NYC Radio Live Podcast
07.08.2024
We hang with the great multi-instrumentalist, singer, song leader, composer and instrument designer Mark Stewart! I'd been dreaming of doing this interview for years, and the upcoming Bang on a Can LOUD Festival (August 1-4 at Mass MoCA) was the perfect catalyst to make this finally happen.
06.28.2024
Gaurav Mazumdar - Ragas Live Festival 2023
Ragas Live Festival 2023 opened with this stunning sitar set from Gaurav Mazumdar—legendary disciple of Pt. Ravi Shankar—accompanied by Umesh Banerjee on the tabla.
8PM Set of the 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 10.14.23
2022 featuring Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena and Sriram Raman on Mridangam
Tix and info for Ragas Live Festival are available at www.ragaslive.com
You can also watch a video of this performance on YouTube here.
Amazing set from 2022 featuring Kane Mathis on Kora and Roshni Samlal on Tabla. Kane Mathis, a man of many talents, also mixed and mastered this and all the recordings from Ragas Live Festival 2022.
We connect with Musekiwa Chingdoza from Zimbabwe for the Ragas Live Festival 2021
Bansuri maestro Eric Fraser with Mir Naqibol Islam on tabla at the 2021 Ragas Live Festival.
Hamid Al-Saadi with Safaafir
Hamid Al-Saadi - vocal Amir ElSaffar - santur and vocal Dena El Saffar - joza, violin, and vocal Tim Moore - percussion George Ziadeh - oud Zahra Zubaidi - vocal Zahra Ali - vocal Omar Dewachi
11.22.2021
An interview with Parvathy Baul, conducted by David Ellenbogen, produced with the support of SACSA. for the Ragas Live Festival
Parvathy Baul is a practitioner, performer and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal, India. She is also an instrumentalist, storyteller and painter.
She has performed in over forty countries, including such prestigious concert halls and music festivals as the Noh Theater in Kyoto, the World Music Center in New York City, Melbourne Arts Center and the Festival of World Sacred Music in Fez, Morocco.
She has also collaborated with world’s leading theater director Eugenio Barba.
She visits several dance, theatre and music institutions across the globe in the capacity of a teacher.
The depth of her mesmerising performance is rooted in her deep spiritual practice.
It is described by critics as “riveting” and “spellbinding.”
Parvathy’s performance work emerges from a long lineage of master Baul singers, dancers, and spiritual teachers.
She studied closely with two of the most respected Baul singer-gurus of the previous generation, Sri Sanatan Das Thakur Baul and Sri Shashanko Goshai.
She was recognized by her gurus as both a musical and spiritual teacher in the Baul tradition, carrying forward their spiritual legacy.
Parvathy has co-founded Ekathara Kalari along with Sri Ravi Gopalan Nair, a non-profit institution promoting ancient Indian spiritual traditions, with an emphasis on Baul arts and practice.
As per her Guru Sri Sanatan Das Baul’s vision, she has established Sanatan Siddhashram, a traditional learning center for the Baul tradition in Birbhum district, West Bengal, India.
Recognising her unbroken commitment to the tradition, the government of India conferred upon her the most esteemed Sangeet Natak Akademi award in the year 2019. It is the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists.
She was felicitated by honorable President Sri Ramnath Kovind.
The opening set of the Ragas Live Festival 2021. Subscribe for weekly updates with the following 24 sets.
This first live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Cape Town, South Africa
Derek Gripper - Guitar
Second live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Dr. Toumani Diabate - kora
Ahmed Diabate - kora
Balla Diabate - kora
This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Rubin Museum of Art
Arun Ramamurthy - violin
Jay Gandhi - bansuri
Vivek Pandya - tabla
Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan - mridangam
This live set is from Ragas Live 2020
Mangily, Madagascar
Monika Njava: voice, percussion
Teta: guitar, voice
Jean Piso: accordion, voice
This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal
Prince Nepali - sarangi
Vibha Saran Nepali - tabla
This live set is from Ragas Live Festival 2020
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Vikku Vinayakaram - ghatam
V. Selvaganesh - drum kit
Swaminathan - Kanjira, konnokol
This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Mysore, Karnataka, India.
