On 1 April 2026, UNESCO convened the inaugural meeting of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) Friends Group (For CCI / ...

Dressed in a white shirt and black waistcoat, Balendra performs in Raw Barz’s signature open, public-facing cypher spaces, with live crowds gathered around. Even then, his style is restrained, ...

Jazzmandu Festival 2025 was nearly cancelled, but the organisers decided to go ahead with it anyway, believing in the power of jazz for healing and restoration. The Surya Nepal Jazzmandu is back in ...

Gajendra Maharjan, left, Shreesha Maharjan, middle, and Surendra Maharjan, right, perform music from the Newari region of Nepal on traditional drums at the Nepali Jatra festival at the Longmont Museum ...

NEPALI SOUL: Ashik Shrestha took his passion for music with him when he went to work in Dubai, and now performs in band (far left), singing Nepali songs for fellow migrant workers. This is the 68th ...

When Dil Khadka was a boy in Bhutan, he made his first instrument — a bamboo flute — by hand. Inspired by the music he heard on the radio, he cut bamboo from the forest and burnt holes into it using a ...

The global music industry is increasingly becoming borderless, allowing talent from every corner of the world to influence mainstream charts. Among the most notable success stories in recent years is ...

Bhosle delivered an evergreen superhit with her song Yo Ho Mero Pran Bhanda Pyaro Maitighar for the 1966 Nepali film ...

I'm on a brick patio at Northfield, a popular café in Kathmandu, Nepal, strumming “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” on my guitar alongside Les Thompson, a founding member of the pioneering SoCal folk and ...

Nepal mourns the passing of iconic Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle, remembering her contributions to Nepalese music in the '70s ...