We got Eminem’s rap on a Sitar before GTA VI! Wait, what? A video is doing the rounds on social media, which is a perfect ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Sitarist David Pontbriand will perform from 12:30-1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5 ...
As The Beatles were recording the groundbreaking Revolver album, an odd thing occurred in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll history. On “Taxman,” a track written and sung by George Harrison, Paul McCartney ...
Starting around 1965, The Beatles began to be more experimental with their music, often becoming more psychedelic and surreal. George Harrison developed an interest in Indian music, especially the ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. American sitarist David Pontbriand will perform at the Oasis of Music from ...
Several '60s songs pushed the genre in a new direction. Find three songs from 1965 that helped shape psychedelic rock.
More than a decade has passed since sitar maestro and bharat ratna pandit Ravi Shankar introduced 10-year-old Rishab Rikhiram Sharma on stage when he first performed as his disciple. As fate would ...
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.
April 7 marks the centenary of the Indian Sitar Master Ravi Shankar (1920– 2012), whose interactions with Western musicians, such as the Beatle George Harrison, have been celebrated, although the full ...
Shortly before Christmas, Dan Schneider got a call from someone claiming to be Paul Brownell from the UK label Poptones. “Out of the blue there’s a guy on the phone with a thick British accent saying, ...
Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan’s Washington ...