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Niladri Kumar is one of the great sitarists of out time.  In this free-wheeling conversation, Niladri talks about his lifelong search for sound and his upcoming release with the late great Zakir Hussain. The son and disciple of Pandit Kartick Kumar, one of the senior-most disciples of Pandit Ravi Shankar, Niladri was a child prodigy who gave his first performance at age six. He went on to tour the...

Ragas Live Surprise! Surprise set from Dr. Mysore Manjunath, Sumanth Manjunath, Giridhar Udupa Sai Giridhar Ragas Live Festival 2026 Ragas Live Festival 2026 10/18-10-19 at Pioneer Works Set 5 of 24 Hours of Music 1:40 AM    Dr. Mysore Manjunath(violin);  Sumanth Manjunath(violin); Giridhar Udupa (ghatam); Sai Giridhar (mridangam) Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycra...

Ragas Live Festival 2026 10/18-10-19 at Pioneer Works Set 1 of 24 Hours of Music 7PM Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan (violin); B. Guru Raghavendra (mridangam); Sharadha Krishnan (tanpura) Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival 2026 10/18-10-19 at Pioneer Works Se2 of 24 Hours of Music 8:40 PM Sanhita Nandi (vocals); Nitin Mitta (tabla); Ravi Mishra (harmonium); Pratyush Goberdhan (sarangi); Bani Kaur (tanpura) Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival 2026 10/18-10-19 at Pioneer Works Set 3 of 24 Hours of Music 10:20 PM A Tribute to Umm Kulthum - Gholobt Asaleh fi Ruhi Featuring Zahra AlZubaidi, Zafer Tawil, Sami Abu Shumays, and The Umm Kulthum Workshop Sami Abu Shumays (violin/vocals); Zahra A-Zubaidi (vocals); Zafer Tawil (qanun/vocals); Johnny Farraj (riqg) Alber Baseel (tabla) Sarah Mueller (violin); Eylem Basaldi (viol...

Ragas Live Festival 2026 10/18-10-19 at Pioneer Works Set 4 of 24 Hours of Music (Midnight Set) Saha Gnawa Maâlem Hassan Ben Jaafar, vocals and guembri; Daniel Freedman, drums and percussion; Amino Belyamani, qraqebs and backing vocals; David Lizmi, qraqebs and backing vocals; Jason Lindner, keys and synths; Guilherme Monteiro, guitars; Michael Leonhart trumpet; (surprise Guest: Nels Cline, guitar...

Ragas Live Festival 2026 10/18-10-19 at Pioneer Works Set 6 of 24 Hours of Music Time 3:20 AM Flute Raman (Carnatic flute); Sriram Raman  (mirdangam) Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival 2026 10/18-10-19 at Pioneer Works Set 7of 24 Hours of Music 5AM Anubrata Chatterjee, tabla; Samyuktha Sreeram, ghatam; Rohan Misra, Sarangi Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival 2026 10/18-10-19 at Pioneer Works Set 8 of 24 Hours of Music  6:15 AM Sunrise set. Gabriel Akhmad Marin Qalb Ensemble Gabriel Akhmad Marin- Dombra, Fretless Guitar Muhammad Ali Mojaradi- Recitation Amin Sharshar- Vocal, Setar Yousef Tehrani- Daf, Vocal Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live  

Ragas Live Festival 2-26 October 17-18 9:30 AM at Pioneer Works Set 9 of 24 hours of music.   Soumya Chakraverty, sarod; Dibyarka Chatterjee, tabla Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival  October 17-18 2026  Set 10 of 24 hours of music Vinay Desai, santoor; Anubrata Chatterjee, tabla Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival October 17-18 Set 11 of 24 hours of music 11:00AM Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik, vocal; Pratyush Goberdhan, sarangi; Mir Naqibul Islam, tabla, Shankhadip Chakrabarty, vocal support and tanpura.   Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival October 17-18 2026  Set 12: 12:40PM of the 24 hours of music Aditya Prakash, vocal, Kamalakiran Vinjamuri, violin, Abhinav Seetharaman, mridangam; Samyuktha Sreeram, ghatam   Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival October 17-18 2026 2:15 PM Set 13 of 24 hours of music Derek Gripper (guitar) Celebrates Toumani Diabaté  Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival October 17-18 2028 Set 14. 3:45 PM Indrajit Banerjee, sitar; Nitin Mitta, tabla   Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Ragas Live Festival October 17- October 18 Set 15 5:35PM - 7:00 PM  The final set of the Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works.  The legends of Qawaal, Fareed Ayaz & Abu Muhammad on their final USA tour.    Visit our website for more music and our latest news! https://nycradiolive.org/ Instagram:  @nyc_radio_live

