Ragas Live Festival 2025

Pioneer Works is excited to present the 14th annual Ragas Live Festival featuring 24 hours of transcendent music in the Pioneer Works Main Hall. The entire program will be broadcast live on video at Pioneer Works' Youtube & WKCR 89.9 FM in NYC (audio only).

About Ragas Live Festival

Ragas Live Festival was born as an in-studio radio broadcast at Columbia University’s WKCR in 2012 and immediately gained a global listening audience. Its annual presentation of 50–70 musicians — and its expansive curation of music inspired by the Indian classical tradition — became central to a movement that The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, and others have called “The Raga Renaissance.”

The event left the studio in 2016, becoming a live, in-person broadcast at Pioneer Works, where it has since cultivated a passionate following.

The event is inspired by raga, the classical music tradition from South Asia, where specific modes harmonize with the moods and energy of particular times of day, such as sunrise, sunset, or the darkest hours of the night. Master musicians from the raga tradition are presented alongside legends in ambient music, minimalism, jazz and global traditions.

Artist lineup to be announced September 3rd.

Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with the Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (Palo Alto), NYC Radio Live, People of Rhythm Productions, and Brooklyn Raga Massive. Ragas Live Festival is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council as well as the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Beverage sponsorship provided by Yerba Madre.

Host or Publisher Pioneer Works