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 ...

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.

“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 ...

The sitar, however, does not do this. As the sitar string vibrates, it grazes the surface at a slightly different point each time, briefly pushing a different harmonic, one of the hidden tones inside ...

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 ...

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 ...

NPR posted the other day about an app that promised to simulate a sitar, the stringed instrument used mainly in Indian music. So just for you, dear readers, we downloaded it [iTunes link] and gave it ...