Experience a peaceful journey with this immersive meditation video, featuring soothing instrumental music inspired by Indian classical traditions. Let the gentle sitar melodies, subtle percussion, and ...

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 Beatles weren't afraid to push the boundaries of pop music. A 1965 helped introduce their audience to Indian music via ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...

April 7 marks the centenary of the Indian Sitar Master Ravi Shankar (1920– 2012), whose interactions with Western musicians, such as the Beatle George Harrison, have been celebrated, although the full ...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 21 (ANI): Sitar virtuoso Rishab Rikhiram Sharma has announced a 10-city India tour as part of the Asia leg of his internationally acclaimed Sitar For Mental ...

From George Harrison to John Coltrane, from Yehudi Menuhin to David Crosby, his connections reflected music's universality, though a gap persisted between Shankar and many Western fans. Sometimes they ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over ...