“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 ...

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 ...

It takes many days to make a block of wood sing. And it takes exceptionally talented craftsmen to do it. The four families who still make the nadaswaram by hand in Narasingapettai (a village near ...

Class 12 student Karthik has made a Nadaswaram, a wind-based musical instrument which is usually made of wood, using stone in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai. A musician playing ‘Nadaswaram’ made by Karthik.

The pleasant notes of the nadaswaram enliven the spiritual ambience in Hindu temples and during auspicious occasions. Major shrines in South India open and close with a ritualistic nadaswaram recital.

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 ...

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 ...

Trichy: A Nadaswaram artist from Kumbakonam played the rare acoustic instrument made of granite after 15 years at Adi Kumbeswarar Temple in Kumbakonam at Thanjavur district, in view of the ongoing ...

If Indic art is an invitation to join the “class” that values the profound over the popular, then where does the nadaswaram’s mangala isai stand today? The nadaswaram, which was once called the mukha ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Aug 16 (ANI): Class 12 student Karthik has made a Nadaswaram, a wind-based musical instrument which is usually made of wood, using stone in Tamil Nadu's Madurai. Karthik ...