People of Rhythm

People of Rhythm Presenting organization, record label, artist booking agency, music production, events and marketing company serving up various music on all levels and styles.

A Performing Arts Presenting Organization, Record Label and Creative Music Production company serving various music needs on all levels from event production and execution to providing live, original or licensed music for clients. Presenting and providing free arts programs and arts education to the public when possible. Partners and clients include major brands, recording artists, musicians, fest

ivals, venues, record labels, film and commercial advertising agencies, sound designers, visual artists, DJs and more. Specializing in live music event programs and series.

03/29/2026

THANK YOU BIG EARS! Well wishes from L. Shankar, Selvaganesh and Swaminathan Vinayakram for Ragamala at Big Ears. 🙏🕉️🔊

World Music Wednesdays at Old Town School of Folk Music. This week features Indian classical music by two masters of the...
03/24/2026

World Music Wednesdays at Old Town School of Folk Music. This week features Indian classical music by two masters of their instruments, Kunal Gunjal on the 100 string santoor and Amit Kavthekar on tabla. Celebrating and supporting their brilliant new album, ‘When Time Stood Still’ as a tribute to their late Gurus Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain. You do not want to miss this FREE event. 7:30pm start. Presented by Old Town School of Folk in partnership with People of Rhythm Productions with support by South Asian Classical Music Society, Gandharva North America, Mandala Arts, Ragamala Festival, Lumpen Radio’s Ragas & Tala Radio show. Big thanks to all for helping make it happen. It’s going to be an incredible concert. We look forward to seeing you there.









Lots of events coming up staring next Wednesday at Old Town School of Folk Music then Ragamala at Big Ears followed by s...
03/20/2026

Lots of events coming up staring next Wednesday at Old Town School of Folk Music then Ragamala at Big Ears followed by some other great concerts at Constellation and more at Old Town School. We hope to see you at all of them soon!

🔊 Kunal Gunjal & Amit Kavthekar
📆 Wed. March 25
📍 Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2026/03-25-2026-wmw-kunal-gunjal-and-amit-kavthekar/

🔊 Ragamala: A Celebration of South Asian Classical Music at Big Ears Festival
📆 Sat. March 28 ; 10am-8pm
📍 Big Ears Festival, St John’s Cathedral, Knoxville, TN
https://bigearsfestival.org/ragamala/

🔊 VVS Murari, Ashwani Shankar, Sai Giridhar
📆 Wed. April 15
📍 Constellation Chicago, IL
With Mandala Makers Festival
https://wl.eventim.us/event/mandala-makers-festival-presents/684422?afflky=ConstellationChicago

🔊Mehrnam Rastegari
📆 Wed. May 13
📍 Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2026/05-13-2026-wmw-mehrnam-restegari/

🔊Sabir Khan w/ Hindole Majumdar
📆 Wed. June 3
📍 Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
With Mandala Makers Festival
https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2026/06-03-2026-wmw-sabir-khan/

🔊 Mehrnam Rastegari
📆 Sat. June 6
📍 Rhoneymeade Fest
With Manny's & Secret Planet State College
https://www.rhoneymeadefest.com/2026-artists/mehrnam-rastegari

🔊 Mehrnam Rastegari
📆 Fri. June 12
📍 Hill Center D C
With Secret Planet Productions
https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/global-sounds-on-the-hill-featuring-award-winning-persian-musician-mehrnam-rastegari/

We are very excited to support and spread the word about The Ravi Shankar Ensemble who are performing at the Chicago Sym...
03/20/2026

We are very excited to support and spread the word about The Ravi Shankar Ensemble who are performing at the Chicago Symphony Center this Sunday, March 22 for a 3pm afternoon concert. Do not miss this special lineup of incredible, top notch musicians who all have close ties to the late sitarist and were specially selected by Sukanya Shankar and Anoushka Shankar. The ensemble will be performing rare compositions composed by Ravi Shankar. We cannot wait to welcome them all for their Chicago debut and on a stage that Ravi performed on his entire career. It’s going to be a very special program honoring the maestro. You do not want to miss out! 🕉️🙏

Use discount code RAVI20 for 20% off your tickets too.

Supported by People of Rhythm Productions, South Asian Classical Music Society of Chicago, Mandala Arts, Gandharva Mahavidyalaya North America, Ragamala Festival, Lumpen Radio 🔊🔊

📆 Sunday, March 22, 2026
⏰ 3:00 PM
📍 Chicago Symphony
220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604
🔗 www.cso.org














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Ragamala Comes to Big Ears: A Garland of Ragas Unfolds in Knoxville. There is a reason ragas have their own clocks. In t...
03/12/2026

Ragamala Comes to Big Ears: A Garland of Ragas Unfolds in Knoxville.

