Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Following a sold-out WMI performance at the historic Cathedral of St. John the ...

The Houston group discusses bringing ancient Muslim traditions into the contemporary world — and even collaborating on music for a Disney show. Music has long been part of religious practices around ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Wednesday evening marks the beginning of Eid al-Fitr in the United States, the celebration to mark the end of Ramadan. Millions celebrate Ramadan in Houston and around the ...

HOUSTON – A local ensemble making South Asian devotional music recently got the chance to collaborate on the soundtrack of a very special episode of Disney Junior’s ‘Mira, Royal Detective’ They’re ...

Recently, Delhi-based NGO, Wishes and Blessings, has come out in support of the qawwali troupe, Niazi Brothers, by hosting a fundraising musical concert titled Jashn-E-Qawwali, a celebration of the ...

Electric, spirited and earnest are some of the adjectives we readily associate with a qawwali performance. Can these emotions be captured through static images? Well, an ongoing photo exhibition at ...

Many might have been mesmerised by Javed Ali's rendition of Arziyan in the Bollywood film Delhi-6. However, this song cannot encapsulate the grandeur of the 13th Century Sufi tradition of Qawwali, a ...

When people think of qawwali, they think of devotional music. But, the Mumbai film industry has given the qawwali a new identity, expanding its scope from Sufism to a song of entertainment in a ...