News & Concerts
A lot happens in Indian classical and fusion music every week: new collaborations, festival lineups, awards, launches, and concerts in cities around the world. It’s easy to miss things. We keep track, so you don’t have to.
Latest news
Announcements, launches and stories from across the classical and fusion world.
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Tadepalli Lokanatha Sarma to receive Sadguru Sangeetha Vidwanmani
Six decades of singing, teaching and research will be honoured on the closing night of Vijayawada’s Sadguru Sangeetha Sabha festival.
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T.R. Mahalingam centenary: Hyderabad plays flute for Mali
Three evenings, three flautists and a lineage that runs back to a seven-year-old’s debut in 1933.
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Sabad Naad records 141 shabads in all 62 ragas
An 18-hour Gurbani kirtan archive, nearly a decade in the making, puts the old string instruments of Sikh music back at the…
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Taalchakra festival turns 14 with tabla, Kathak and saxophone
Saxophone over Raga Puriya Dhanashree, Kathak in Taal Roopak and a tabla summit: Pune’s rhythm festival at 14.
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Mannan Shaah debuts as an independent artist with a Javed Akhtar ballad and a live orchestra
The composer’s first independent release, written by Javed Akhtar and recorded with a 50-piece live orchestra, is rooted in semi-classical ragas.
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MALHAR 2026: a youth-focused celebration of the classical tradition
Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the monsoon-themed festival in New Delhi, organised by Antar Hriday Connect to draw young people to…
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The Gajveena: a double bass meets the rudra veena on the world stage
Double bassist Debjit Mahalanobis’s newly invented instrument — fusing the rudra veena and the double bass — was a finalist at Georgia…
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Swarshri Hegde, aged two, plays 12 taals into the India Book of Records
She learnt by sitting beside her father’s tabla students. Now the toddler from Honnavar is the youngest tabla player in the India…
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Music in the Park brings voice and sitar to Nehru Park
Siddhartha Belmannu sang and Shahid Parvez played sitar under the open sky, in a free series that has kept Delhi listening for…
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