There is a reason ragas have their own clocks. In the Indian classical tradition, a morning raga is not simply music played in the morning — it is music of the morning. Its specific notes, its particular ornamentations, its emotional character (what musicians call rasa) are inseparable from the quality of early light, the stillness before the day’s noise begins, the particular quality of attention that belongs to dawn. Play that same raga at midnight and something essential is missing — not because of convention, but because the music and the moment are genuinely, organically linked.

This is the idea at the heart of Ragamala — and on Saturday, March 28, 2026, when the 14 year old festival of its own comes to Knoxville, Tennessee for the first time, as part of the highly respected Big Ears Festival.

What Is Ragamala?
The word ragamala translates literally as “garland of ragas” — a sequence of ragas woven together the way flowers are strung into a continuous whole. As a concert format, it means exactly what it sounds like: an extended, immersive presentation in which multiple ragas are performed across the arc of a day, each one heard at or near its traditional time.

This year’s Ragamala at Big Ears runs 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at St. John’s Cathedral — ten hours of South Asian classical music presented in sequence, from morning ragas through the afternoon and into the evening. It is all included as part of the amazing programming within the broader Big Ears Festival series of events.

For audiences accustomed to the standard concert format — arrive, listen for 40 minutes, leave — Ragamala asks something different. It invites you to settle in. To let the music move through time rather than against it. To notice how your own listening changes as the day progresses and the ragas shift in character around you.

This is not a small invitation. It is a profound one.

We look forward to informing you more about the exceptionally gifted artists performing throughout this year’s program in the coming weeks in advance of the festival.

Ragamala: A Celebration of South Asian Classical Music
Big Ears Festival People of Rhythm

Mehrnam Rastegari : Dislocated Pulse ‘Top Of The World Pick’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - SonglinesBravo Mehrnam and her stellar band on a...
01/31/2026

Mehrnam Rastegari : Dislocated Pulse
‘Top Of The World Pick’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Songlines

Bravo Mehrnam and her stellar band on a great record!
Big love to Tom Pryor for the PR and support!
Huge thanks to Songlines Magazine for the top pick!
People of Rhythm is very excited to be booking shows for Mehrnam and her band! Don’t miss out on this gifted rising star for your stages and festivals! 🚀🔊

While we are all incredibly grateful and thrilled with this news, we are incredibly chilled by what is happening in Iran right now and thinking and feeling them with all of our hearts at this time too. 🙏

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Another awesome concert announcement. Kunal Gunjal on santoor and Amit Kavthekar on tabla play March 25 in Chicago at Ol...
01/17/2026

Another awesome concert announcement. Kunal Gunjal on santoor and Amit Kavthekar on tabla play March 25 in Chicago at Old Town School of Folk Music as part of their FREE World Music Wednesday Series (donations suggested). A beautiful Indian classical music concert is in store. Don’t miss out. Supported by People of Rhythm, South Asian Classical Music Society (Chicago) and Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, North America.

We have some very exciting and BIG news to share about Big Ears Festival coming up. A full day of Ragamala: A Celebratio...
01/13/2026

We have some very exciting and BIG news to share about Big Ears Festival coming up. A full day of Ragamala: A Celebration of South Asian Classical Music programming has been added to the already amazing festival lineup this coming March in Knoxville, TN. We are incredibly proud and honored to help present the following artists on Saturday, March 28th (in order) performing both blissful Hindustani classical music from the northern region and soulful Carnatic music from the south of India…
Kunal Gunjal on santoor
Praveen Narayan on tabla
Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena
Swaminathan Selvaganesh on kanjira
Selvaganesh Vinayakram on kanjira
Purbayan Chatterjee on sitar
Nitin Mitta on tabla
L. Shankar on double violin and vocals
We really hope to see there for this incredible live experience. More info and ticket link are in bio.

Talent buyers, programmers and festival friends heading to NYC for Arts Presenters (APAP) conference. Be sure to check o...
01/05/2026

Talent buyers, programmers and festival friends heading to NYC for Arts Presenters (APAP) conference. Be sure to check out these few showcases of amazing artists represented by People of Rhythm.

A few chances to see the Arun Ramamurthy Trio (Fri night at NYC Winter Jazzfest at DROM at 6PM & Sat. night at Riot Artists stage at the Hilton at 7PM). These guys are on fire right now!

Then an early Sunday special daytime showcase program packed with 9 incredible artists on stage presented by People of Rhythm & Ragamala: A Celebration of Indian Classical Music. 10 AM till 2PM starting with a morning raga set by Kunal Gunjal on santoor, along with duet set with Max ZT on dulcimer, also Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena and Gabriel Akhmad Marin on tanbour, fretless guitar and their accompanying musicians. We hope to see you there.
People of Rhythm APAP Daytime Showcase

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