Some musical performances are so beautiful that they have the power to calm one’s mind. And the Internet is filled with videos that perfectly fit that description. One such clip featuring a man ...

Sukanya Ramgopal has been asked more times than she could care to remember what it is like to be the first woman ghatam player in the Carnatic music tradition. Of course it has not been easy, but the ...

Manohar Gurung (Bobby) is the first Ghatam (earth pot) player in Nepal. He went all the way to Chennai, India and learned the art of playing ghatam at Srijaya Ganesh Tala Vadya Vidyalaya. His guru was ...

The musician has been using his time during the lockdown to experiment with ghatam and has named his venture, Layanubhava. The video of ghatam artiste Vazhapally R Krishnakumar’s performance of the ...

Since June, Ed Sheeran’s fans in India have been hooked to Sapphire, listening to it on a loop. But what if we said that the chartbuster’s India connection goes beyond Arijit Singh, Shah Rukh Khan, ...

When percussionist Ganesh Murali Iyer was asked to fly down to Goa for a recording session, all he knew was that it involved a UK-based artist. The brief was deliberately vague, leaving him to wonder ...

When Vikku Vinayakram walks on to the stage, you don’t just get ready to listen to him play. You get ready to watch and feel his performance too. The man and his humble ghatam might look very simple, ...

Like everything else in the pandemic, Carnatic music too has pivoted to a more digital way of being. An on-demand streaming of a ghatam ensemble this weekend continues this trend. Part of an online ...

Ilia Rogatchevski speaks to Polish multi-instrumentalist Wacław Zimpel and master ghatam player Giridhar Udupa about their parallel journeys through music, and their combination as "interstellar folk" ...

Sukkanya Ramgopal has been consumed by rhythm as far back as she can remember. Refusing to be cowed down by the many rules of the Carnatic music tradition in Chennai, she began learning the mridangam ...

It was at a kutcheri in Kumbakonam where Ariyakkudi Ramanuja Iyengar was scheduled to perform accompanied by T.N. Krishnan and Palakkad Mani Iyer. Thetakudi Harihara Sarma approached Ramanuja Iyengar ...