Kathmandu, June 27 -- Radio Kantipur has honoured veteran singer, composer and guitarist Madan Singh Nepali through its ...

Global Voices has a special relationship with Nepalese culture. Many of our longtime contributors are from Nepal, allowing us to cover Nepali languages, art, literature, history, politics, and news.

Nepal, June 20 -- An invitation to attend Antarrashtriya Sangeet Mahotsav or International Music Festival 2026, and to ...

One of the better known names in the Nepali music scene today, as the founder of Project Sarangi and part of Kutumba, is Kiran Nepali. He breathes new life into the traditional string instrument, ...

Among the songs GenZ protesters were chanting at the Mandala on 8 September was Amrit Gurung’s folk-rock rendition of the Panchayat-era patriotic song, But amidst waving double pennants that day in ...

I'm on a brick patio at Northfield, a popular café in Kathmandu, Nepal, strumming “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” on my guitar alongside Les Thompson, a founding member of the pioneering SoCal folk and ...

When Dil Khadka was a boy in Bhutan, he made his first instrument — a bamboo flute — by hand. Inspired by the music he heard on the radio, he cut bamboo from the forest and burnt holes into it using a ...