This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli sitting in for Terry Gross. Ravi Shankar, who popularized the sitar and Indian music in America, died this week at the age of 92. He befriended the Beatles, gave ...

Alexander (right) supports Shehzad Muizzuddin. Direct support professionals (DSP), those who work with individuals with physical or developmental disabilities, were spotlighted Sept. 9 through 15, ...

When George Harrison was in the womb, his mother, Louise, used to play Radio India. She hoped that the Eastern music would calm her rambunctious unborn child. Years later, George heard the funky ...

AT A music festival in California in June 1967, a middle-aged sitar player watched Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire. The crowd cheered. Ravi Shankar was horrified. Mr Shankar, who died in San Diego ...

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Mischa Barton has revealed that she is attempting to learn to play the sitar while making her upcoming film in India. The former OC star spent her Christmas holidays in South Goa filming Bhopal: A ...

LONG BEACH — The scheduled Sunday concert at the Terrace Theater by noted Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar was called off after the 91-year-old musician fell ill. The event has been ...

Tour globally, work locally - that just might have been the Donkeys' mantra when the San Diego band decided to up and make the recent "Born With Stripes." Never mind that the group had history in San ...