We chat with Qawwal legend Abu Muhammad and hear a live performance from Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal & Brothers! Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal & Brothers are among the world’s very finest exponents of Qawwali - a hypontic, vocal-driven form of Sufi devotional music rich in poetic and mystical symbolism. Their group, in the typical style of their genre, is led by powerful vocalists, who loop through multiple verse-chorus sequences backed by other singers as well as harmonium,...

We connect with Musekiwa Chingdoza from Zimbabwe for the Ragas Live Festival 

The Iberi Choir join the Ragas Live Festival from the Republic of Georgia!

Bansuri maestro Eric Fraser with Mir Naqibol Islam on tabla at the 2021 Ragas Live Festival.    

Hamid Al-Saadi with Safaafir Hamid Al-Saadi - vocal Amir ElSaffar - santur and vocal Dena El Saffar - joza, violin, and vocal Tim Moore - percussion George Ziadeh - oud Zahra Zubaidi - vocal Zahra Ali - vocal Omar Dewachi    Subscribe to NYC Radio Live to enjoy the full festival.

An interview with Parvathy Baul, conducted by David Ellenbogen, produced with the support of SACSA. for the Ragas Live Festival Parvathy Baul is a practitioner, performer and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal, India. She is also an instrumentalist, storyteller and painter.   She has performed in over forty countries, including such prestigious concert halls and music festivals as the Noh Theater in Kyoto, the World Music Center in New York City, Melbourne Arts Center and the...

The opening set of the Ragas Live Festival 2021.  Subscribe for weekly updates with the following 24 sets...

This first live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Cape Town, South Africa Derek Gripper - Guitar Second live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Dr. Toumani Diabate - kora Ahmed Diabate - kora Balla Diabate - kora

This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Rubin Museum of Art Arun Ramamurthy - violin Jay Gandhi - bansuri Vivek Pandya - tabla Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan - mridangam

This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Mangily, Madagascar Monika Njava: voice, percussion Teta: guitar, voice Jean Piso: accordion, voice

This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal Prince Nepali - sarangi Vibha Saran Nepali - tabla

This live set is from Ragas Live Festival 2020 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Vikku Vinayakaram  - ghatam V. Selvaganesh  - drum kit Swaminathan - Kanjira, konnokol

This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Mysore, Karnataka, India. Mysore Nagaraj - violin Mysore Karthik - violin Tumkur Ravishankar - mridangam

This live set is from Ragas Live Festival 2020 Pioneer Works Brooklyn, NY Abhik Mukherjee - sitar Samarth Nagarkar - vocals  Dibyarka Chatterjee - tabla

Live set from Ragas Live 2020  Pioneer Works  Brooklyn, NYC, USA Roopa Mahadevan - vocal Arun Ramamurthy - violin Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan - mridangam

Live from Rajasthan this set from Womanly Voices performed in front of Merrangahr Fort was produced with the support of Jodhpur Riff.  Live video produced for Jodhpur RIFF by Oijo Media Jodhpur RIFF presents Womanly Voices Sumitra Devi - vocals, harmonium Ganga & Sundar - vocals Mohini Devi - vocals Susheela - khartal, manjira Shyam Rao - manjira Asin Khan - sindhi sarangi, additional vocals Sadik Khan - dholak Location - Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur

This live set is from New Delhi , India  Gaurav Mazumdar -Sitar

This live set is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Flute Shashank- flute Akkarai Subhalakshmi - violin  Patri Satish Kumar - mridangam