The Carnatic Music festival is here, starting this Tuesday Dec 15, 2009. A series of concerts encompassing beginners to stalwarts will take place in Chennai at various Gana Sabhas (Concert Halls) For detailed schedules checkout the following links all concerts music academy Anyone have reviews on the movie Margazhi Raagam? I was reading up some […]

Improvisation is what makes each of us unique. The moment we stop improvising, we become one with “status quo”. In Carnatic music, extempore improvisation on how a particular song is rendered by the artists is called “Manodharma”. How is Manodharma really done? For one thing, it has to bring out the essence of the raaga, […]

Last night we introduced user powered ranking. What does that mean? When you search for music, in the search results along with each track name, you will also see to rank up the track and to rank down the track. Soon, as more and more users rank the tracks, the best of the best will […]

It is such a pleasure to listen to very young children rendering exceptional quality of classical music. And its nice to see media encouraging them by bringing such unique talent to forefront. A professional music group exclusively featuring young children called “Issai Mazhalai” in Chennai, India worked with one of the TV channels to showcase […]

Sanjay Subramanyam will be performing on Saturday at the Thoreau School Auditorium from 6 – 10 PM, don’t miss it! Needless to say, he is a splendid artist, considered one of the best in the next generation of carnatic musicians. He always has some wonderful elements of surprise to his concert. Here are the concert […]

I thought the two raagas are different, I have recently come to know that there is some debate over whether they are or not! Wanted to share with you some discussion I found interesting on this topic Here is a snippet from a thread on line … “Padma: Brindavani is different from Brindavanasaranga. There are […]

One of the raagsters uploaded a beautiful bhajan Subhan Allah, just a couple of lines but as we all know, to get the taste of honey we need not drink the whole bottle. Thanks to vpanakanti for the uploads.

“Sanjeev Borbora lives on”, this was a comment I read somewhere on twitter a few days ago, pointing to raagabox.com as the source of inspiration for that comment. At raagabox we are of course very much delighted by such comments, however that’s not the point of this post. The point is, how can we track […]

My guru Aparna Balaji is organizing a Carnatic Choir to raise funds for the Hindu Mission Hospital in Trichy, India. Here are the details on the concert on raagabox events page, try to support the good cause Carnatic Choir