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.

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 ...

Baby boomers may remember classical sitar player Ravi Shankar from his legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, or his influence on popular music culture at the time.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. American sitarist David Pontbriand will perform at the Oasis of Music from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps the key figure in global pop music’s embrace of fluid, immersive sound and oceanic drift over the past several decades, virtuoso sitar player Ravi Shankar has died at age 92, according to the ...

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 ...

Beach balls and whistles were enough to keep Flipper occupied, but today's A-list dolphins at Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas have their own yoga ...

Amid the din of modern concerts, this event gave Hyderabadis a glimpse of that gentler age, when music was shared, not staged. Sitar maestro Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan performed in an intimate setting, ...