Word: sitar
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...slow yet loud and angry tunes of Bongzilla lash at the country’s current marijuana laws in their third release, Gateway. Denmark-based On Trial, armed with their third album titled Blinded By The Sun, evoke the psychedelic 60s through the use of the organ and the sitar. 9:00 p.m. $9; 18+. The Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...multiple Grammy Award winner and Woodstock performer, dubbed “the godfather of world music” by George Harrison and knighted by the Queen of England, continues to spread the gospel about classical Indian music through his legendary sitar playing. Shankar is now joined by his daughter Anoushka. 7:30 p.m. $23-75. Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts...
...nine-year-old, music practice can be a drag, meaning parents typically have to wield the baton, if not the whip. Anoushka Shankar was no exception when it came to shirking homework on the special miniature sitar her folks had made for her when she was that age. "They would sit me down periodically and say 'You don't have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with...
...What the heck is Bollywood? Well, it's not your uncle's Satyajit Ray movies--stately pace, unknown actors, Ravi Shankar sitar music. Bollywood is a star-driven cosmos--actresses with names like Dimple Kapadia, Preity Zinta and Karisma Kapoor; hunks of every age, from stalwart Amitabh Bachchan, 59, to giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan...
...What the heck is Bollywood? Well, it's not your uncle's Satyajit Ray movies?stately pace, unknown actors, Ravi Shankar sitar music. Bollywood is a star-driven cosmos?actresses with names like Dimple Kapadia, Preity Zinta and Karisma Kapoor; hunks of every age, from stalwart Amitabh Bachchan, 59, to giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan...