By Pratishtha Dobhal While it’s difficult to curate a list of women in music without exhausting the length of the blog post, celebrating women’s day by listening to five emerging…
Certain things become so much a part of us that we forget to acknowledge them. Vaishnav Jan To, which I had grown up listening to, resonated deeply, but lay dormant within…
The Grammy-nominated artiste Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, credited with the invention of the chaturangi, or Indian lap slide guitar (a version of the slide guitar). Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya pioneered Hindustani slide…
Here is something even the most ardent music lover might not know about. In the 1960s, those in the know of the jazz scene in Los Angeles, California heard a…
A lesser known gem of a city from the United State (yes there are still places in USA that Indians can discover and explore!), San Rafael is just half…
Known for its great expanses of deserts, Nevada’s jewel of the desert is for sure Las Vegas. It’s no surprise then that Bollywood reached its pretty shores. Back in 1997,…
Over 20 years after John Denver’s gone, his songs live on as people around the world hum those popular tunes whether as a group at karaoke parties, or alone in…
Hawaii was the 50th state to join the United States of America and this group of islands is known the world over for its beaches and lush scenery. Not many…
In the mid-1980s, Balwant N. Dixit, a distinguished scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, established the Center for the Performing Arts of India at the university. This was done…
No conversation about music from United States is complete without a mention of the King – Elvis Presley. The man and his music acquired world-wide fame and will live on…