Given the vibrant art and literature scene in Nepal, we tend to forget that there is a whole Nepali-speaking world out there. At least 5 million Nepalis live beyond the country’s borders, performing ...

WIND INSTRUMENTS: Deepak Darji (left) practices his shehnai in Qatar so that he does not get rusty, and so he can perform at events for a living when he returns to Nepal. Kumar BK (right) demonstrates ...

Gajendra Maharjan, left, Shreesha Maharjan, middle, and Surendra Maharjan, right, perform music from the Newari region of Nepal on traditional drums at the Nepali Jatra festival at the Longmont Museum ...

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 ...

Heartfelt reflections, with tender tunes and impactful lyrics — that’s the kind of music Nepali singer-songwriter and ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (Kathmandu Post/ANN) -- When women across Nepal's far-western region gather in late summer to sing deuda songs and prepare grain offerings, they are keeping alive one of the region's ...

Nepali-language love songs and film tunes wafted through halls of the Crowne Plaza Columbus North-Worthington as scores of musicians waited for their turn to audition for a musical reality show.

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

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The Embassy of India in Kathmandu marked 150 years of India's national song, Vande Mataram, by organising a mass singing ...