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Heralded around the world for her unique style and sound, award-winning
sitar player Anoushka Shankar is set to make her Australian and New
Zealand debut in June.
Often connected by the media with her father, the legendary sitar
virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar (who inspired The Beatles in the
1960’s) and her half-sister, pop star Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar has
shown herself to be a hugely successful artist in her own right.
Anoushka Shankar is also not someone afraid to speak out. The first
Indian ambassador for the United Nation’s World Food Programme and an
extensive campaigner in India for People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals, she is fast becoming a role model for young independent minded
women, not just in her native Delhi but around the world.
Schooled in the Indian classical music tradition by her father,
Anoushka’s unique style of music cleverly fuses classical Indian,
electronic and world music, and while her name may have brought her to
the stage for the first time as a young girl, it is her talent and
vision that have kept her there.
Anoushka has played with some of the world’s biggest name artists
including George Harrison, Herbie Hancock, Elton John and Sting. She
has received critical acclaim throughout the world, received two Grammy
nominations and also became the first Indian to perform at the Grammy
Awards.
In this, her first Australian tour, Anoushka will be performing
classical Indian as well as her own fusion of eastern and western style
music from her most recent albums, Rise and Breathing Under Water. She
is joined on stage by a band of leading western and eastern musicians
featuring Ravichandra Kulur (Indian flutes and vocals), Tanmoy Bose
(tabla and vocals), Leo Dombecki (acoustic piano), Nick Able(tanpura)
and Barry Phillips (tanpura and cello).
A rare opportunity for world music lovers, Anoushka arrives in
Australia on the back of extensive touring in the United States, Europe
and Asia.
Tour Dates
SYDNEY
Saturday, 14 June, 8pm
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Tickets: $70 - $125
Bookings: 02 9250 7777 or www.sydneyoperahouse.com
MELBOURNE
Sunday, 15 June, 5pm
The Arts Centre, Hamer Hall
Bookings: 1300 136 166* or www.theartscentre.net.au *, (*Transaction fee applies)
Tickets: $35 - $50 Premium tickets also available.
BRISBANE
Wednesday, 18 June, 8pm
QPAC Concert Hall
Bookings: Qtix 136 246 or www.qtix.com.au
Tickets: $38-$78
AUCKLAND
Friday, 20 June, 8pm
Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall, The Edge
Bookings: Ticketek www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 TICKETEK (within New Zealand)
Tickets: $29-69* (Service fees apply)
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