Separate festivals are organised for nadaswaram including by Krishna Gana Sabha but they are often the exception. Nadaswaram aficionados and artists see a variety of reasons for this treatment. File ...

The pandemic has affected the livelihood of many Carnatic musicians, especially nadaswaram and thavil vidwans who depend on kutcheris, wedding and temple festivities for their survival Aishwarya, who ...

Bengaluru (Karnataka), March 27 (PTI) The Music Academy Madras are all set to organise their first exclusive Nadaswaram festival 'Nadotsavam', a three day event starting on Wednesday in Chennai. With ...

Singaaravelane Deva, This mesmerising number in the celluloid icon of the 1950s has fascinated a whole generation. In the same path of mellifluous music came the magic of the mangala isai in the ...

Sheik Mahaboob Subhani and Kaleeshabi Mahaboob are familiar names in the traditional instrumental music circuit. In fact, they are one of the few who have accorded nadaswaram the respect it deserves ...

CHENNAI, (IANS) – Music maestro Seshampatti T. Sivalingam, a doyen of ‘Nadaswaram’, has been conferred with Padma Shri award. Sivalingam was an ‘A’ grade artist with the All India Radio and has ...

Mumbai: Nearly 100 artistes played the nadaswaram at the Sankaralayam temple, Chembur, on Saturday morning, as part of a rehearsal for Sunday morning's grand Carnatic music event in Matunga. The ...

A fellow musician shared a picture of the following hoarding — “Live Nadaswaram not allowed”. It is displayed in a street in the heart of Chennai. When you enter temples in South India, or even ...

“This is one of the most important instruments of Carnatic music along with the veena,” says Injikudi E.M. Subramaniam, a music industry stalwart and a 20th-generation nadaswaram player. He refers to ...

The pleasant notes of the nadaswaram enliven the spiritual ambience in Hindu temples and during auspicious occasions. Major shrines in South India open and close with a ritualistic nadaswaram recital.

A couple of days ahead of T.N. Rajarathinam Pillai’s death anniversary this week, another nadaswaram maestro gave two Carnatic concerts at a Kerala shrine north of the Palk Strait that divides his ...