This playlist features Pakistani and Indian world music artists I deeply admire. They bent the rules and took chances, creating something new and sublime along the way. The most famous female qawwal, ...

Qawwali is a musical form associated with the sama’, spiritual concert, of the Chishti Sufi Order. In its religious context it functions as a way to bring members of the order into a trance-like state ...

The Pakistani qawwali icon sang words written centuries ago and died decades ago. He’s got a new album out. In June 2021, in a Nissen hut in the middle of Wiltshire, England, less than 30 miles from ...

An internationally acclaimed UK-based ensemble of 9th-generation qawwals will come to Norden Farm Centre for the Arts.

Riyaaz Qawwali has been performing the gripping musical style of qawwali for over 16 years. The musicians, all settled in Houston, have roots from India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh with various ...

The singers in Pakistani ensemble the Saami Brothers like to take their time onstage—each vocal step moves the performance upward gradually toward a collective sense of ecstasy. That deliberate pacing ...

KUALA LUMPUR: World-renowned Qawwali maestro Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is coming to Malaysia on Nov 1 at Idea Live Arena, 3 Damansara in Kuala Lumpur. This highly anticipated concert will be even ...

Qawwali, the soulful Sufi devotional music of Pakistan and India, no longer enjoys the mainstream attention it did before its greatest practitioner, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, died in 1997. There are ...

Fresh off his Bollywood playback debut in the Akshay Kumar-starrer Sarfira, singer Sagar Bhatia returned to Hyderabad for his third performance in the city. The evening was full of energy as the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Following a sold-out WMI performance at the historic Cathedral of St. John the ...

Celebrated Qawwali maestro Sagar Bhatia is poised to embark on a 15-city nationwide tour of unparalleled scale from March to June 2025. ‘Sagar Wali Qawwali Bharat Tour’ will witness the Indian ...