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 ...

Gandharva and Prastar are the two other Nepali bands playing at the Jazzmandu Festival starting on March 11. The other one was Cadenza — the band who introduced Jazz festival in Nepal.Gandharva ...

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Anna Marie Stirr has completely immersed herself into the world of Nepali dohori folk duets, not just doing a PhD on the subject and publishing a book, but also performing the song routines. Anna ...

Folk singer Pashupati Sharma removed ‘Lootna sake loot Kanchha, aru deshma paidaina, Nepalmai ho chhoot,’ a satirical Nepali song he penned against misrule, corruption and extravagant expenditure, ...

Shanta Gautam, who has been in the teaching profession for a long time, has written stories, songs, and poems that are of interest to children and has also collected folk songs of various ethnic ...

When Deepti D’Cunha was on her maiden visit to Sikkim in 2011, she found herself being chased by a song everywhere. The “immensely hummable” tune put her in “a skippy, joyous mood” every time, even ...

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 ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

Ram Prasad Kadel, the founder and curator of the museum, has been collecting the musical instruments since 1995 together with his wife Nanda Sharma. His passion has taken him to all 77 districts of ...