All Amrit and his friends wanted to do was play the kind of music they would have liked to hear-if it existed. So they got together in 1990, called themselves Nepathya, which means "Backstage", and ...

I'm on a brick patio at Northfield, a popular café in Kathmandu, Nepal, strumming “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” on my guitar alongside Les Thompson, a founding member of the pioneering SoCal folk and ...

After the devastating earthquake in 2015, the Nepali classical musical band Sukarma travelled to Switzerland to perform concerts to raise money for reconstruction back home. This time, the ...

Gandharva and Prastar are the two other Nepali bands playing at the Jazzmandu Festival starting on March 11. The other one was Cadenza — the band who introduced Jazz festival in Nepal.Gandharva ...

KATHMANDU: The audition round for the Global Battle of Bands Challenge 2009 held at Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory (KJC) on October 27 saw many rocking bands belt out various genres. Among the many that ...

Nepali Folk instrumental band, Kutumb Band, has emphasized the significance of raising awareness among the younger generation about traditional music. Talking to SBS Nepali, two band members, Pavit ...

The small country of Nepal stretches from Mt. Everest in the north to the Indian border in the south. Nepal's musical traditions reflect its geography, from Himalayan folk tunes to Indian ragas. Reese ...

ALBANY — "No matter where you go, no matter where you take me, with this heart I am always Nepali," Saroj Maharjan said, translating the lyrics to a song by 1974 AD, one of his favorite Nepali bands. ...

Carnatic 2.0 band played a mix of traditional Carnatic ragas and retro-Bollywood songs. In order to celebrate 75 years of diplomatic ties between India and Nepal, the Embassy of India in Kathmandu ...

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