TODAY Ragas Live Festival: Friday June 14th!

Tune in all day Friday, June 14, 2013, to hear 24 hours of live in-studio performances of Indian Classical Music! The festival will begin at midnight on Thursday June 13th and end at midnight on Friday June 14th. Raga, which literally means, "to color the mind," is a musical mode in Indian Classical Music that corresponds with specific times of the day or the night. Musicians performing in the festival will select Ragas that correspond to the time of their performance. Read more for the schedule of the festival: 12am BRM Radio Jam 1am Kanika Pandey, Arun Ramamurthy, Samir Chatterjee 2am Samir Chatterjee, Dan Weiss, and Arun Ramamurthy 3am Dinesh Mirchandani and Aditya Narayan Banerjee 4am Gargi Shinde and Jin Won 5am Ajana Roy and Michael Lukshis 6am Mithun Radhakrishnan and Bala Skandan 7am Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury and Ehren Hanson 8am Roger Lipson, Stephen Celluci, and Andrew Shantz 9am Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik, Indradeep Ghosh, Samir Chatterjee 10am Shiv Subramaniam 11am Rajeswari Satish, Radhika Mani, and Bala Skandan 12noon Eric Fraser and Naren Budhakar 1pm Vivek Pandya and Kalpit Pandya 2pm Suphala Patankar 3pm Roger Lipson, Michael Braudy, Roshni Thompson and Ravi Rao 4pm Samarth Nagarkar and Dibyarka Chatterjee 5pm Shankar Tucker 6pm Camila Celin and Ehren Hanson 7pm Nishanth Chandran and Rajna Swaminathan 8pm Anupam Shobhakar and Meghashyam Keshav 9pm Krishna Bhatt and Anindo Chaterjee 10pm Abhik Mukherjee, Jay Ghandi, and Sameer Gupta 11pm Lee Torchia and Polash Gomes This year’s festival is produced in collaboration with Anindo Chatterjee School of Tabla, Brooklyn Raga Massive, Carnatic Sundays, Chandayan, Krishna Bhatt Gurukul, HarmoNYom, Navatman, and NYC Radio Live The festival will be recorded and featured on both the WKCR online archives on www.wkcr.org and on podcast site www.nycradiolive.org. For more updates, please join visit Ragas Live Festival 2013 facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/178232005671147/?fref=ts