Qawwali has long been an art form that transcends borders and generations, drawing audiences into a trance-like state of rhythm and devotion. Think of yesteryear legends like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, ...

The singers in Pakistani ensemble the Saami Brothers like to take their time onstage—each vocal step moves the performance upward gradually toward a collective sense of ecstasy. That deliberate pacing ...

Her band comprised pianist Fergus McCreadie – who was recently nominated for the Mercury Music Prize with his jazz album Forest Floor – saxophonist Matt Carmichael and award-winning fiddler and jazz ...

A celebration of the depth of the world’s music. North Indian Classical, live concerts of all genres of music, from African acoustic to Gnawa, American bluegrass to Mexican traditional, electronica to ...

Thanks to a Chicago foundation, Houston’s Sonny Mehta will spend the next year and change exploring the spiritual connection between traditional South Asian music and gospel sounds from these shores.

During remarks, Mehta spoke about wanting to carry the rich qawwali tradition forward by incorporating modern female writers and contemporary subject matter into their performances. He said that ...

Just as English has become the world’s universal language and the dollar its standard currency, so too has American popular music become the primary stylistic model, threatening to further melt ...

*I had to watch a whole lot of Bollywood qawwali item numbers to figure out how actors are supposed to behave during a qawwali song. I'm still working on that problem, but I have a coherent theory now ...

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