There are 64 different types of drums from India, and Ragi Rao of Kennewick can play about a dozen of them. The India-born man will give a performance and talk about a selection of those drums ...

TOLEDO — On a Thursday in April, the late afternoon light drifted through an open door, clashing with the rhythmic sounds of drums and singing. The group of about 10 drummers includes younger members ...

Together, these voices reveal a steelpan tradition that is neither fixed nor exclusive. In the hands of the Indian diaspora, ...

Because of weather-related issues, SoNA will perform a modified program Saturday evening with tabla master Sandeep Das and a chamber orchestra. Ticket holders who want to make changes in their tickets ...

Across the Americas there are many different Native cultures, each with unique musical traditions. The National Museum of the American Indian and other branches of the Smithsonian include music and ...

It was eight years ago that Sunny Jain first fell in love with the dhol. The dhol is a double-headed Indian drum that Jain wears strapped across his torso like a huge, resonant appendage. When he ...

Avirodh Sharma is right at home playing the Tabla with the young students of the East Indian Music Academy. After all, his parents started the school in their home when he was young and not too long ...

INDIAN music is a very ancient art and has a three-thousand-year-old tradition behind it. This represents perhaps the longest unbroken record of any cultural tradition we know. Countries like China ...