From October 18-19, the 14th annual Ragas Live Festival will feature 24 hours of continuous, transcendent music in the Pioneeer Works Main Hall.
First rooted from an in-studio broadcast at Columbia University’s radio station in 2012, the station immediately grew into a global listening audience. The annual presentation of 50-70 musicians and expansive presentation of music inspired by the Indian classical tradition, became central to the “The Raga Renaissance” musical movement as dubbed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR.
Ragas Live Festival is inspired by raga, the classical music tradition from South Asia, where specific modes blend with the moods and energy of different times of day, fro sunrise to the darkest hours of the night.
This October, Legendary maestros of the South Asian classical tradition will perform alongside groundbreaking contemporary artists in a musical journey through day and night for a continuous 24 hour cycle. More than 50 artists will be performing at the festival, from some of the greatest living sitar players, Shahid Parvez and Purbayan Chatterjee, to the ecstatic Qawwali of the Saami Brothers.
Doors at Ragas Live Festival will open on October 18 at 6 p.m. with music beginning at at 7 p.m. The festival will be held at 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234.
Tickets can be found here.
The 2025 Artist Lineup:
October 18
7:00 PM ARAJ: Ishaan Ghosh, S. Akash, Mehtab Ali, Pratik Singh & Vanraj
Shastri ( tabla, bansuri, sitar, vocals, sarangi)
8:25 PM Charumathi Raghuraman, Anantha R. Krishnan & Giridhar Udupa
(violin, mridangam, ghatam)
9:50 PM eucademix (Yuka Honda) (electronics)
10:50 PM Saami Brothers (Qawwali)
October 19
12:15 AM Light Over Shadow (Zakir Hussain Tribute): Sikiru Adepoju,
Selvaganesh, Ishaan Ghosh, and special guests (global percussion)
1:40 AM Arun Ramamurthy Trio – (Arun Ramamurthy, violin; Sameer Gupta,
drums; Damon Banks, bass)
2:55 AM Sanaan Mahboop (Afghan rubab)
4:00 AM Asif Khan, Karamat Khan Kalavant (vocal, tabla) (Ghazal set)
5:05 AM Vishnu Ramprasad and Praveen Narayan (navtar, tabla)
6:15 AM Radhika Samson & Tejas Tope, (surbahar, pakawaj)
7:45-8:35 Whispering Worlds w/ Aaron Shragge (John Hassell Tribute) (Aaron
Shragge -trumpet/shakuhachi/fx/composition; Luke Schwartz, guitar;
Damon Banks, bass; Deric Dickens, drums)
9:05 AM Vinay Desai & Vivek Pandya (santoor, tabla)
10:05 AM Purbayan Chatterjee & Amit Kavthekar (sitar. tabla)
11:30 AM NESOM honors Allah Rakha and Zakir Hussain
12:30 PM Mandolin U. Rajesh & Swaminathan Selvaganesh (mandolin, kanjira)
1:55 PM Priya Purushothaman. Pratyush Goberdha, & Tejas Tope (vocal,
sarangi, tabla)
3:10 PM Anand Avirmed – (Mongolian throat singing & horsehead fiddle)
3:50 PM Shahid Parvez & Nitin Mitta (sitar, tabla)
5:35 PM L.Shankar w/ Selvaganesh, Swaminathan Selvaganesh, Amit Kavthekar (10-string stereophonic Double Violin, kanjiras, tabla)
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