The sounds of the sitar and tabla will echo in List Art Center this Saturday, when Brown students will join in an exploration of Indian music and culture. Raagmaala, an organization promoting the ...

The Beatles reformed their style and sound in the late 1960s after a trip to India. Their music introduced the sitar to the West. Read more here.

A group of music students, some of them holding guitars and other instruments, sat in a semi-circle, listening intently for ninety minutes as the man with the sitar spoke and played for them. His name ...

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At Dawn Ragas, Singh brings to Nelson what few outside India have experienced, the serenity of a sunrise raga performance.

The sitar’s metal strings result in tough calluses but yield a delicate sound. The instrument – reminiscent of its Western guitar counterpart – is a plucked instrument with strings and 20 frets, used ...

NEW DELHI — With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso mentored a Beatle, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded ...

Patiala: A recent research study at Punjabi University has highlighted the contributions of lesser-known artists associated ...

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 ...

Ustad Vilayat Khan, one of India’s leading sitar players, died Saturday at Bombay’s Jaslok Hospital. He was 76. Khan had lung cancer, diabetes and hypertension, the Press Trust of India reported. He ...