IndianRaga's Popular Hits Presented Live

Performers: Mahesh Raghvan, Kartik Raman, Sunil Sunkara, Arjun Ravi Shankar, Anirudh Sharma and Sucheta Sanyal are IndianRaga Fellows from the first-ever India edition of the Fellowship. They presented some of their most popular hits on the TEDx Chennai stage: 1. Tabla Trap Padhant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgX0xapOt7A 2. Raravenu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAFRwl4Q7ec 3. Jao Jao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnLZf5_p5-8 "...Each year, the IndianRaga Fellowship brings together young musicians in North America devoted to carrying on the tradition of Indian classical music. Over the course of a year, these high schooland college-age kids get to collaborate...All of the IndianRaga recordings are released as music videos. The group has made a point of combining Indian music with Western classical music and jazz. Indian music's influence on jazz is pervasive and longstanding. John Coltrane and John McLaughlin are just two of the jazz greats who have been influenced by Indian music." - NPR "Classical Music Can Go Viral: In February, five prodigiously talented youngsters did a Carnatic-style cover of Sia’s popular song, Cheap Thrills. The YouTube video went viral, even attracting the attention of my five- and-eight-year-old nieces, who played it several times on repeat. When I watched it with them, I discovered that something called the IndianRaga Fellowship was behind the video and the end credits mentioned that anyone could apply for the programme." - LiveMint "Boston-based start-up IndianRaga is giving traditional art forms a modern makeover: When IndianRaga’s videos burst onto social media, the classical community lapped them up for their form and feel. For audiences outside that framework, the concept represented the possibility of foraying into classical forms in a manner that made them exciting and accessible." - Elle Magazine