet ever.
13 September 2013
Call of Bangalore begins with an agile-minded, musically unafraid opening gambit. With its title slyly alluding to her birthplace, this studio album not only shows off violinist Jyotsna Srikanth’s roots but also her command of melodicism, rhythmicality and pace.
13 September 2013
