Monday Music: Raga Flamenco (Anoushka Shankar)

A few weeks back, I featured a young Ravi Shankar playing an Indian Raga on his sitar. Here is one of his talented daughters, Anoushka Shankar, a true virtuoso on the sitar, with Raga Flamenco. Nora Jones, by the way is the late Ravi Shankar's other talented daughter.

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Monday Music: Raga Pancham Se Gara (Ravi Shankar)

Two remarkable musicians: a young Ravi Shankar on sitar accompanied by Allah Rakha on the tabla. In this live recording (from 1968), both musicians bear honorific titles: "Pandit" Ravi Shankar -- Pandit is a Hindu term for scholar in philosophy or music; and "Ustad" Allah Rakha -- ustad is a term for teacher. Both men were quite accomplished musicians.

Pandit Ravi Shankar & Ustad Allah Rakha performing live for the BBC at Pebble Mill

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