The guitars screamed, the drums hammered and the crowd sang along—not in English, but in Bangla. That night in September, we pushed through the throng at Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab in Pantego, Texas, ...
Five miles of cables, forty vocalists and instrumentalists under eighteen, and a total of at least one hundred musicians, more than two centuries of music from the erstwhile Bengal province and ...
“The kids come here because their parents push them to come,” said Athena Akram, instructor at the Bangla School of Music. The tiny school, which nurtures the music, language and culture of Bangladesh ...
HYDERABAD : Bengali music has always been a significant part of our country’s cultural heritage. Recently, the Bengal Unbound concert, organised by Hyderabad Bengalee Samity at Shilpakala Vedika, ...