“The kids come here because their parents push them to come,” said Athena Akram, instructor at the Bangla School of Music. The tiny school, which nurtures the music, language and culture of ...

Musicians Emon Chowdhury and Hashim Mahmud have woven together tribal and folk traditions in a new love song, “Baaji,” the ...

Renowned musician Nakib Khan is marking 50 years of his musical journey with a grand celebration in Dhaka. The event, titled ...

By the summer of 1971, Bob Dylan was something of an apparition. He'd moved back to New York's Greenwich Village with his rapidly growing family, but ...

After more than a year away, Coke Studio Bangla is making a comeback. The third season of Coca-Cola’s popular music platform ...

In the quiet hours of early Saturday morning, Bangladesh bid farewell to one of its most cherished cultural figures. Mustafa Zaman Abbasi—eminent musicologist, author, singer, and television ...

This will help in making liturgy and church music more participatory" Bangladesh has about 400,000 Catholics in a population of more than 160 million in the Muslim-majority nation. “I think each ...

The playback maestro Born in 1955 in Rajshahi, Kishor learned music at an early age. He later moved to Dhaka, established himself as a music icon and became a household name in Bangladesh and among ...