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 ...

It takes many days to make a block of wood sing. And it takes exceptionally talented craftsmen to do it. The four families who still make the nadaswaram by hand in Narasingapettai (a village near ...

“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 ...

Madurai: M S Ponnuthai, the first woman artist to play nadaswaram, a musical instrument popular in the South, has died. She was 83 and died last night at her residence here due to stomach ulcer and ...

Eminent nadaswaram artiste Thiruvizha Jayashankar has won the Sree Guruvayurappan Chembai Puraskaram instituted by the Guruvayur Devaswom in connection with Guruvayur Ekadasi. The award is given in ...

If Indic art is an invitation to join the “class” that values the profound over the popular, then where does the nadaswaram’s mangala isai stand today? The nadaswaram, which was once called the mukha ...

Trichy: Sheik Mahaboob Subhani, prominent nadaswaram musician and Padma Shri awardee, passed away on Wednesday due to a brief illness in Srirangam, Trichy. He was 71 years old.Subhani is survived by ...

THRISSUR: It is believed since ancient times that percussion instruments, Nadaswaram and thavil, a traditional percussion orchestra being performed during festival processions and auspicious rituals ...

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 ...

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 ...

If on an evening, you find yourself in Chennai, do go visit a temple. Not the quiet ones in the bylanes, but the more boisterous ones that surround themselves with pomp and colour, just the right ...

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 ...