Kolkata is home-sweet-home to a slide guitar genius whose musical home-base is older than the blues: Hindustani {north Indian} classical music. Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey is very ...

It’s hard to place the occupation of Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya in just one word. He has expanded the scope of Indian classical music through his hybrid approach to several related musical cultures ...

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 ...

Both traditionalist and innovator, Debashish Bhattacharya is a virtuoso of the Indian slide guitar. He performs deeply meditative ragas as well as lighting-fast, intricate slide work on the family of ...

LAFAYETTE — When Indian slide guitarist Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya launches into one of his signature ragas at Lafayette’s Mighty Fine Guitars on Friday evening, he’ll be making music to support a ...

Debashish Bhattacharya is a world-renowned Indian slide guitar virtuoso and designer. He’s a Grammy-nominated artist who has also won a BBC Planet Award for World Music. Bhattacharya prides himself in ...

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2009 - Indian slide guitar player Vishwa Mohan Bhatt was joined by tabla player Samir Chatterjee for a performance here at George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium that ...

When Debashish Bhattacharya talks about his beloved guitars, his voice radiates the same sense of rippling joy and beatific pleasure that permeates his ragas. “Our instruments are like our parents, we ...

When most museums present an exhibition, you can count on seeingstatic displays of objects, memorabilia and maybe some archivalvideo footage. But not at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad,where a ...