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 ...

Ustad Shafaat Khan, a world-renowned Indian master of the sitar, surbahar and tabla, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in the Carter Center for Worship and Music at Bridgewater College. 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 ...

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.

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 ...

The performances were delivered by sitar player Jyoti Thakar and tabla player Arvind Paranjape.

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 ...

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 ...

Professional guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Chris “Seep” Seepersaud is a firm believer in teaching inclusively in music education. As a public school teacher, he established a multi-cultural ...

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 ...