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An interview with Parvathy Baul, conducted by David Ellenbogen, produced with the support of SACSA. for the Ragas Live Festival Parvathy Baul is a practitioner, performer and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal, India. She is also an instrumentalist, storyteller and painter.   She has performed in over forty countries, including such prestigious concert halls and music festivals as the Noh T...

The opening set of the Ragas Live Festival 2021.  Subscribe for weekly updates with the following 24 sets...

This first live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Cape Town, South Africa Derek Gripper - Guitar Second live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Dr. Toumani Diabate - kora Ahmed Diabate - kora Balla Diabate - kora

This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Rubin Museum of Art Arun Ramamurthy - violin Jay Gandhi - bansuri Vivek Pandya - tabla Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan - mridangam

This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Mangily, Madagascar Monika Njava: voice, percussion Teta: guitar, voice Jean Piso: accordion, voice

This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal Prince Nepali - sarangi Vibha Saran Nepali - tabla

This live set is from Ragas Live Festival 2020 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Vikku Vinayakaram  - ghatam V. Selvaganesh  - drum kit Swaminathan - Kanjira, konnokol

This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Mysore, Karnataka, India. Mysore Nagaraj - violin Mysore Karthik - violin Tumkur Ravishankar - mridangam

This live set is from Ragas Live Festival 2020 Pioneer Works Brooklyn, NY Abhik Mukherjee - sitar Samarth Nagarkar - vocals  Dibyarka Chatterjee - tabla

Live set from Ragas Live 2020  Pioneer Works  Brooklyn, NYC, USA Roopa Mahadevan - vocal Arun Ramamurthy - violin Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan - mridangam

Live from Rajasthan this set from Womanly Voices performed in front of Merrangahr Fort was produced with the support of Jodhpur Riff.  Live video produced for Jodhpur RIFF by Oijo Media Jodhpur RIFF presents Womanly Voices Sumitra Devi - vocals, harmonium Ganga & Sundar - vocals Mohini Devi - vocals Susheela - khartal, manjira Shyam Rao - manjira Asin Khan - sindhi sarangi, additional vocals Sadik...

This live set is from New Delhi , India  Gaurav Mazumdar -Sitar

This live set is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Flute Shashank- flute Akkarai Subhalakshmi - violin  Patri Satish Kumar - mridangam

This live set is form Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Charumathi Raghuram - violin Anantha R. Krishnan -mridangam

This live set is from Kamardanga, West Bengal, India Parvathy Baul  - vocals, ekthara, duggi, nupur

This live set is from San Raphael, CA, USA Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri - Teentaal Tabla Solo (excerpt) Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri -  Tabla Suhail Yusuf Khan - Sarangi   Ali Akbar College of Music Tabla Ensemble Jim Santi Owen - Tabla, Morsing, Kanjira Nilan Chaudhuri - Tabla Rohan Krishnamurthy - Mridangam William Rossel - Tabla   Producer - Jim Santi Owen Sound Engineer - Neil Godbole     Filmed, Record...

This live set is from San Rafael, CA, USA Alam Khan  -sarod

This live set is from El Clavo, Venezuela Betsayda Machado - lead vocals and shakers Adrian "Ote" Gomez - vocals and culoe' puya Oscar Ruiz - vocals and shakers Nereida Machado - vocals, shakers and dancing Blanca Castillo - furruco Jose Gregorio Gomez - chorus and charrasca Asterio Betancourt - quinto and culoe' puya Nelson Gomez - pujao, cumaco, paila and dancing Youse Cardozo - conga, cumaco, p...

Live from San Fransisco SFJAZZ Center  This set was produced with the support of SFJAZZ Center  Zakir Hussain - tabla Rakesh Chaurasia - bansuri   Filmed at the SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, C

Live from B'nai Jeshurun NYC  This set from Andy Statman performed at B'nai Jeshurun NYC. Andy Statman  - clarinet, mandolin Jay Gandhi - bansuri David Ellenbogen - guitar Ehren Hanson -tabla  This set was produced with the support of B’nai Jeshurun   

Live from Rajasthan this set from Dhun Dhora performed in front of Merrangahr Fort was produced with the support of Jodhpur Riff.  Live video produced for Jodhpur RIFF by Oijo Media odhpur RIFF presents *Dhun Dhora* featuring the Dhol Drummers of Rajasthan Dayam Khan - harmonium, lead vocals Sardar Khan - Sindhi Sarangi, additional vocals Ghafoor Khan - khartal Chanan Khan - dhol Swaroop Khan - dh...

Ragas Live Festival is returning to WKCR 89.9 FM-NY on November 21st-22nd from 7pm-7pm.   The 9th annual festival will feature many legends of music from 13 cities from Mysore to Madagascar including Terry Riley, Zakir Hussain, Toumani Diabate and Bestayda Machado.  Full lineup at  www.ragaslive.org   Today we'll hear a highlight of Ragas Live Festival 2019.  Crossroads: Jay Gandhi & Yacouba Cisso...

This is the first podcast release of a set from Ragas Live Festival 2019.  The event was broadcast live on WKCR 89.9 FM-NY in front of an enthusiastic audience at Pioneer Works.   Saraswathi Ranganthan is performing the veena here and was joined by her Raghavan Sai on Mridangam.  In a spontaneous decision Swaminathan Selvganesh who had played an amazing set earlier in the evening sat in on the set...

Recored and broadcast live at the Ragas Live Festival 2017 from the Rubin Museum of Art, we hear the world premier of the new project:  Recalling the Valley.  Jay Gandhi (bansuri) and Max ZT's (hammered dulcimer) pay tribute to their world-renowned teachers, Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia.  With Ehren Hanson on tabla they will perform music inspired by their gurus’ beloved album, “Call...

The Coltrane Raga Tribute from Brooklyn Raga Massive has blowing some minds.  As they released their album, we hang with Sameer Gupta, the tabla upstart, drummer and musical director of the project.  We'll listen to a live performance from Pioneer Works. If you want to hear it all you’ll have to get the album ! . The all-star ensemble in the set we hear includes: Sameer Gupta – Drumset/Tabla, Bran...