Samat Pathan is a sad man. Pathan, the lone musician credited for taking the Kutchhi ethnic music to international level through the unusual instrument morchang' (Jews harp), was sidelined at recently ...

Thirty-year-old Varun Zinje is a very different man. For starters, in spite of being very modern and urban, he plays the Morchang, a traditional mouth-harp that has origins dating back to about 1,500 ...

Though it is the father of classical music, yet folk music somehow got lost in the sands of time. Rajasthani Roots, a collective of Rajasthani folk artists is redefining the way their trade has been ...

The first one to screen was Arun Fulara's short Shera. At the heart of this deeply moving film lies a leopard, whose lurking presence is the cause of trouble for the small Himalayan village. For Monu ...

A Sufi poem hitches a ride on a saxophone, taking along with it the beats of a tabla and a drum, the rhythm of a khartal and morchang (Rajasthani instruments) and finally surrounds itself with the ...

A typical folk performance from Rajasthan took place at Jaipur’s Jawahar Kala Kendra, with musicians wearing colourful Rajasthani turbans playing various instruments – harmonium, khartal, bhapang, ...

In 2014, with a zitar, saxophone, acoustic guitar and tabla, the instrumental band Swaraag was launched in Rajasthan. They did gigs, performed at events and also played at weddings. “At weddings, when ...

Music has a way of capturing the soul of a place, telling stories that words often fail to express. And in Rajasthan, music is woven into the very fabric of life. From the grand palaces of Jaipur to ...