Her environment certainly hastened her passion. For many, Ravi Shankar, who died in 2012, was a spiritual leader as much as a musician. Anouska Shankar describes the musicians who would stay at the ...

Growing up as the daughter and prized student of Ravi Shankar, the world’s most famous Indian classical musician, provides unique challenges and opportunities.

Anoushka Shankar is used to giving life her all. Since making her gutsy live debut as a sitarist three decades ago, aged 13, performing to a New Delhi concert hall packed with 2000 devotees of her ...

Walking into Grammy-nominated sitarist Anoushka Shankar’s performance on Sunday, I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect – a ...

A recent trilogy of albums brings Shankar and her band to Tallahassee to make her debut at Opening Nights in Ruby Diamond ...

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center was filled with faculty, students and local listeners on Thursday night, ...

May, is the largest and most established annual curated multi-arts festival in England. Taking place over three weeks in May, ...

To the casual observer, Anoushka Shankar is the poster child of the sitar, the classical Indian instrument made famous by her late father, Ravi Shankar. Yet what makes her music so distinct is the ...

Chapter III, however, is resolutely not buried in the traditional Indian sounds which were first brought to the attention of Western audiences by Anoushka’s father ... Throughout this purely ...

I n the 30 years that have passed since she made her high-profile concert debut at the age of 13, Anoushka Shankar has released 10 solo albums, earned 11 Grammy Award nominations and performed ...

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 ...