CUDDALORE: A noted thavil player’s comment, reducing parai to a mere music instrument played during funerals, has kicked off a row, reigniting the decades-long debate on according parai isai its ...

CHENNAI: Around 75 men, women and transgenders, lost in the concordant beats emanating from a percussion instrument hanging on their shoulders walk in a circle closely following the movements of their ...

Coimbatore: Hundreds of music enthusiasts from across Tamil Nadu and Tamil folk artists from Seattle and Portland watched in awe as a group of folk artists in traditional attire played parai at ...

Sound Mani, who performed at the Dubai 2022 Expo, is fascinated by all kinds of ancient Tamil acoustics, and in particular, parai. The expo, which had around 243 pavilions, provided Mani with the ...

Padma Shri awardees Kannappa Sambandan, renowned Therukoothu performer and Velu Aasan, Parai Isai artiste were felicitated by Koothu-P-Pattarai Trust, Bharata Ilango Foundation for Asian Culture ...