Ragas Live Festival
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Ramakrishnan Murthy Ragas Live Festival 2023 - Credit George Estreich
Amir ElSaffar In E half flat credit Adrien Tillman
Vicky Chow, David Cossin & Mark Stewart Ragas Live Festival 2023 - Credit George Estreich
RAGAS LIVE FESTIVAL
Ragas Live Festival is annual 24 hour celebration of transcendent music. There is simply nothing like it.
The event’s inspiration is is raga, the classical music of South Asia, a musical system in which specific musical modes are designed to harmonize with specific times of day, such as sunrise, sunset, or the darkest hours of the night. Master musicians of the tradition are presented alongside legends in ambient music, minimalism, jazz, new music and global traditions.
Pioneer Works provides an ideal setting for the experience, the natural light in the main hall shifts during the day and the outdoor garden allows for the participants to listen to the music under the stars at night.
Ragas Live began as radio broadcast in 2012 when a community of 50 musicians volunteered to bring the WKCR-FM listening audience on a 24 hour journey of sound.
A global community of listeners tune into the broadcast at WKCR-FM and join us on the livestream. In 2020, 86,000 people tuned in as we presented 90 artists from 15 cities in 7 countries including Zakir Hussain, Betsayda Machado, Toumani Diabate and Terry Riley.
About Ragas Live Festival
Ragas Live Festival was born as an in-studio radio broadcast at Columbia University's radio station, WKCR, in 2012 and immediately gained a global listening audience. The annual presentation of 50-70 musicians and its expansive presentation of music inspired by the Indian Classical tradition became central to a musical movement that the New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, and others have called “The Raga Renaissance”. The event first left the studio and became a live, in-person broadcast in 2016 at Pioneer Works, where it has since grown a passionate following.
Presented in collaboration with Brooklyn Raga Massive and the Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia.
Special thanks to the Ravi Shankar Foundation for their support.
Ragas Live Festival is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council. Brooklyn Arts Fund (DCLA) is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.
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