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 ...

Niladri Kumar has revolutionized the sitar with his innovative Zitar, infusing it with an electric sound and pioneering ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI – Anoushka Shankar’s sitar troubles this week set off a mix of shock, sympathy, and concern among musicians after ...

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 ...

Steaming plates of curry, fragrant mugs of chai, wafting incense and exotic, shimmering music being piped through a sound system - an Indian restaurant is the only setting in which many Americans ever ...

Anoushka Shankar Slams Air India For Damaging Her Sitar . Renowned sitar player Anoushka Shankar expressed her disappointment ...

A group of music students, some of them holding guitars and other instruments, sat in a semi-circle, listening intently for ninety minutes as the man with the sitar spoke and played for them. His name ...

Anoushka Shankar has been left heartbroken after discovering her sitar badly damaged during a recent Air India flight. The renowned sitarist shared her sorrow with fans on Instagram, showing the ...

Anoushka Shankar took to Instagram to voice her anger at Air India after discovering her sitar had been damaged in transit.