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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106 young artists receive the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar
A Karkala vocalist, a tar shehnai player and two young Carnatic singers are among the 106 performers under 40 honoured in New…
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Anoushka Shankar opens her China tour at the Beijing Music Festival
More than 30 years into her career, the sitarist opened her China tour in Beijing, with one piece by her father in…
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Guruvayur Dorai, mridangam player of eight decades, dies at 91
He made his debut beside Chembai at eight, lived nine years in Palani Subramania Pillai’s house, and played on for nearly eight…
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At the India Music Retreat, the audience becomes the new patron
Concerts, conversations and shared meals over four days in Jaipur: Frontline calls the retreat a new kind of darbar, with listeners in…
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Free music workshops for schools, offered across India from Faridabad
Any school can invite Satyug Darshan Sangeet Kala Kendra’s teachers in for a free session on swara, laya and taal. Here is…
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Raga recognition: how new research is teaching machines to listen
A 2026 study from Hyderabad identifies 32 Hindustani ragas with a score above 90%. Here is what the model listens for, and…
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The Sound Space on Wheels turns a bus into a music classroom
Two sisters, a painted bus and seven Mumbai neighbourhoods a week: how The Sound Space takes music lessons to more than 500…
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