As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...

Wong, who is a guitar enthusiast and has often shared videos of him playing the guitar had on Diwali posted a video of himself learning to play the Sitar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday ...

Ed Sheeran, during his India tour, shared a video of himself playing the sitar for the first time, delighting fans by performing a sitar rendition of 'Shape of You.' Guided by Indian sitar player ...

In the mid-1960s, George met sitar legend Ravi Shankar and immediately began receiving lessons from him. Indian music took hold of George so much that he left his guitar behind. However, George ...

Students from a variety of majors join in the Schoenberg Music Building on weekday evenings to learn the art of sitar playing from their instructor, UCLA lecturer and sitarist Rahul Neuman.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent his 'best wishes' to Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong after he was seen trying to learn the Indian musical instrument- sitar. In addition to conveying ...

What is it like to experience what can only be described as musical magic? For Anoushka Shankar, one of those moments occurred in Portugal in 2014 at the Boom Festival. “There I was, playing at this ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Contemporary sitar artist Anoushka Shankar, one of Indian classical music’s most important modern figures, has witnessed just about every kind of live audience across her two decades touring the world ...

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...