The seventh edition of Understanding Qawwali celebrated the art form with the launch of Manjari Chaturvedi's book, 'Qawwali: ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

The singers in Pakistani ensemble the Saami Brothers like to take their time onstage—each vocal step moves the performance upward gradually toward a collective sense of ecstasy. That deliberate pacing ...

Thanks to a Chicago foundation, Houston’s Sonny Mehta will spend the next year and change exploring the spiritual connection between traditional South Asian music and gospel sounds from these shores.

Her band comprised pianist Fergus McCreadie – who was recently nominated for the Mercury Music Prize with his jazz album Forest Floor – saxophonist Matt Carmichael and award-winning fiddler and jazz ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's new album is "Chain of Light." (Courtesy of Masataka Ishida) Four previously unknown recordings of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Pakistani singer known as the ‘King of the Kings ...