I used to tell my listeners that Qawwali music was not music made by cute little furry Australian arboreal creatures, but rather, sufi gospel music from Pakistan. The term, Qawwali, means ‘utterance’ ...

The singers in Pakistani ensemble the Saami Brothers like to take their time onstage—each vocal step moves the performance upward gradually toward a collective sense of ecstasy. That deliberate pacing ...

Join us for a night of music with one of South Asia’s the most esteemed qawwali ensembles, Qawal Najmuddin Saifuddin & Brothers, who are leading exponents of more than 700 years of this mystical Sufi ...

Indeed, Hyderabad has a rich cultural scene and the city continues to embrace unique ways of celebrating it. One such event ...

On what would have been the 77th birth anniversary of the legendary Qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his ancestral Haveli in Faisalabad stands as a haunting reminder of official neglect. Once ...