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 ...

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 ...

When sitarist Anoushka Shankar talks about the pain of the artistic process, she’s not speaking figuratively, or existentially. She is being quite literal. “Ever since I was a kid, I've had this one ...

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 ...

April 7 marks the centenary of the Indian Sitar Master Ravi Shankar (1920– 2012), whose interactions with Western musicians, such as the Beatle George Harrison, have been celebrated, although the full ...

Wood and metal have pretty much been the materials of choice for craftsmen making acoustic instruments for many years, but the rise of 3D printing in recent times has brought us guitars, violins, ...

Timucua Arts Foundation is bringing the International Guitar Festival back to Orlando starting this week. The organization is presenting four weekends of guitar performances from artists around the ...