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Eleventh set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th, 2025. Whispering Worlds w/ Aaron Shragge (John Hassell Tribute)  Aaron Shragge -trumpet/shakuhachi/fx/composition Luke Schwartz, guitar Damon Banks, bass Deric Dickens, drums   Visit  Ragas Live Festival  for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC...

Tenth set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th, 2025.   Radhika Samson (surbahar) Tejas Tope (pakawaj)   Visit  Ragas Live Festival  for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm Productions, and Brooklyn Raga Ma...

Ninth of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th, 2025.   Vishnu Ramprasad (navtar) Praveen Narayan (tabla) Sriram Raman  (mridangam)   Visit  Ragas Live Festival  for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm Producti...

Eighth set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th 2025.   Asif Khan & Karamat Khan  (vocal, tabla)   Visit  Ragas Live Festival  for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm Productions, and Brooklyn Raga Mass...

Seventh set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th 2025. Sannan Mahboob (Afghan rubab) Karamat Khan (tabla)   Visit  Ragas Live Festival  for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm Productions, and Brooklyn Raga...

Sixth set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th 2025. Arun Ramamurthy Trio Arun Ramamurthy, violin Sameer Gupta, drums Damon Banks, bass   Visit  Ragas Live Festival  for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm...

Fifth set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th 2025. Light Over Shadow (Zakir Hussain Tribute):  Sikiru Adepoju Sanga of the Valley V. Selvaganesh Ishaan Ghosh    Visit  Ragas Live Festival  for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo...

Fourth set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th 2025.   Saami Brothers (Qawwali)   Visit Ragas Live Festival for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm Productions, and Brooklyn Raga Massive.

Third set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th 2025.   Eucademix (Yuka Honda) (electronics)   Visit Ragas Live Festival for more! Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm Productions, and Brooklyn Raga Massive.

Second set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th 2025. Charumathi Raghuraman (violin) Anantha R. Krishnan (mridangam) Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm Productions, and Brooklyn Raga Massive.

First set of the epic 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival.  Broadcast live from Pioneer Works from October 18-19th 2025. ARAJ: Ishaan Ghosh (tabla) S. Akash (bansuri) Mehtab Ali (sitar) Pratik Singh (vocals) Vanraj Shastri (sarangi) Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, The Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), People of Rhythm Productions...

I had the thrill of speaking of with the legendary artist, Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan who will be performing the penultimate set of the  Ragas Live Festival next week.  One of the world’s leading sitarists, Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan belongs to an illustrious musical family and has achieved success in not only preserving the tradition, but in pushing its boundaries to greater heights. He is one of the...

This is a great conversation with Rauf Saami of the Saami Brothers brilliantly translated by his Ashar Mumtaz. The Saami Brothers will be preforming for the world music institute on Saturday, October 4, 2025 https://www.worldmusicinstitute.org/saamibrotherskhayal/ The Saami family is the living custodian of the Delhi Qawwal Bacha Gharana – a musical school of thought — founded in the 14th century...

2 AM set of the 24 hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 10.23.22 Qasim Naqvi (Analog Synths - New York)   Originally broadcast on WKCR-FM   Ragas Live Festival 2025 October 18-19 at Pioneer Works Ragas Live Festival   Watch more of the Ragas Live Festival videos on YouTube ! Follow Ragas Live Festival

12 PM set of the 24 hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 10.23.22   Vinay Desai (santoor) Vivek Pandya (tabla)   Originally broadcast on WKCR-FM   Ragas Live Festival 2025 October 18-19 at Pioneer Works Ragas Live Festival   Watch more of the Ragas Live Festival videos on YouTube ! Follow Ragas Live Festival

9 PM set of the 24 hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 10.14.23 Trio from the legendary ensemble Bang on a Can, performing music of Nik Bartch, Brian Eno and others.  Vicky Chow (piano) David Cossin (percussion) Mark Stewart (guiter)   Originally broadcast on WKCR-FM   Ragas Live Festival 2025 October 18-19 at Pioneer Works Ragas Live Festival   Watch more of the Ragas Live Festival videos o...

7:15 AM set of the 24 hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 10.20.24 Namami Karmakar (singer) Dibyarka Chatterjee (tabla) Anirban Chakrabarty (harmonium)   Originally broadcast on WKCR-FM   Ragas Live Festival 2025 October 18-19 at Pioneer Works Ragas Live Festival   Watch more of the Ragas Live Festival videos on YouTube ! Follow Ragas Live Festival

2:50 PM Set of the 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 10.15.23 Supruli is a NYC-based choir devoted to the traditional folk and liturgical polyphonic singing tradition from Georgia Led by Carl Linich, the choir features Leo Decristoforo, Marina Decristoforo, Ezra Halleck, Sarah Kessler Wolven, Jay Laubscher, Sunny Lawrence, Sarah Leitao, Luka Linich, Sarah Mullins and Addie Grace Mahdavi

Manik Khan (sarod) + Sudhakar Vaidyanathan (tabla) pay tribute to Manik’s father, Ali Akbar Khan. 2:30 AM Set of the 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 2022 Originally broadcast on WKCR-FM The next festival is happening 10/18-19 at Pioneer Works, tix and info at www.ragaslive.com

2:00 AM set of the 24 hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 10.20.24 U. Rajesh (mandolin), Harshad Kanetka (tabla) and Swaminathan Selvaganesh (kanjira) at the Ragas Live Festival More details and tix for this October at Ragas Live Festival  

It was an incredible thill to hang with Jaimoe, the legendary drummer of the Allman Brothers at WKCR 2014.  To hear Jaimoe's song selections from the program, check out this playlist on spotify.     Jaimoe shared stories and dug through our record library. When asked if he had a good time, he said "That's a f#$ng understatement!"  Also joining us was Alan Paul the band's official biographer and s...

Joe Boyd is a legendary producer who helped bring artists like Pink Floyd, Nick Drake and Toumani Diabate to the world alongside producing classic albums by Toots and the Maytals, REM, Taj Mahal and countless others.  His new book is " And the Roots of Rhythm Remain " and it is an astounding and inspiring history of music from around the globe.  I can't recommend it enough.  Joe Boyd will be at th...

Jay Gandhi (bansuri) and Ishaan Ghosh (tabla) perform Rag Malkauns at the  Ragas Live Festival 2024. 12:30 AM set of the 24 hour event.   A multifaceted artist, Jay Gandhi’s music is at once reflective of his devotion to his Guru, the inimitable legend of the bansuri, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, as well as a diverse range of other musical influences. Jay’s initial training in Hindustani music was und...

Two of our favorite artists, Saraswathi Ranganathan (veena) & Swaminathan Selvaganesh (kanjira) returned to Ragas Live Festival 2024 for a late night/early morning set of Carnatic music. It was 5:30 AM set of the 24 hour festival at Pioneer Works on 10.20.24 and Saraswathi led the audience on a journey.   Saraswathi brings with her a legacy of firsts. She is the first Indian woman and Veena ar...

We hang a maestro of Bulgarian music, Lubomir Smilenov, and hear his incredible performance from Ragas Live Festival 2020 with Matt Moran.  Both performers will be featured at this weekend's Zlatne Ustne Golden Festival January 17-18 in Astoria, Queens.  Lubomir Smilenov, born in Bulgaria and raised in New York City, found a unique expression of his heritage through the Kaba Gaida, the traditional...