In elaborate Indian weddings, among the various preparations that go on ‘behind the scenes’ to make it a memorable event, a shehnai artist or shehnai wala makes for an important part of the tradition.

CHAKWAL, Dec 31: A local Shehnai artist is gaining international and local acclaim as his videos are now available on YouTube and members of his troupe have performed in Coke studio.

Bismillah Khan, 90, a master of the Indian wind instrument called the shehnai, died Monday of a heart attack in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India.

Between 1965 and 1967 Khan breathed life into the word shehnai. In 1965 he and the sitarist Vilayat Khan appeared at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1967 their remarkable album Duets was the inaugural ...

Bharat Ratna awardee and renowned shehnai maestro, Ustad Bismillah Khan, who played shehnai from the rampart of Redfort on August 15, 1947, expressed his desire to play it now at India Gate. Ustad ...

The strains of his shehnai have long faded away from the Naubat Khana but the Ustad, who took the instrument to the world stage and became synonymous with it, lives on somewhere in its recesses.

Liaquat Ali, 44, a passionate lover of shehnai, is not only trying his best to keep the art alive, but is also turning out to be an emblem of hope for shehnai masters in Punjab.

As city-based Tansen Academy of Music gears up for Ras Barse Utsav, which will mark the 99th birth anniversary of shehnai legend Ustad Bismillah Khan, CE tracks the journey of the instrument ...

The sound of the shehnai in a girl’s wedding sounds painful. To the father and the mother, it seems to remind them that the time has come to let go of their most precious jewel.

NEW DELHI: Shehnai playing in the background and women dressed in rich lehengas and traditional Indian saris reminds you of a north Indian wedding.

Neither embraced at concerts nor at weddings, the shehnai is fighting for survival On the classical circuit, the instrument is seen as a ‘shaadi byaah ka baaja’, and on the wedding circuit ...

CHAKWAL, Dec 31: A local Shehnai artist is gaining international and local acclaim as his videos are now available on YouTube and members of his troupe have performed in Coke studio.