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Pradhanica:Jin Won (Kathak), Mike Lukshis (tabla), Kaumil Shah (djembe), and Vincent Pierce (cajon); Taalim Tabla Duet: Mike Lukshis (tabla), Kaumil Shah (tabla) performed a smoking set from 5-6pm at the Ragas LIve Festival 2015  

The Chaandayan Organization brought quite a few selections for this 4-5pm slot during Ragas Live 2015.  They began with their beginner Chhandayan Tabla Ensemble (Avinash Bose, Aditya Shinn, Rafi Hakim, Ronak Seth, Noelina Arciniegas, Kedar Gangopadhyay and Benjamin Stewart); Then there was a tabla solo from  Aditya Phatak; then the Chhandayan Vocal Ensemble (Roshni Basu, Shampa Chanda, Adwaitaa Go...

Jay Gandhi (bansuri) & Arun Ramamurthy (violin) with Abhi Seetharaman (mridangam) and Shivalik Ghoshal (tabla).  

    Om Gam: Michael Gam (bass), Kane Mathis (kora), Arun Ramamurthy (violin), Shivalik Goshal (tabla) performed from 2-3pm during the Ragas Live Festival 2015.

  Sameer Gupta's Namaskar, with Sameer Gupta: drumset, tabla - Arun Ramamurthy: violin - Rashaan Carter: violin - Neel Murgai, sitar and Jay Gandhi bansuri performed from 1pm-2pm for the Ragas Live Festival 2015.

The  Navatman Music Collective: Preetha Raghu, Kamini Dandapani, Shiv Subramaniam, Shraddha Balasubramaniam, Vignesh Ravichandran and  Janani Kannan performed from 1-2pm for Ragas Live 2015.

Steve Gorn (bansuri) and Ehren Hanson (tabla) performed from noon-1pm

    Samarth Nagarkar (vocal); Abhik Mukherjee (sitar) played a rare and new development in the music with a sitar vocal jugulbandi,  they gave a chance to the young man Vivek Pandya (tabla) who recently turned 11, to accompany them.  

Karavika: Amali Premawardhana (cello), Trina Basu (violin), Perry Wortman (bass) and Sameer Gupta (tabla) performed their Chamber Raga from 10am-11am on the Ragas Live Festival 2015.  

  Achyut Joshi (vocal) Dan Weiss(tabla) performed from 9am-10am on the  Ragas Live Festival 2015    

    Payton MacDonald performs a Druhpad Trance with electronics in Raag Bhairav and Aaakash Mittal plays a saxophone solo in the same Raag.  

Suhas Joshi (vocal) Gopal Kalluri (tabla) Neeraj Joshi (harmonium) and performed from 7-8am at the Ragas Live Festival 2015

  Anirban Dasgupta (Sarod) and Indrajit Roy Chowdhury (Sitar) played an exciting Jugulbandi (improvised duet) with Mike Lukshis (tabla)  

Arjun Verma  (Sitar) and Anirban Roy Chowdhury performed ragas Chandranandan and Sohini from 4am-5am during the Ragas Live Festival 2015

    Neel Murgai (Sitar) and Roshni Samlal (tabla) performed a great set from 4am-5am for the Ragas Live Festival 2015

  Their first time playing together, Max ZT (Hammered Dulcimer) Karsh  Kale (tabla) and Kane Mathis (kora) played an amazing set from 3am-4am on the Ragas Live Festival 2015.  

  Sandip Bhattacharjee  and Anirban Roy Chowdhury (tabla) open the 24 hour Ragas Live Festival from Midnight-1am Sandip will be teaching and performing in the New York Area until November 5th.. He can be reached at www. Sandipraga.com and sandipvocal@yahoo.com.    

The spontaneous jam sessions that close the weekly  Brooklyn Raga Massive are reaching epic proportions with established masters sitting in with young musicians from inside and outside the classical tradition.  Clearly we are in a Raga Renaissance  This latest one 6/11/2015 (last night!) features Jessica Lurie (sax); Kane Mathis (oud), Hadar Noiberg (flutes), Jay Gandhi (bansuri), Subhen Chatterje...

Jump  six and half minutes into this podcast and you'll hear music as organic as it gets: a group of children playing traditional rhythms on pots and pans as they sing the songs of their village.  Tom Rossi recorded this  25 years ago as he was biking from from Lome, Togo to Accra, Ghana. The podcast continues with Tom's recordings with the all-star world musicians of New York City, Yacouba Cissok...

    It was great to spend an hour on the radio with the great saxophone player, Lisa Parrott. The annual 2013 and 2014 Down Beat Critics Poll recently voted hera Rising Star for baritone saxophone players. Lisa was featured alongside her sister, bassist Nicki, at the prestigious Tribute to Mary Lou Williams Festival at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. in 2002. She has also performed with such...

This podcast features three weeks of live recordings I made recording traditional music, while serving as the artist-in-residence at the Ureuk World Music House in Chungju Korea.  We'll hear performances on a dozen instruments like the  Gayageum,  Haegeum and Piri  arranged by WonHaeng Cho he Conductor of the Chungju Municipal Ureuk Orchestra for Korean Traditional Music. We'll even hear a recordi...

The weekly Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam Sessions have an incredibly deep bench. The same night Neel Murgai proposed in 7.5 beats (podcast 139) the next set was Max ZT and Ehren Hanson. This recording sounds particularly good because it was mixed and mastered by Phil Duke at Continental Studio in Long Island City, NY.   Lauded as the “Jimi Hendrix of Hammered Dulcimer" by NPR, and a "Force of nature"...

After a beautiful set from the Neel Murgai Ensemble,  Neel proposes to Brooklyn Raga Massive member Seema Pandya, in 7 and half beats! Not a dry eye in the house...    

The brilliant pianist Michele Rosewoman shares the music of her incredible ensemble New Yor-Uba, a group that has been exploring the beauty of the Jazz/Cuba/Yoruba traditions.  They'll be at Dizzy's at Lincoln Center 3/27-29.   Michele Rosewoman, a vanguard and pioneering artist in her field, mines acoustic modern jazz, sophisticated funk, dynamic electric fusion and elements of Cuban folkloric mu...