Category: Music

Skrillex and Peggy Gou announced for Sunburn Goa 2024 | Photo Credit: Sunburn Sunburn Goa 2024 has announced its next phase of headliners, with renowned EDM producers Skrillex and Peggy Gou set to lead the festival. Scheduled to run from December 28 to 30, the event, known as Asia’s largest electronic dance music festival, continues...

For decades now, art and media have been wrestling with the representation of communities on the margins of our societies. But the pendulum has mostly swung between perfectly saintly and perfectly sinful characterisations; both extremely vexing. Over the past five years, the queer subject has begun to become a little more complicated, with queer people...

No. 10, Sri Labdi Colony in Chennai is bustling with activity as preparations are on for the celebration of Samanvay – 50 years of the Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts (CAPA). It is the elegant home of Bharatanatyam exponent, guru and arts administrator Chitra Visweswaran, who steps into her 75th year on October 12. It...

From a previous edition of the Brillante Piano Festival | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Brillante is a Nagaland-based piano festival which is into its fifth year and is coming to Bengaluru for the first time. The event will see musicians from 15 Indian States and 18 countries, make music over two days. Khyochano TCK, founder...

At KroaKING 2024 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Not too long ago when the city was still called Bangalore, its residents would would enjoy live music and karaoke nights, one of which used to be Opus Kroaknights on Sundays. Those melodious evenings were hosted by Carlton Braganza who has brought back the music in a...

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at his home on Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, family spokeswoman Ebie McFarland said in an email. He was 88. McFarland said Kristofferson died peacefully, surrounded by his...

Members of Hamari Urdu Mohabbat during a performance | Photo Credit: special arrangement Tributes to Mahatma Gandhi come in various forms, often involving the bhajans he enjoyed and the principles he stood for. Gandhi Jayanti will be celebrated this year by Hamari Urdu Mohabbat (HUM) with an hour-long program Peer Parayi Jaane Re, which combines...

Rehmat-e-Nusrat performing at Royal Opera House in Mumbai | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sometimes tribute bands and impersonators have a following of their own. Their success lies in their ability to keep the memory and flavour of the original alive. So it is with Rehmat-e-Nusrat, a group hailing from the Kumaon hills in Uttarakhand, which...

Singer Tanvi Shah | Photo Credit: Adharsh “When God throws things at you, you should not disrespect it,” singer Tanvi Shah told The Hindu a decade ago. Back then, she was one of the most happening singers in the film industry; apart from being the first Indian woman to bag the prestigious Grammy for AR...

Children singing inside the bus-cum-music room | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It’s not unusual to hear classical tunes from inside a yellow bus parked in the leafy bylanes of Napean Sea Road. Step inside and what you see is a brightly lit classroom with colourful posters. The students are children from the slums of Shimla...