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Heera Shah, a fakir from Murut village in Burdwan, looks like an unkempt villager in his faded dhuti panjabi. It is only when he brings out his musical instrument that one realises he is an unusual ...
The art of playing the bowed lute – sarinda – is dying. And Ijaz Sarhadi, the last patron from a family of Sarinda players, is struggling to keep the instrument alive in Pakistan.
Jozef Van Wissem, composer, stands with his lute in his Greenpoint apartment in Brooklyn, NY on April 3rd, 2014. Van Wissem is known for his musical collaborations with Jim Jarmusch and scores ...
More recently, Sting featured the lute on his 2006 album, "Songs From the Labyrinth." Mayes grew up in the 1950s during the rise of rock 'n' roll, but his repertoire is rooted in classical and ...