Ashwin Batish is an extraordinary sitarist and tabla player. He received training in the North Indian classical tradition from his father S.D. Batish and later created his own unique fusion of Indian ...

Drummer Keshav Batish is a third-generation musician. His father, Pandit Ashwin Batish, is a sitar player well-versed in both Indian classical music and Western rock, while his grandfather, S. B.

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 ...

The opportunity to listen to Prof. Pradeep Ratnayake and his friends in concert, at Pradeepanjalee XVIII staged at the Lionel Wendt Theatre on May 21 was truly a delightful experience for me. There ...

The veteran musician spoke to Bangalore Times about his journey as a musician during his recent visit to the city Pandit Nayan Ghosh is one of the rare virtuosos in Indian classical music, with equal ...

Bollywood movies of the 1940s - 1950s often signalled weddings with the sound of a Shehnai. This started to change in the decades that followed - replaced first by peppy Bollywood numbers where the ...

Ravi Shankar by Markgoff2972/CC BY-SA 4.0 Alla Rakha by Alephalpha / CC BY-SA 3.0 Lecture demonstrations, workshops and master classes or group lessons for students at a basic level, are very much ...

Zakir Hussain’s name was twice the size of Niladri Kumar’s on the cover of the program for the duo’s Washington Performing Arts concert Thursday at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. Yet Hussain, the ...

In an era where the sacred traditions of Indian classical music are tenderly guarded by dedicated custodians, the Naushad Academy of Hindustani Sangeet stands as a beacon of cultural preservation. On ...

Set to compose music for a ballet based on Nobel laureate Herman Hesse’s “Siddhartha”, Pandit Gaurav Mazumdar, says the world has embraced the Indian classical instrument sitar as their own. Dr Vinod ...

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 ...

“The melodic character of Indian music and the harmonic character of Western music are like oil and water. They will not mix…Nor should there be any fear that one will harm the other.” — Sitar maestro ...