Anoushka Shankar ensemble wins Aussie hearts

Anoushka Shankar ensemble wins Aussie hearts
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Sydney, Jun 19 (PTI) Sitarist Anoushka Shankar brought alive Indian classical music as well as fusion at the Sydney Opera Concert Hall as Australian fans and members of the Indian diaspora kept asking for more. The tickets sold out days before she arrived here on her maiden visit forcing hall authorities to release two rows of extra seats right next to the stage.

After a phenomenally successful tour of her World Project in the US and Europe, Anoushka will have more concerts in Tokyo, New Zealand, Taipei and Singapore.

Clad in a red and black striped salwar kameez, she began the concert with Raga Kaushik Dhwani.

The audience was left spellbound as the daughter of legendary Ravi Shankar played the sitar and was accompanied by those playing Western instruments like piano, pizzicato cello and tambourine, besides the traditional tabla, flute and tanpoora.

Leading musicians like Ravichandra Kulur (flute), Tanmoy Bose (tabla), Nick Able (tanpura) and Leo Dombecki (piano) and Barry Phillips (cello) accompanied her.

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