Anoushka Shankar / Prague Spring Festival /
24/5/2010 20:00 - The daughter of a living legend of Indian classical music, virtuoso on the sitar Ravi Shankar, who performed at the Prague Spring more than 50 years ago, returns to the festival stage after five years with the star-studded international group Anoushka Shankar Project.
Anoushka Shankar, the daughter of the living legend of classical Indian music, Ravi Shankar (a sitar virtuoso, who performed at the Prague Spring Festival fifty years ago and together with Anoushka's sister, the singer Norah Jones, and Sting, was a guest musician on her last album, Breathing Under Water), is returning to the Festival stage for the first time in five years, now with a stellar international ensemble, the Anoushka Shankar Project.
In addition to Anoushka's sitar, we'll be hearing the Indian musicians Tonmoy Bose on the tabla and Ravichandra Kulur on flutes and the khanjira (a kind of tambourine), together with a British player of the tanpura (a traditional Indian lute), Nick Able, and Pirashanna Thevarajah on mridangam (a South Indian percussion instrument).
Anoushka Shankar (sitar)
Tanmoy Bose (percussion instrument)
Ravichandra Kulur (flute, kanjira)
Pirashanna Thevarajah (mridangam)
Nick Able (tanpura)
For more information please go to www.festival.cz
Presented by the Prague Spring Festival
In addition to Anoushka's sitar, we'll be hearing the Indian musicians Tonmoy Bose on the tabla and Ravichandra Kulur on flutes and the khanjira (a kind of tambourine), together with a British player of the tanpura (a traditional Indian lute), Nick Able, and Pirashanna Thevarajah on mridangam (a South Indian percussion instrument).
Anoushka Shankar (sitar)
Tanmoy Bose (percussion instrument)
Ravichandra Kulur (flute, kanjira)
Pirashanna Thevarajah (mridangam)
Nick Able (tanpura)
For more information please go to www.festival.cz
Presented by the Prague Spring Festival
Tickets:
CZK 500 / standing
CZK 1,100 / sitting
Tickets available only at Ticketpro outlets.
