IndianRaga was invited by the UAE Prime Minister’s Office as the ONLY cultural performance at the prestigious World Government Summit in Dubai in February 2018. Staged at the most prime slot in the conference, we closed for Christine Lagarde of the IMF and opened for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s keynote speech at the conference. Here is a low-res video of the performance taken by audience members and the media, and the performance itself was covered widely by national UAE and Indian media including Khaleej Times and The Times of India.

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IndianRaga was invited to present a lec-dem at KPMG’s Chicago office during the company’s Asian Cultural Event. 2015 Fellow Jai Sovani-Garud presented a concert followed by a 30-min talk by IndianRaga Founder Sriram Emani on his journey from a corporate role in management consulting to starting an arts education company.

This video was recorded informally, so the quality is not hi-res.

Below are a few pictures from the event!

Bank of Tokyo (MUFG) was the presenting sponsor for the 2015 IndianRaga Fellowship. They invited IndianRaga Fellows and Founder Sriram Emani to present at their New York and New Jersey offices on the theme of Creative Leadership in the Corporate World : Lessons from the Performing Arts. Through live examples of improvization with IndianRaga Fellows Roopa Mahadevan, Sumhith Veda Aradhyula and Souryadeep Bhattacharyya, moderated by Sriram Emani, we conducted a discussion on similarities between the music and corporate worlds, where creativity, innovation, and teamwork are nurtured and prized.

IndianRaga Fellows 2016 were invited to perform at the New Brunswick Cultural Center’s Indo-American Festival earlier this year. Fellows Apoorvaa Deshpande, Divya Khandekar and Santosh Baynes traveled to New Jersey to perform at the event, accompanied by Ashish Deshpande on tabla. Thanks to MELA Arts Connect and Heena Patel for the opportunity, and to Scott Mendenko / Mascott Maker Productions for the pictures!

Videos will be up soon, but below are a few pictures from the evening!

IndianRaga Backstage brings professional musicians, who are also role models to younger musicians, to perform foundational pieces of Indian classical music that the audience can sing along with. The performers engage with the audience, and create an informal setting where you can let your heart out and sing along. It is engaging, accessible and non-judgemental for kids and adults alike.

Special thanks to Veena Pandiri, Varun Chitnis, and the entire team at NotesnBeats for organizing this concert and getting the project off to a great start!

Videos from the evening are below:

Varnam Mashup

Raravenu by the Audience!

Triloka Mata

Thillana and Mangalam

Excited about IndianRaga’s partnership with the Eye on India Festival 2015 in North America!

IndianRaga Fellows Geeta Shankar, Hrishikesh Chary and Aditya Sriram present a scintillating concert at the Eye On India Festival Chicago – San Jose version, featuring Indian art music from the North, South, East and West of India to a global audience at the San Jose Museum of Art on June 18 2015! The team is excited to present an interactive hour of music, and its lot of fun! This is the first of many IndianRaga Fellow Showcases to come!

Videos will be up soon, but below are a few pictures from the evening!

IndianRaga Fellows were invited by Joe’s Pub, one of the most respected performance platforms in New York City where Amy Winehouse and Adele made their US headlining concert debuts, to present a full prime time concert by the RagaTone Ensemble. IndianRaga’s RagaTone Ensemble is a raga-jazz band that fuses popular soundtracks from Cinema, Indian Classical and pop culture to create a unique sound guided by improvisation. Audiences love listening to their favorite themes of all time, with spontaneous raga and jazz improvisations by some of the top, dynamic young musicians today. East meets west as mridangam, sarod, saxophone, drums create a new global sound.

Here’s the link of the event on Joe’s Pub website

Below are Videos and a few pictures from the evening!

RagaBond – Select Clips

Hamsadhwani – Select Clips

Malkauns – Select Clips

IndianRaga Fellows were invited by Chicago’s iconic arts institution, the Chicago Cultural Center, in association with the Eye on India festival to present a full length concert. Fellows NCS Ravali, Jai Sovani-Garud, Akshay Anantapadmanabhan, Souryadeep Bhattacharyya, along with Sanjay Chandran, presented a spectacular, high-quality concert with both traditional Carnatic and Hindustani styles.

Here’s the link to the event on the website

Videos will be up soon, but below are a few pictures from the evening!

IndianRaga is honored to have been invited by the world’s foremost performing arts institution, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, to present a classical Indian concert by IndianRaga Fellows at the Gen Y Raga Forum. Post the concert, IndianRaga Founder and CEO Sriram Emani, and Fellow Roopa Mahadevan were invited to speak on a panel about the trends and challenges in Indian classical performing arts today. Performers were IndianRaga Fellows from 2013, 2014 and 2015 – Roopa Mahadevan (New York), Souryadeep Bhattacharyya (Atlanta), Sumhith Veda Aradhyula (Tucson, AZ) and Aditya Sriram (Fremont, CA).

Videos and  a few pictures from the evening are below:

Moksha

Barse Badariya