OCT 18 | Anoushka Shankar
Oct 18, 2023
Herbst Theatre
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Original show description below.
The urge to build bridges flows through sitar star Anoushka Shankar’s veins. The daughter of legendary sitar master Ravi Shankar, she was raised straddling east and west, moving between London, Delhi and California. She performs music from her career as captured on her latest album, the GRAMMY-nominated 2022 live recording Between Us.
A dedicated acolyte of her father who has immersed herself in classical Hindustani music, the nine-time GRAMMY nominee has forged an independent identity by collaborating with a vast array of artists from jazz icon Herbie Hancock and violinist Joshua Bell to the DJ duo Thievery Corporation, rock band Jethro Tull and Asian Underground pioneer Karsh Kale.
Following 2013’s Traces of You, which featured guest vocals from her half-sister and pop superstar Norah Jones came a series of increasingly accomplished releases including 2015’s pure Indian project Home, 2016’s Land of Gold, and her latest studio session Love Letters, recorded in collaboration with guests Alev Lenz, Shilpa Rao, Ibeyi, and Ayanna Witter-Johnson.
Tracks from these albums are represented on Between Us, a remarkable live document of a 2018 performance in the Netherlands featuring longtime collaborator Manu Delago on percussion along with Holland’s Metropole Orkest.
Combining myriad global influences with the melodic sophistication of northern India, Shankar takes the latest bold step in a world music legacy.
The sitar star and nine-time GRAMMY nominee performs music from her career as captured on her latest album, the GRAMMY-nominated 2022 live recording Between Us.
…her exquisite sitar playing… lives up to the virtuosity that made her the youngest woman ever nominated for a World Music GRAMMY.
Harper’s Bazaar
…her exquisite sitar playing… lives up to the virtuosity that made her the youngest woman ever nominated for a World Music GRAMMY.
Harper’s Bazaar
Personnel
Anoushka Shankar sitar
Arun Ghosh clarinet
Tom Farmer bass
Sarathy Korwar drums
Pirashanna Thevarajah percussion
This is one of improvised music’s great players
DownBeat
Personnel
Anoushka Shankar sitar
Arun Ghosh clarinet
Tom Farmer bass
Sarathy Korwar drums
Pirashanna Thevarajah percussion
This is one of improvised music’s great players
DownBeat
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