Just close your eyes and listen. At a performance by Gaavani, happening this weekend in North Jersey, you might hear a bow across the strings of violin. Or hands tapping the skins of a bongo-like drum ...

Gaavani, a group that celebrates women in Sikh music, will hold its first D-FW concerts this weekend. The Saturday and Sunday concerts at area gurdwaras, or Sikh houses of worship, will showcase Sikh ...

A musician has said Western exam boards’ formal recognition of Sikh sacred music will help more people to understand her passion, and her talent. Student Avneet Hayer, from Coventry, learned to play ...

A new music album called Sangat was released in the Bay Area on June 6th, 2025, by Qais Essar and Sonny Singh, both first-generation children of immigrants from Afghanistan and India. The album ...

Students will be able to take exams in Sikh sacred music for the first time, after a UK board added the devotional singing tradition to its examination system. The eight-grade syllabus has long ...

Sikh sacred music, also known as Kirtan, has become part of the universal eight-grade music examination system. Five Indian string instruments, dilruba, taus, esraj, sarangi and saranda, can be ...