One of the most brilliant musical gems of the famous Etawah Gharana, Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan belongs to the seventh generation of his musical lineage. A very young Shahid Parvez was initiated into the hallowed realms of vocal music and tabla by his illustrious father and Guru, Ustad Aziz Khan, before training on the [...]
After concluding their recent US tour, the frontman of one of India’s premier rock bands and LiB’s favourite’s, Palash Sen of Euphoria was kind enough to spare a few minutes to chat with us. LiB is really excited to share excerpts from the Interview.
A special thanks to Uma and Anagha of AID for making [...]
‘Prasanna is a living hope for quality music’ – A.R. Rahman
How can you play Carnatic music on a guitar? A question that was on everyone’s mind when Prasanna daringly took one of the world’s most ancient musical forms on one of the world’s most modern instruments – the electric guitar! 20 years on, the question [...]
Pandit Jasraj is blessed with a rich, soul stirring and sonorous voice, traversing effortlessly across three and a half octaves. His vocalizing is in perfect diction and clarity.
Endowed with a voice that is his fortune, Panditji has harnessed his talent and genius in shaping a style that is at once his own. His singing [...]
Do you remember dancing to the tunes of ‘Dhoom Pichak Dhoom’? Singing away ‘Maaeri’ late into the night with friends? Its time to relive all those beautiful memories again!!!
One of the most loved and followed bands from India, “Euphoria” is coming to US with their endless list of popular songs this November. Euphoria [...]
DJ Rekha has brought South Asian music to New York by spinning at events like “P.S. 1′s Warm Up Series”, Central Park’s “Summerstage”, Prospect Park’s “Celebrate Brooklyn”, Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays, and the annual flagship “Loving Day” celebration held in New York City. She arranged the music for Bridge and Tunnel, the Obie-Award winning Off-Broadway [...]
For the first time, three theatre legends- Shabana Azmi, writer Girish Karnad and director Alyque Padamsee – will come together for a play Broken Images
This play is a psychological thriller that rips the mask off a celebrity Hindi short story writer who suddenly becomes rich and famous by her English best-seller. Has she traded her [...]
Tabla superstar Zakir Hussain and young sitar virtuoso Niladri Kumar, two extraordinary artists who have collaborated several times in the past, including on Hussain’s Masters of Percussion, come together for a brilliant evening of Indian classical music.
When: November 6th, 2010
Where: Sanders Theatre – 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts
When: November 7th, 2010
Where: Wortham Center – 501 [...]
Pandit Ravi Shankar is India’s most esteemed musician and a singular phenomenon whose pioneering artistry crosses all cultural and musical boundaries. Watch him perform live again, this time for a celebration of his 90th birthday featuring the sitar master along with his daughter and protégé Anoushka. His tour dates are listed below.
This father-daughter [...]