Gabriel Akhmad Marin is a multi-instumental virtuoso, pioneer of the fretless guitar and a master of ancient Eastern string traditions.  Most well known for his band Consider the Source, this weekend he is bringing a new project, the Gabriel Akhmad Marin Qalb Ensemble, for a special sunrise set. From the jazz clubs of New York City to the vibrant cultural hubs of Istanbul, Gabriel’s work is a seam...

Sami Abu Shumays is one of the leading Arab violinists in the US, and a vocalist. In this episode, he shares the story of Umm Kulthum, the legendary voice of Egypt and the Arab world. Sami will bring A Tribute to Umm Kulthum – Gholobt Asaleh fi Ruhi to the Ragas Live Festival 2026, featuring Zahra AlZubaidi, Zafer Tawil, Mohamed Salah, Sami Abu Shumays, and The Umm Kulthum Workshop.  

Grammy Award winning pianist Kevin Hays has a new album out on the new label AHT Records, Live at the Stone   We hang out with Kevin and fellow keyboard legend Craig Taborn before they take the stage at The Jazz Gallery.  Kevin has worked with countless legends like Sonny Rollins, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman, Chris Potter, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. Brad Mehldau, Lionel Loueke and Steve Ga...

Mustafa Abu Muhammad's family have been practitioners of the ecstatic, Sufi musical tradition of Qawwali for 800 years.  His uncle and his father lead the most popular Qawwali party in Pakistan, Fareed Ayaz & Abu Muhammad Qawwal, of which Mustafa is a member and he is the leader of Mustafa Abu Muhammad Qawwal currently touring the United States.  In this interview, Mustafa shares the fascinati...

Smokey Hormel and Charlie Burnham have played with countless legends of music, like Johnny Cash, James "Blood" Ulmer, Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Beck, Adele, Justin Timberlake, to name a few. They are also the nucleus of Smokey's Roundup , the eclectic Western Swing band that has been holding it down on Wednesdays at Sunny's Bar, in Red Hook, Brooklyn for over 2 decades.  If you're...

Born in Iran in 1979, Ehsan Matoori is one of the leading Santoor virtuosos of today. Ehsan discusses the long and deep history, dating back thousands of years, of Persian music and poetry, his own journey, and his exciting new project, The Rite of Strings, whose debut album, Dust and the Moon will be released August 28th by Bright Shiny Things . For a deeper dive into Persian Music, here are a fe...

The roots of rock and roll began in the 1930s, when jazz musicians looked for venues to play beyond the reach of mob-controlled clubs in the North. A promoter laundering his numbers-running revenue expanded this network of jook joints, barns, taverns, and luxurious clubs across the South, creating the Chitlin' Circuit that would bring the world Little Richard, Louis Jordan, James Brown, B.B. King...

A 2016 interview and live performance with one of the great families of rhythm led by Grammy Award winner and Shakti percussionist T.H. Vikku Vanyakram, his son Selvaganesh (who would also win a Grammy with Shakti) and grandson Swamnithan Selvaganesh.   Recorded at the East Indian Music Academy, this is a legendary lineup: T.H. Vikku Vanyakram, ghatam;  Uma Shankar, ghatam; Selva Ganesh, kanjira a...

John Medeski is one of the most versatile pianists and keyboard players of our time.  Already gigging with world class musicians like Jaco Pastorius in High School and connecting with greats like Billy Higgins, Dewey Redman and Bob Moses in college, he landed in the adventurous downtown New York scene of in the 1990.  That fertile artistic environment is where he connected with and formed the the...