Mysore Nagaraj - violin
Mysore Karthik - violin
Tumkur Ravishankar - mridangam
This live set is from Ragas Live Festival 2020 Pioneer Works Brooklyn, NY
Abhik Mukherjee - sitar
Samarth Nagarkar - vocals
Dibyarka Chatterjee - tabla
Live set from Ragas Live 2020
Pioneer Works Brooklyn, NYC, USA
Roopa Mahadevan - vocal
Arun Ramamurthy - violin
Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan - mridangam
Live from Rajasthan this set from Womanly Voices performed in front of Merrangahr Fort was produced with the support of Jodhpur Riff.
Live video produced for Jodhpur RIFF by Oijo Media
Jodhpur RIFF presents
Womanly Voices
Sumitra Devi - vocals, harmonium
Ganga & Sundar - vocals
Mohini Devi - vocals
Susheela - khartal, manjira
Shyam Rao - manjira
Asin Khan - sindhi sarangi, additional vocals
Sadik Khan - dholak
Location - Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur
This live set is from New Delhi , India
Gaurav Mazumdar -Sitar
This live set is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Flute Shashank- flute
Akkarai Subhalakshmi - violin
Patri Satish Kumar - mridangam
This live set is form Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Charumathi Raghuram - violin
Anantha R. Krishnan -mridangam
This live set is from Kamardanga, West Bengal, India
Parvathy Baul - vocals, ekthara, duggi, nupur
This live set is from San Raphael, CA, USA
Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri - Teentaal Tabla Solo (excerpt)
Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri - Tabla
Suhail Yusuf Khan - Sarangi
Ali Akbar College of Music Tabla Ensemble
Jim Santi Owen - Tabla, Morsing, Kanjira
Nilan Chaudhuri - Tabla
Rohan Krishnamurthy - Mridangam
William Rossel - Tabla
Producer - Jim Santi Owen
Sound Engineer - Neil Godbole
Filmed, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Airship Laboratories, Richmond, CA
Jim Santi Owen Music - All RIghts Reserved
12.21.2020
This live set is from San Rafael, CA, USA
Alam Khan -sarod
This live set is from El Clavo, Venezuela
Betsayda Machado - lead vocals and shakers
Adrian "Ote" Gomez - vocals and culoe' puya
Oscar Ruiz - vocals and shakers
Nereida Machado - vocals, shakers and dancing
Blanca Castillo - furruco
Jose Gregorio Gomez - chorus and charrasca
Asterio Betancourt - quinto and culoe' puya
Nelson Gomez - pujao, cumaco, paila and dancing
Youse Cardozo - conga, cumaco, paila and culoe' puya
Live from San Fransisco SFJAZZ Center
This set was produced with the support of SFJAZZ Center
Zakir Hussain - tabla
Rakesh Chaurasia - bansuri
Filmed at the SFJAZZ Center
San Francisco, C
11.29.2020
Live from B'nai Jeshurun NYC
This set from Andy Statman performed at B'nai Jeshurun NYC.
Andy Statman - clarinet, mandolin
Jay Gandhi - bansuri
David Ellenbogen - guitar
Ehren Hanson -tabla
This set was produced with the support of B’nai Jeshurun
11.22.2020
Live from Rajasthan this set from Dhun Dhora performed in front of Merrangahr Fort was produced with the support of Jodhpur Riff.
Live video produced for Jodhpur RIFF by Oijo Media
odhpur RIFF presents
*Dhun Dhora*
featuring the Dhol Drummers of Rajasthan
Dayam Khan - harmonium, lead vocals
Sardar Khan - Sindhi Sarangi, additional vocals
Ghafoor Khan - khartal
Chanan Khan - dhol
Swaroop Khan - dhol, dholak
Sattar Khan - dhol-cheep
Pyaru Khan - dhol-cheep
Location - Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur
©JodhpurRIFF 2020. All Rights Reserved
Director - Divya Bhatia, Festival Director Jodhpur RIFF
Video Producer - Kavi Bhansali
Sound - Kavi Bhansali/ Raghav Suthaud
Production Supervisor - Govind Ram Singh
Production Assist - Bhawani Singh
Editor -Vikash Gupta
Special Thanks to the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur
©JodhpurRIFF 2020. All Rights Reserved