Miner grew up playing the classical violin, but says that as a teenager she was drawn to the transcendent music of the sitar, a long-necked lute with a hollowed-out gourd body. The instrument’s ...

Ahh, the sitar. You are the most popular and easily recognised of Mother India’s many hundreds of musical children. With you have great souls reached for the heavens all the easier to touch the ...

David Pontbriand, a Portland resident and performer on the stringed instrument called the sitar, offers a concert drawn from the classical ragas of northern India in a Bates College concert at 7:30 ...

The New England Conservatory of Music Intercultural Institute, is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week with a symposium on bimusicality. Bimusicality is when artists can perform in two distinct ...

At the top of the world, Everest Base Camp sits at a staggering 17,598 feet (5,364 metres) above sea level. Approximately 40,000 people trek to the base camp on the world’s tallest mountain every year ...

Already a highly respected musician in his own country, Ravi Shankar first burst into European and American popular consciousness in the late 1960s when the Beatles’ lead guitarist, George Harrison, ...

The series on taals with the same number of matras or time units started last week with an episode highlighting the 14-matra dhamaar taal. Quite in the manner that this taal is employed to accompany ...

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.