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 ...

For almost two years now, with temple festivals being muted due to the pandemic, the strident notes of the nadaswaram have hardly been heard. Except of course if you live next door to someone like ...

Kumbakonam: It was a mellifluous nadaswaram programme by N. Swaminathan, asthana nadaswaram vidwan of Sri Adhikumbeswaraswamy temple at Kumbakonam on Friday to celebrate Saraswathi Puja. Sitting ...

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 ...

M. Neelakantan remembers a time not too long ago, when there weren’t enough nadaswaram and thavil musicians available to render the ‘mangala isai’ at weddings and temple festivals. “With just around ...

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 ...

CHENNAI, (IANS) – Music maestro Seshampatti T. Sivalingam, a doyen of ‘Nadaswaram’, has been conferred with Padma Shri award. Sivalingam was an ‘A’ grade artist with the All India Radio and has ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

UDUPI: Sheik Jaleel Saheb (53) from Padugrama, Kaup, is a picture of communal harmony in coastal parts of the state, which have been wracked by communal incidents in the recent past.Jaleel has a ...