MUMBAI: Red FM is taking its award wining property, Red Mike, across 11 key markets nationwide with a programming initiative and campaign titled – aptly for a station for expression – Red Mike Par Khul Ke Batao, Sab Ko Sunao. The network, which is taking Red Mike to Ahmedabad, Baroda, Kanpur, Jaipur, Indore, Lucknow, Bhopal, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar, Pune and Nagpur,...
MUMBAI: 'Off The Map', an album featuring Indian Tabla artist Sandeep Das, has won a Grammy nomination in the 'Best Classical Crossover Album'.
Das, one of the prominent artistes from India, features in 'Sulvasutra', which is about the creation of the world. The piece was specially written for Das by a commission of Carnegie Hall.
The artist has been working with silk road ensemble and multiple Grammy-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma for the past ten years. His previous album 'The Rain' was also nominated for Grammy in 2004.
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MUMBAI: Mahatma is one of the inimitable albums produced by Times Music which encompasses the truthfulness of Mahatma Gandhi, his simplicity, honesty, love for Children and love for God. The album is an attempt to make the children of the current generation, who only know of Mahatma Gandhi through text books, internet and pictures, aware of the famous spiritual songs created by Bapu and the distinctive learning behind the songs.
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MUMBAI: There is no doubt that Sheila Ki Jawani... is rocking the Bollywood song charts lately, but ever heard the rock version of it? Well now you can on Kukure Desi Beats Rock On with MTV- The hunt for the hottest desi rock band in India! It was a fiery night when Sunidhi Chauhan was spotted performing an absolute sizzling and head-banging rock version of Sheila Ki Jawani... on the sets of MTV's show Rock On
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Having been born outside of India, I totally connect with keeping the Indian-ness alive in �videsh'. Neeraj Shridhar had his father, an English teach with fantastic knowledge of Urdu, and a very sureeli mother who always kept him connected to Hindi film music and his Indian roots.
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MUMBAI: ArtistAloud.com, India's premiere digital platform that provides music lovers access to unreleased music, which they can sample, buy as well as share with the world recently announced its latest music showcase platform the �LaunchCast'.
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MUMBAI: Music Maestro Jagjit Singh become the first Ghazal singer in the world to perform with 30 musicians before hundreds of specially invited guests in a captivating 1- hour concert held in Mumbai on Tuesday, to announce the launch of first-of-its-kind website www.ghazalsymphony.com....
BANGLORE: 92.7 Big FM Bangalore announced the commencement of the second season of �Bendethu Bengaluru' (Speak out Bangalore), a month-long interactive initiative that will allow the common man's participation in solving problems that plague society in general – these include issues like water shortage, auto rickshaw hassles and rise in fares, tree-cutting, road digging due to the metro, corruption, the film industry, etcetera.
The Karnataka Lok Ayukta Chief Santosh Hegde launched the campaign literally with a hammershot, by striking a gong and signing a board.
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MUMBAI: The Mahindra Group on Wednesday announced the launch of the first season of the Mahindra Blues Festival The festival will bring international Blues superstars like Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Shemekia Copeland, and Matt Schofield to Mumbai. The festival will also feature home grown talent like Soulmate from Shillong, Saturday Night Blues band from Kolkata and The Luke Kenny Mojo Jukebox. The two-day weekend festival will be held on February 5-6, 2011 at the Mehboob Studio, Mumbai.
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New Delhi: The Ministry of Culture organized a meeting of eminent musicians from both, the Carnatic and Hindustani traditions of classical music, under the aegis of the All India Musicians Group (AIMG), with the Prime Minister (who is also Minister for Culture) Dr. Manmohan Singh in Delhi on Wednesday....
