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In the mid-1960s, George met sitar legend Ravi Shankar and immediately began receiving lessons from him. Indian music took hold of George so much that he left his guitar behind. However, George ...

'I come from a family of inventors,' says the St. Louis-based artist. 'In my household growing up, there was always this freedom to go your own way, so I thought, Why not build an instrument? Why not ...

Back story: Life is all sitars and guitars for local musician Pete Fine. When the New York City-born musician isn't working at Rainbow Guitars, he is jamming at various North Fourth Avenue venues with ...

It was one of a kind of concert. Definitely for the majority of us it was the first time that we’d seen a sitar being played like a guitar while the guitarist and the sitarist head banged on the stage ...

Chicagoan Fareed Haque has played classical and jazz guitar with members of the Vermeer Quartet and prominent artists such as Sting, Kurt Elling and Ramsey Lewis. His bicultural Pakistani and Chilean ...

Jugalbandi is a classical North Indian musical duet (meaning literally "tied together"). The guitar is not often used in the music of India. However, Matthew Montfort has studied sitar and is a ...

The New England Conservatory of Music Intercultural Institute, is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week with a symposium on bimusicality. Bimusicality is when artists can perform in two distinct ...

Timucua Arts Foundation is bringing the International Guitar Festival back to Orlando starting this week. The organization is presenting four weekends of guitar performances from artists around the ...