Inside buses on their daily commute Nepalis are used to listening to familiar-sounding songs that feature alternating female and male voices, responding to one another, often cheekily. Called lok ...

Lochan Rijal is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and scholar of ethnomusicology. He is a researcher of Nepali folk ...

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Singer Shrinkhala Joshi decided to shoot her Nepali folk song music video on Sydney trains, wearing traditional Nepali attire. The song titled "Sydney Jhaney Rail" translates to "the train that goes ...

Samundra band, an ensemble that plays age-old Nepali tunes, recomposing many in new forms, is known for updating cherished old music for contemporary times. With members Anil Gandharba on sarangi and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A self-taught 25-year-old musician from Darjeeling, Ankita Chettri, was given a unique opportunity to teach 30-odd musicians from across the world a Nepali song in Germany. Ankita was selected for ...