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When the Jazzmandu music festival was first held in Kathmandu in 2002, very few in Nepal had heard of jazz. The annual festival turns 16 this year, and will once again entertain music lovers between ...

When Dil Khadka was a boy in Bhutan, he made his first instrument — a bamboo flute — by hand. Inspired by the music he heard on the radio, he cut bamboo from the forest and burnt holes into it using a ...

Self portrait by Smyrna Samten Sherpa. “All of us write songs. All of us make music.” I pause when I hear you say this. I want to say, I do not know anything about music. Instead, I say, tell me more.