Don’t judge Gabby La La by her small stature. Or her cuteness, for that matter. Because if you do, you might overlook the fact that she’s a sitar virtuoso, a master of the theremin and a mean ...

Johnathan Cilia interviews Glenn Sacco, one of Malta’s few sitar players. Similar to cuisine, the stringed instruments of the world are usually enhanced with the distinctive local flavour of the ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The COVID pandemic and lockdown walloped sitar player Anoushka Shankar hard. The isolation. The unknown. The fear of the future.

Sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee speaks about reimagining ragas, collaborating across genres, mentoring Farhan Akhtar, and ...

“Beauty” seemed somehow insufficient a description for the sounds that came from Ravi Shankar’s sitar in a concert hall. It was as if nature itself were being replicated on the stage, whether it was ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

LOS ANGELES — A few months ago, for what felt like the thousandth time, I tweaked my bedroom/music studio/office into just office for a Zoom meeting. On my trestle desk, I angled my computer so no one ...

Almost every article written about sitarist Shahid Parvez describes him as one of India’s finest young musicians, so it’s a bit of a shock to read the fine print and discover that he turns 59 next ...

The COVID pandemic and lockdown walloped sitar player Anoushka Shankar hard. The isolation. The unknown. The fear of the future. “I needed a place to put some vulnerable feelings, not to get too ...