The Karan Mahajan Band is a project led by guitarist and composer Karan Mahajan. Since it’s birth in 2019, the band has played numerous shows in the local and national circuits. With an ever-growing repertoire of original compositions and covers, the Karan Mahajan Band tran- scends the boundaries of conventional genres and traditional labels. The group’s influences include artists such as Son House, BB King, Derek Trucks, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ali Akbar Khan, among others.

In this day and age of widespread commercialism and over-processed music, the band focuses instead on live performance, songwriting and extended improvisation.


Karan Mahajan is a musician, composer and guitar player based in New Delhi, India. He completed his studies at the Global Music Institute in 2016. In 2020, he was awarded merit scholarships by The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music (New York City, NY), The New England Conservatory (Boston, MA) and The University of North Texas (Denton, TX). He has worked with several local and international artists including Takar Nabam (Same Sky), Isaac Smith (Sneak Attack), and Raphaelle Brochet and Philippe Aerts (the Piano Man). In 2016, he performed at the annual Music Matters Festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as part of the Tarun Balani Collective. Currently, Karan is leading his eponymous band and freelancing as a session musician. You can find Karan’s work on facebook.com/karanmahajanmusic