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Sangeet - Classical and Folk Music of India

Aug 22, 2026 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Sangeet Team (Dave, Jayashri, Ramaprasad, Rungun & Padma)

Presenting Indian Classical Music from the Indian sub-continent and anywhere else in the world too. We are five different DJs that present from our personal collections with our own introduction to the songs. We broadcast every Saturday 9:00 am to 12:00 on 103.3 FM (NJ,NY and PA).

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Sangeet - Classical and Folk Music of India
11:27 AM
Nithyasree Mahadevan - Sadaananda Thandavam - Bahudari
Nithyasree Mahadevan Sadaananda Thandavam - Bahudari Achutha Daasar
S. Nithyasree - Classical Vocal EMI 1994

Nithyasree Mahadevan was born in 1973 in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu, to Lalitha Sivakumar and Iswaran Sivakumar. Her paternal grandmother is D. K. Pattammal, and her grand-uncle is D. K. Jayaraman. Her maternal grandfather was the mridangam maestro, Palghat Mani Iyer.

with Bombay S. Ranjani (violin), J. Sivakumar (mridangam), V. Uma Shankar (ghatam) and Ganesan (ghatam)

11:05 AM
Devaki Pandit - Raag Bageshri - Madhyalaya & Drut Teental
Devaki Pandit Raag Bageshri - Madhyalaya & Drut Teental
Innersoul Ninaad Music 2001

Devaki Pandit was born in 1965 in Maharashtra. She is a disciple of Kishori Amonkar and Jitendra Abhisheki and belongs to the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana and Agra gharana.

> with Mangesh Mule (tabla), Sudhir Nayak (harmonium),

10:50 AM
Kadri Gopalnath - Saranam Bhava - Hamsavinodini
Kadri Gopalnath Saranam Bhava - Hamsavinodini Narayana Thirtha
A Tribute to Adolphe Sax Echo Recording Co. Pvt. Ltd. 1994

Kadri Gopalnath (1949 – 2019) pioneered the saxophone in Carnatic music. One of his teachers was vocalist and mridangam player T. V. Gopalakrishnan.

with A. Kanyakumari (violin), T. Bhaktavatsalam (mridangam), S. Karthik (ghatam), B. Rajasekar (morsing)

10:25 AM
K. V. Narayanaswamy - Devipaavane - Saveri
K. V. Narayanaswamy Devipaavane - Saveri Swathi Thirunal
Compositions of Swathi Thirunal EMI 1994
Palghat Kollengode Viswanathan Narayanaswamy (1923 – 2002) hails from Palghat, Kerala. His main guru was Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar.

> with J. Vaidhyanathan (mridangam), H.V. Srivatsan (violin), Palghat Sundaram (ghatam), and Smt. Padma Narayanaswamy (vocal support)

10:05 AM
Pt. D.K. Datar - Raga Bhoop
Pt. D.K. Datar Raga Bhoop
Heart Warming Melody Ishtar Music Pvt. Ltd. 1993

Damodar Keshav Datar (1932-2018) was a violinist born in Kurundwad, Kolhapur District, Maharashtra. He is a nephew of vocalist D. V. Paluskar (Gwalior gharana)

> with Omkar Gulawadi (tabla) .

9:59 AM
Female Assam soloist, singers from Siluk, Arbor Hills - Abor Song No.5
Female Assam soloist, singers from Siluk, Arbor Hills Abor Song No.5 traditional
Songs of Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and the Andamans V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records 1960

recorded in a village in Assam, a State in northeast India, in the region of Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar.

9:42 AM
Sowmya - Arukkut tan teriyum - Devamanohari
Sowmya Arukkut tan teriyum - Devamanohari Gopalakrishna Bharati
Carnatic Vocal EMI 1996

S. Sowmya (born in 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 of 11.

> with Embar S. Kannan (violin), Melakaveri K. Balaji (mridangam), S. Karthick (ghatam).

9:13 AM
Asad Ali Khan - Raga Darbari Kanada
Asad Ali Khan Raga Darbari Kanada
Rudraveena Doordarshan Archives

Asad Ali Khan was born in 1937 in Alwar, Rajasthan in 1937. He is the seventh generation of rudra veena players. His ancestors were court musicians in Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) and Jaipur (Rajasthan). The rudra veena, and the dhrupad style in general, has fallen out of favor with the younger generations. Asad Ali Khan died in 2011.

> with Gopal Das (pakhawaj)

9:03 AM
P. Unnikrishnan - Entho Prema (Varnam) - Surutti
P. Unnikrishnan Entho Prema (Varnam) - Surutti Veenai Kuppaiyer
Madrasil Margazhi 2003 Rajalakshmi Audio 2004

P. Unnikrishnan was born in 1966 in Palakkad, Kerala. He started learning Carnatic music at age 12 from V.L. Seshadri. He also received training from Dr. S. Ramanathan, Savithri Sathyamurthy and Calcutta K.S. Krishnamurthy. Besides classical music, he is also popular as a playback singer for Tamil films.

> with Vittal Ramamurhty (violin), K. Arun Prakash (mridangam), S. Karthick (ghatam)