Ravi Shankar, the man who made traditional Indian sitar music popular worldwide, didn’t shoot to fame overnight. The musician—who was born on this day, April 7, in 1920—first began performing when he ...

George Harrison’s sitar is looking to come together with a new owner. The late Beatles musician’s distinctive Indian instrument will go up for grabs Thursday by Nate D. Sanders Auctions — with bidding ...

Ahmedabad: In a popular clip, a violinist — with the help of an orchestra — plays Vivaldi's notes of ‘Summer', with heat and ...

Born in Isan and shaped by stories passed mouth to mouth, the sound carries memory, humour and grit. The khaen sighs, voices ...

Shehnai maestro Pandit Shailesh Bhagwat and sitar exponent Ustad Rafeeque Khan presenting a jugalbandhi at Palakkad on Monday ...

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 ...

Jimmy Page and George Harrison were two of the most famous guitar players ever, but few music fans would confuse them. Page’s blistering solos, folk- and blues-based style, and layered riffs as Led ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When someone nonchalantly decorated the set for the Beatles' film Help! with a sitar, they were probably thinking it added a certain ...

When Ravi Shankar introduced Western musicians in the 1960s to Indian classical music, he couldn’t have imagined he’d change rock music history forever. Shankar inspired George Harrison, and soon, ...

Before Steve Howe joined Yes, he was a member of the little-heard U.K.-based psychedelic group Tomorrow, which released a pair of albums at the end of the '60s. (They're probably best known as the ...