Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan will perform sitar music in a concert set Sept. 7 at Loyola University. The performance, set for 8 p.m. at the Nunemaker Auditorium in Monroe Hall on the Loyola campus, is ...

Contemporary sitar artist Anoushka Shankar, one of Indian classical music’s most important modern figures, has witnessed just about every kind of live audience across her two decades touring the world ...

Sitar player Aloke Dasgupta will perform with Impending Bloom Floating Ensemble at the Crow Collection of Asian Art on Saturday. Aloke Dasgupta is often regarded as one of the most original sitar ...

The sitar, commissioned in 1960, on dispaly at the Met museum Patel said she insisted that the sitar should be red polished so that it stands out from the other male performers. She along with her ...

When Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso, passed away last December there was an international outpouring of tributes and writings on his life and contributions to world music. The Indian maestro, who was ...

Pune: The handmade sitar created in Miraj in Sangli district of Maharashtra is now travelling to the US, Germany and the UK for musicians based there. The instrument was made popular by Pandit Ravi ...