His long black hair flows down over his shoulders and his dark beard brushes the instrument he is holding. He looks off into the distance, conjuring up images of ocean waves, as he strums the strings ...

Classical music concerts don’t have to be stuffy. Over at UCSD, the longtime Soirée for Music Lovers program keeps classical music fresh by highlighting pieces from the current century. Its upcoming ...

Pravaasa by the Temple of Fine Arts is a concept show by award-winning musician Kumar Karthigesu that will take listeners on a sitar journey. Thanks to the late Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar who ...

Vilayat Khan’s sitar was not an external prop; it had become an extension of his body, another limb. Even when he was not playing, he would constantly engage with his instrument, stare at it, fiddle ...

On the death anniversary of John Lee Hooker, one of the most legendary blues musicians, I feel like treading down memory lane on my rendezvous with the genre. On the death anniversary of John Lee ...

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 ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

Shakir, who plays with an Austrian-German jazz band in Europe, says, "I have not compromised with the standards of the sitar. I have simply managed to blend the sitar with jazz sounds." PUNE: The year ...