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

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

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 

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

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This is the first podcast release of a set from Ragas Live Festival 2019.  The event was broadcast live on WKCR 89.9 FM-NY in front of an enthusiastic audience at Pioneer Works.  

Saraswathi Ranganthan is performing the veena here and was joined by her Raghavan Sai on Mridangam.  In a spontaneous decision Swaminathan Selvganesh who had played an amazing set earlier in the evening sat in on the set.

Ragas Live Festival is a 24 hour annual broadcast with over 60 musicians.  We will return in 2020 - stay tuned!

Saraswathi brings with her a legacy of firsts. She is the first Indian woman and Veena artiste to win a Chicago Music Award in its 35-year history, the first Veena artiste to perform as an orchestra member of Disney’s Jungle Book production and the first Veena artiste to receive a $10,000 grant from the Logan Foundation in Chicago. She attributes her path-carving success to the inclusive energy in her music and in her life. Her goal? Bring artists and listeners together as one community united in music and understanding. – worded by Stephanie Jones, Jazzspeak.org

Saraswathi constantly endeavors for sounds of the Veena to reach a cross cultural global audience. She learned Veena from her mother Shantha Ranganathan and from Karnataka Kalashree EP Alamelu in Bangalore.  She has been performing and teaching for over three decades now.

Saraswathi also has the distinction as being the first Veena artiste whose original multi-lingual song “Ennai Azhaithaen – I embraced me” was commissioned by the Chicago Humanities Fest.

Saraswathi is the first Veena artiste to perform live music for Chicago International Moves & Music Fest with original score for screening of the movie Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances.