Shortly after many failed attempts at tabla, I fell in love with the folk drum of Punjab: the dhol.It is a barrel-shaped, double-headed, wooden shell drum, slung over the shoulder and known for ...

A dhol, dholak and tabla kept harmony with the harmonium and the benjo for a nice little instrumental until the next artiste was ready. And then she came to liven up the atmosphere.

A dhol costs between Rs 1,000 and Rs 3,000 and it takes about two to three days to make one. "Since people don't have an ear for our music, our only patrons are the temples and Puja organizers.

The sounds of dhol tasha are in the air as neighbourhood groups gear up for the upcoming festival season, practising beats traditional and new. Percussion has long been woven into India’s cultural ...

The reimagined track was dropped by Warner Bros. India two days before the release of James Gunn’s upcoming film ‘Superman’ ...

Ashim Sengupta has been in the music industry for over 40 years, mainly as a percussionist, sometimes accompanying artistes on the tabla, dhol or pakhwaj or sometimes playing in background scores or ...

As the days pass, the harmonium, dhol and tabla are being reserved for special occasions while modern instruments take their place the rest of the time. Now Durga puja is going on, it will continue ...

And now for something a little bit different. The marvellous Dhol Foundation will be raising the roof at Plug ‘n’ Play studios in Reading on Saturday.

Filmmaker Priyadarshan was so frustrated by the number of dhols broken by Tusshar Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Khemu and Rajpal Yadav on the sets of Dhol that he ordered 500 dhols in a fit of ...

Founded in 1999 by the Berkeley Sikh Student Association, Dhol Di Awaz — which translates as “the sound of the dhol [an Indian drum]” — is the oldest bhangra competition on the West Coast.