Due to a delay in issuing visas for musicians traveling from New Delhi to New York, the performances of the closing presentation of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, the U.S. premiere of Roysten ...

In 2009, theatre director Roysten Abel had staged a theatrical concert, The Manganiyar Seduction, featuring over 40 Manganiyar folk musicians from Rajasthan. The set design was partly inspired by the ...

The director of the musical hopes to create a contemporary language for an art which seems to be relegated to a ‘nostalgic space’ “It’s a long story and if I start narrating how I came across the ...

Barkat Khan, now in his 60s, Khan sings with the same panache as he did when he was a boy. Over the years, whether singing at community events in his village, or performing at folk festivals in India ...

A chorus of village boys celebrate their musical heritage in a joyous production that challenges the rigid modern education system that threatens their traditions For acclaimed Indian theatre director ...

The stage is dark. As the shiny red curtain in one of the cubicles in the four-tiered imposing set parts, the little bulbs around it begin to glow. A moustachioed man in white dhoti, angarkha and a ...

The Muslim musicians in The Manganiyar Seduction come from northwestern India. Their instruments-string, percussion, wind, and voice-are traditional, as are their garments and the gestures of the ...

With the hour-long musical Manganiyar Classroom, the internationally-renowned director Roysten Abel aims to bring the glorious musical reserves of this community to the forefront. Abel has been ...

Needless to say, it was an intoxicating evening with a spiritual refuge when Managaniyar artists ‘Managaniyars of Marwad’ lifted the souls of music lovers at a concert on Sunday evening. They were ...

The Manganiyar’s performed their folk fusion to a roaring applause from Punekars. Prior to their performance, the six winners of the children’s drawing competition were felicitated. This was followed ...

* Deene Khan and Roots Music from Jaisalmer’s Chelak village raised around ₹1.93 lakh from crowdfunding. The music wafts in from the golden desert. You can see the Manganiyars, some on their ...