Video: Indian Sitar Player Anoushka Shankar’s ‘Traveller’

By ⋅ June 4, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Anoushka Shankar, photo from her show 'Farewell To Bangalore' held at Palace Grounds, Bangalore, India on 7th of February, 2012. (Photo: facebook.com/AnoushkaShankar)

Anoushka Shankar, photo from her show 'Farewell To Bangalore' held at Palace Grounds, Bangalore, India on 7th of February, 2012. (Photo: facebook.com/AnoushkaShankar)

Anoushka Shankar has forged musical connections much like her father, Pandit Ravi Shankar.

They have both crossed musical borders while keeping a foot in traditional Indian classical music.

On Shankar’s latest album called “Traveller,” the sitarist tackles Spanish flamenco.

Reporter Arun Rath recently caught up with Shankar in New York City.


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  • Jon Allen

    Thank you for this fantastic segment, both audio and video.  Since stuff like this neither happens, nor works, entirely by accident, random shreds of attendant cultural history were inexorably brought to mind.  The southern Andalusian tradition has always been known to involve the survival of Moorish elements.  (Anecdotally, from American tourists who summered in Portugal in the 1970′s, Portuguese priests are alleged to have given newly baptized babies back to their parents with the saying, ‘you have given me your child a Moor; I give him /her back to you a Christian.’)  …Why shouldn’t the same have been true, relative to the only relatively more recent Romany presence in the same part of the world?
    If someone can enlighten me about this, you’re cordially invited….