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The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over ...
Sharma’s original songs have gone as viral as his sitar covers of pop hits such as ‘Tumhi Dekho Naa’ from Kabhi Alvida Naa ...
Shalu Garg is a member of the growing number of Indian classical musicians who call Aotearoa home. Garg brought herself and ...
On May 15, Rishab Rikhiram Sharma performed at the holy Rudra Yagya in Goa, which took place after a whopping 300 years.
As the daughter of the legendary sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar, Anoushka is often confronted with the expectation that she'd only make traditional Indian classical music. But since the ...
David SommersteinConstantinople, music from the global crossroads, this weekend in Saranac Kiya Tabassian leads the group and plays the Persian setar, the predecessor of the Indian sitar.
“Indian music was the original ‘world music ... for the music world,” said Kartic Seshadri, a Shankar protege, sitar virtuoso and music professor at the University of California, ...