Colin John will play “The Sitar Remains the Same” show at Mulligan’s on the Blue on July 6 at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 for dinner. Admission is $20. Courtesy photo If you have ever wondered what ...
Starting around 1965, The Beatles began to be more experimental with their music, often becoming more psychedelic and surreal. George Harrison developed an interest in Indian music, especially the ...
British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who is currently in India for his Mathematics tour, recently shared a special moment ...
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 ...
George Harrison used a sitar on a song from The Beatles’ Rubber Soul. He said the sitar wasn’t good. A famous sitar played had mixed feelings on the song in question. “So you know, they just thought, ...
When George Harrison’s "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Les Paul was kidnapped in 1973, he called on his former sitar mentor Ravi Shankar to issue an appeal for its safe return, such was their ...
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 ...
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 ...
Farhan Akhtar has been roped in to play India’s most revered Sitarist Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar in Sam Mendes’ The Beatles – A Four Film Cinematic Event. The honour came to Farhan as a very ...
When the sitar entered Beatles music, it was immediately treated in the West as a symbol. But to Ravi Shankar, it was never symbolic. It was a demanding classical instrument rooted in lineage, years ...
In a groundbreaking fusion of tradition and innovation, neo-classical musician, Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, is set to unveil ...