Learn about the history, and future, of the musical art form. Devesh Chandra started playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) at age three, learning from the sounds of Northern Indian classical music ...

The serendipitous discovery opened the door for Bennett to a very personal way of joining two traditions on his unlikely instrument, an approach that shines with musical clarity in the original pieces ...

Music transcends barriers, connecting people across the globe through a universal language. Anupam Shobhakar, an Indian-American musician based in New York, embodies this philosophy by seamlessly ...

Subramanian is a technology executive and classic music teacher. She lives in Carmel Valley. One of my earliest childhood memories is of listening to and learning the South Indian classical music ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla player and composer who helped integrate Indian classical sound into Western music, has died at age 73. Hussain died Sunday afternoon in San Francisco ...

Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco.

Indian tabla maestro Zakir Hussain died at a hospital in San Francisco on Sunday, his family said. He was 73. “Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s most transcendent musicians, passed away from ...