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Dr. Jon Borthwick Higgins (18 September 1939 – 7 December 1984) attended Wesleyan University, which had a strong ethnomusicology program including T. Ranganathan. In the early 60s (long before it was fashionable), he went to South India on a Fulbright scholarship to learn from T. Ranganathan's brother, T. Viswanathan. Higgins is the first non-Indian to perform Carnatic music with a high level of proficiency.

[V. Tyagarajan: violin, T. Ranganathan: mridangam, V. Nagarajan: kanjira]

S. Sowmya (1969) is a Carnatic music singer. She learnt music initially from her father Dr. Srinivasan, and later from Dr. S.Ramanathan and T. Muktha. Sowmya made her concert debut at the age 11.

G. S. Sachdev (born Gurbachan Singh Sachdev, in Lyallpur, Punjab, 1935 – 2018) was a performer of the bansuri (bamboo flute).

Swapan Chaudhuri accompanies on tabla.

Dr. M. Lalitha and M. Nandini play electric violins. They are nieces of L. Shankar and L. Subramaniam.

The Mallik family traces its musical roots to the late 18th century, in the court of Dharbanga, in northeast India near Nepal.

Shashank Subramanyam was born on 14 October 1978 in Rudrapatna, Karnataka. He is widely acknowledged as a legend of the bamboo flute. His training has been mostly in vocal music, initially under his father, and then by Palghat K.V. Narayanaswami, and Hindustani music under Pandit Jasraj. He is largely self taught on the flute.

violin: Sriram Parasuram; mridangam: Mannargudi A. Easwaran; kanjira: P. Satish Kumar; morsing: B.V.S. Prasad.

Born in Mumbai in 1960, she started her early classical training under the guidance of Narayanrao Datar, the elder brother of violinist D. K. Datar. She learned music in the Jaipur-Atrauli style from her mother Manik Bhide, a senior disciple of Kishori Amonkar. She also received guidance from Ratnakar Pai. She also holds a Master's degree in Microbiology and earned a doctorate in Biochemistry from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. It was not until she completed her PhD that she even considered a professional career in music.

with Bharat Kamat (tabla), Dr. Arawind Thatte (harmonium)

Sheik Chinna Moulana (1924 – 1999), hailed from a family of legendary nadhaswaram players.

Vasant Rai (1931-1985) was a sarod player from Unjha, Gujarat. He studied under Allauddin Khan. He was based in New York, but his promising career was cut short by his early death.

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with Zakir Hussain on tabla

Thodur Madabusi Krishna (born 22 January 1976) is a Carnatic vocalist, writer, and activist. Krishna's parents ensured that he received exposure to the classical arts from a young age.

Recorded 16 May 2003. A "Viruttam" is a devotional verse sung in no fixed tala and are solely improvised using one or more ragams.

Violin: Ramakrishna Srinivasan. Mridangam: Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam.

Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari (popularly referred to as MLV) (3 July 1928 – 31 October 1990), was a contemporary of D.K. Pattammal and M.S. Subbulakshmi, and was a prime disciple of G.N. Balasubramaniam.

with T. Rukmini (violin) & Palghat T.S. Mani Iyer (mridangam)

Rudrapatna Keshavamurthy Suryanarayana (1937-2003) played the "Gayathri veena", which apparently has 17 sympathetic strings like a sitar, but I could find no good photographs of the instrument from the proper angle.

with K. Sivaraman (mridangam), Dayanand Mohite (ghatam), S. V. Giridhar (morsing),

R. Prasanna (better known as Guitar Prasanna), was born on 2 October 1970, and grew up in Chennai. He is a pioneer in performing Carnatic music on the electric guitar. He also plays jazz, progressive rock, and world fusion.

Accompanied by J. Vaidhyanathan (mridangam), S. Karthick (ghatam). This is in Raga Paras.

"Banaa" = bridegroom

Folk music from Rajasthan performed by members of the Langa community. This song acknowledges members of the various castes for the role they play during the wedding ceremony. The song begins with the line "Praises be to the groom with the fair complexion", Later are a series of requests: good weaver, you are my brother, give me a beautiful scarf, good cowherd, give me a cow, good goldsmith, you are my brother, give me ornaments, etc.