Nepal’s music scene is a vibrant fusion of tradition and innovation, with artists blending folk instruments and modern genres to create globally appealing sounds. Digital platforms and social media ...

Global Voices has a special relationship with Nepalese culture. Many of our longtime contributors are from Nepal, allowing us to cover Nepali languages, art, literature, history, politics, and news.

When Dil Khadka was a boy in Bhutan, he made his first instrument — a bamboo flute — by hand. Inspired by the music he heard on the radio, he cut bamboo from the forest and burnt holes into it using a ...

One of the better known names in the Nepali music scene today, as the founder of Project Sarangi and part of Kutumba, is Kiran Nepali. He breathes new life into the traditional string instrument, ...

Kathmandu, May 2 -- Seema Luitel, 52, from Kathmandu, has been attending Paleti almost every month since 2008. Previously, ...

Jazzmandu Festival 2025 was nearly cancelled, but the organisers decided to go ahead with it anyway, believing in the power of jazz for healing and restoration. The Surya Nepal Jazzmandu is back in ...

Gajendra Maharjan, left, Shreesha Maharjan, middle, and Surendra Maharjan, right, perform music from the Newari region of Nepal on traditional drums at the Nepali Jatra festival at the Longmont Museum ...

I'm on a brick patio at Northfield, a popular café in Kathmandu, Nepal, strumming “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” on my guitar alongside Les Thompson, a founding member of the pioneering SoCal folk and ...

Thousands are expected to attend the second annual Dashain-Diwali Mela, a festival being put on by the Bhutanese Nepali community in Reynoldsburg on Saturday. The event is a combined celebration of ...

Say you woke up this morning and thought it was about time to finally experience the beauty and splendor of traditional Nepalese culture. To pull this off, a Coloradan would first have to make the ...