NYC Radio Live
Live performances and in-depth conversations with extraordinary musicians, artists, writers, and thinkers from more than 40 countries. Hosted by David Ellenbogen and broadcast on WKCR 89.9 FM in New York City. Creator of the 24-hour Ragas Live Festival, which debuted as a broadcast on WKCR in 2012 and is now presented annually at Pioneer Works.
Episodes
Aug 4, 2023
Aug 4, 2023
51 min
In anticipation of the Ragas Live Festival 2023 coming October 14-15 to Pioneer Works, we will be broadcasting this amazing set from 2022 featuring Kane Mathis on Kora and Roshni Samlal on Tabla. Kane Mathis, a man of many talents, also mixed and mastered this and all the recordings from Ragas Live Festival 2022. The radio broadcast will be at WKCR 89.9 FM-NY (www.wkcr.org) at 7PM on August 6, or you can enjoy here on the NYC Radio Live Podcast. Tix and info for Ragas Live Festival are available at www.ragaslive.comYou can also watch a video of this performance on YouTube here.
Aug 4, 2023
Aug 4, 2023
49 min
In anticipation of the Ragas Live Festival 2023 coming October 14-15 to Pioneer Works, we will be broadcasting this amazing set from 2022 featuring Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena and Sriram Raman on MridangamThe radio broadcast will be at WKCR 89.9 FM-NY (www.wkcr.org) at 7PM on August 6, or you can enjoy here on the NYC Radio Live Podcast. Tix and info for Ragas Live Festival are available at www.ragaslive.comYou can also watch a video of this performance on YouTube here.
Dec 23, 2021
Dec 23, 2021
1hr
We connect with Musekiwa Chingdoza from Zimbabwe for the Ragas Live Festival
Nov 30, 2021
Nov 30, 2021
1hr
Bansuri maestro Eric Fraser with Mir Naqibol Islam on tabla at the 2021 Ragas Live Festival.
Nov 23, 2021
Nov 23, 2021
1hr
Hamid Al-Saadi with Safaafir
Hamid Al-Saadi - vocal Amir ElSaffar - santur and vocal Dena El Saffar - joza, violin, and vocal Tim Moore - percussion George Ziadeh - oud Zahra Zubaidi - vocal Zahra Ali - vocal Omar Dewachi
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Nov 22, 2021
Nov 22, 2021
59 min
An interview with Parvathy Baul, conducted by David Ellenbogen, produced with the support of SACSA. for the Ragas Live Festival
Parvathy Baul is a practitioner, performer and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal, India. She is also an instrumentalist, storyteller and painter.
She has performed in over forty countries, including such prestigious concert halls and music festivals as the Noh Theater in Kyoto, the World Music Center in New York City, Melbourne Arts Center and the Festival of World Sacred Music in Fez, Morocco.
She has also collaborated with world’s leading theater director Eugenio Barba.
She visits several dance, theatre and music institutions across the globe in the capacity of a teacher.
The depth of her mesmerising performance is rooted in her deep spiritual practice.
It is described by critics as “riveting” and “spellbinding.”
Parvathy’s performance work emerges from a long lineage of master Baul singers, dancers, and spiritual teachers.
She studied closely with two of the most respected Baul singer-gurus of the previous generation, Sri Sanatan Das Thakur Baul and Sri Shashanko Goshai.
She was recognized by her gurus as both a musical and spiritual teacher in the Baul tradition, carrying forward their spiritual legacy.
Parvathy has co-founded Ekathara Kalari along with Sri Ravi Gopalan Nair, a non-profit institution promoting ancient Indian spiritual traditions, with an emphasis on Baul arts and practice.
As per her Guru Sri Sanatan Das Baul’s vision, she has established Sanatan Siddhashram, a traditional learning center for the Baul tradition in Birbhum district, West Bengal, India.
Recognising her unbroken commitment to the tradition, the government of India conferred upon her the most esteemed Sangeet Natak Akademi award in the year 2019. It is the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists.
She was felicitated by honorable President Sri Ramnath Kovind.
Nov 19, 2021
Nov 19, 2021
1hr 1 min
The opening set of the Ragas Live Festival 2021. Subscribe for weekly updates with the following 24 sets...
Nov 10, 2021
Nov 10, 2021
59 min
This first live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Cape Town, South Africa
Derek Gripper - Guitar
Second live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Dr. Toumani Diabate - kora
Ahmed Diabate - kora
Balla Diabate - kora
Mar 29, 2021
Mar 29, 2021
59 min
This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Rubin Museum of Art
Arun Ramamurthy - violin
Jay Gandhi - bansuri
Vivek Pandya - tabla
Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan - mridangam
Mar 15, 2021
Mar 15, 2021
59 min
This live set is from Ragas Live 2020
Mangily, Madagascar
Monika Njava: voice, percussion
Teta: guitar, voice
Jean Piso: accordion, voice
Mar 8, 2021
Mar 8, 2021
59 min
This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal
Prince Nepali - sarangi
Vibha Saran Nepali - tabla
Mar 1, 2021
Mar 1, 2021
59 min
This live set is from Ragas Live Festival 2020
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Vikku Vinayakaram - ghatam
V. Selvaganesh - drum kit
Swaminathan - Kanjira, konnokol
Feb 22, 2021
Feb 22, 2021
59 min
This live set is from Ragas Live 2020 Mysore, Karnataka, India.
Mysore Nagaraj - violin
Mysore Karthik - violin
Tumkur Ravishankar - mridangam
Feb 15, 2021
Feb 15, 2021
1hr 42 sec
This live set is from Ragas Live Festival 2020 Pioneer Works Brooklyn, NY
Abhik Mukherjee - sitar
Samarth Nagarkar - vocals
Dibyarka Chatterjee - tabla
About NYC Radio Live
Perhaps one of the only radio broadcasts to blossom into a major live event (Ragas Live Festival), NYC Radio Live is the podcast/archive of the musician and producer, David Ellenbogen. As broadcast on WKCR 89.9 FM-NY, it has featured over 300 live performances, interviews with musicians from over 40 countries, and conversations with great artists, directors, writers, and thinkers. Popular episodes have included members of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Sun Ra’s bands (McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, Reggie Workman, Knoel Scott); rock stars from the Allman Brothers, Steely Dan, and The Meters (Jaimoe, Walter Becker, George Porter Jr). legends of African Music (Toumani Diabate, Hugh Masekela, Ladysmith Black Mombazo); maestros of India (Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad Chaurasia); groundbreaking composers (Terry Riley) and even award winning directors (Alex Gibney). The Ragas Live Festival was born out of these increasingly ambitious radio shows, and began in the WKCR studio in 2012 when 50 musicians volunteered to play continuous sets for 24 hours, co-creating our historic first broadcast. In 2020, the event featured over 90 artists in 15 cities and 7 countries. The festival continues today as an epic 24 hour live event at Pioneer Works, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which is simultaneously broadcast on WKCR and podcast on NYC Radio Live. To listen to your favorite Ragas Live Festival performances and to discover much more, subscribe below.