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 ...

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

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 ...

Join Yogini Kaliji in welcoming the Batish Family. A legend of the Bay Area world music scene, Ashwin is a sitar and tabla master. Trained from an early age in the north Indian classical music ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite his close association with Sitar maestro Pt. Ravi Shankar, tabla artiste Arup Chattopadhyay chooses to be self-effacing. His style while playing the tabla is known for its sweet tonality, ...