Kanjira is not the primary percussion instrument in Carnatic music. Why did you choose to focus on it? The kanjira is totally fascinating to me. In the right set of hands this tiny instrument can ...

I have to teach you new fingering techniques.” The student was G. Guru Prasanna, the noted kanjira artiste, who has shared the stage with veterans and rising stars alike. The guru was C.P. Vyasa ...

The double-ended mridangam and the small hand-drum known as the kanjira both feature in Glasheen’s three-part documentary, Hidden Drummers of India. A separate 45-minute documentary, Hidden ...

I have a two o' clock appointment with kanjira virtuoso, fusion percussionist and film music composer Selva Ganesh at his recording studio in Peliyar Kovil Theruvu. Call it the beat street.

“But my grandfather suggested taking up the kanjira, which, back then, was seen as a secondary instrument. He said, ‘Take up this instrument (kanjira) because we don’t have many people who ...

Whether it's fusion, world music, or New Age - many projects combine the elements of different cultures, the traditional and the modern. Since the Bollywood boom of the 1990s, if not before, the ...

Professional musician since 1981 performing primarily on drumset - the original contraption, throughout the 1980's to the present then percussion of North and South India, including tabla, ghatam, and ...

Kanjira artists start their preparation early. "If they replace the skin on the instrument, they have to spend time adjusting it and practising before playing in concerts," says Krishnamurthy.