Purbayan Chatterjee innovates Indian classical sitar music by blending traditional ragas with modern elements, collaborating with global artists, and utilizing cutting-edge technology. His approach ...

Since the release of her eponymous debut in 1998, Anoushka Shankar has been internationally renowned as an alchemist of Indian music. Blending classical sitar with modern flourishes, the multiple ...

The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison's house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California. Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, ...

A new, ambient sound has arrived and it stars Santa Barbara–raised songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Maxton Hunter and his journey learning the sitar. The tracks “Dhara” and “Jaya” were released ...

Purbayan Chatterjee is one of the world’s premier traditional sitar players, a star in his native India, with an album near the top of the charts and a worldwide following that beckons him to tour ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

As he prepares for his 50th anniversary concert tour, the world`s most famous sitarist can hardly believe so many years have gone by-and that he has become a certifiable legend along the way. ”From ...

Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan’s Washington ...

Today, on World Music Day, we turn the spotlight on a sitarist, instrument maker and someone touted to be a torchbearer of a legendary musical legacy – Rishab Rikhiram Sharma. The youngest and the ...