Anoushka Shankar

After two pandemic-related postponements, Anoushka is thrilled that she will be finally performing for her father’s Centenary Celebration concert at London’s Southbank Centre. Anoushka and her sister Norah Jones have put together a show to pay tribute to their father and celebrate his life’s work. Many of Ravi Shankar’s senior disciples and loved ones will be joining Anoushka onstage along with special guest Nitin Sawhney. It will be an evening of music highlighting his multi-genre work, including Indian Classical, East – West collaborations and songs from films. Throughout the day there will be other events taking place to mark his music and influence, the details of which can be found on The Southbank Centre website.

The show is currently sold-out but do keep an eye on tickets in case anything changes:

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Anoushka will be performing at Expo Dubai 2020 on 6th Febrauary 2022. Exclusively for Expo Dubai 2020 a pioneering women’s ensemble has been developed under the creative direction and leadership of Oscar winner A.R Rahman. She is looking forward to playing alongside these inspiring and talented female Artists.

She looks forward to seeing you there!

Tickets available here

To kickstart the year Anoushka will be performing at Glasgow’s annual folk, roots and world music festival - Celtic Connection 2022. The festival is a celebration of music cultures across the globe and she is honoured to be taking part on 28th January 2022. This festival was close to getting cancelled so Anoushka feels especially grateful and excited to be starting the year with such a fabulous event. She will be re-visiting her father Ravi Shankar’s Concerto No.3 for sitar and orchestra along with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

A few tickets are still available and Anoushka would love to see you there!

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Anoushka recently served as a guest curator on Qwest TV, a global hub for music and culture created by Quincy Jones. You can watch amazing concerts, documentaries, interviews and archive films. Anoushka's selection reflects a diverse mix of different artists such as Robert Glasper, Ella Fitzgerald, Shabaka Hutchings, Paco de Lucia, Oumou Sangare and Anoushka’s father Ravi Shankar.

Anoushka’s rescheduled Reflektor Festival will be taking place at Hamburg’s iconic Elbphilharmonie from 4th to 7th November 2021. Anoushka has curated the festival to feature a diverse array of South Asian art forms and artists dear to her. She is also performing twice: the live score to ‘Shiraz’ alongside the film on Friday 5th and music from her latest EP ‘Love Letters’ on Sunday 7th.

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Anoushka has been nominated for the ‘Best Television Soundtrack’ award for the BBC TV series ‘A Suitable Boy.’ She co-composed the music for entire series alongside Alex Heffes during lockdown. The Ivor Novello Awards are presented to celebrate British and Irish songwriting and screen composition, and are one of the most prestigious UK awards.

It is with huge excitement that Anoushka can finally share that her sister Norah Jones is the featured vocalist on a brand new song “Opening, Flowering, Drinking.” The song was released as part of the extended release “Love Letters PS,” available on all listening platforms.

Listen here to “Opening, Flowering, Drinking”

Composed and Produced by Anoushka Shankar and Alev Lenz
Vocals: Norah Jones
Sitar: Anoushka Shankar
Background Vocals: Anandi Bhattacharya
Cello and Cello Arrangement: Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Bass: Nina Harries
Ghatam: Pirashanna Thevarajah
Mixed by Matt Robertson Music
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Released on Mercury KX
https://mkx.lnk.to/AnoushkaLoveLettersPS

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'Sister Susannah’ is the new single taken from Anoushka Shankar’s forthcoming release, Love Letters P.S., out on June 4th on Mercury KX. Co-written with Alev Lenz, the song also features a spoken word poem by renowned poet Nikita Gill.

Speaking about the track Anoushka says “‘Sister Susannah’ highlights the ways in which victims of abuse and domestic abuse are verbally and physically broken down by their abusers. Over the last year the world has experienced so many collective traumas, whilst many individuals have also suffered personal traumas. Victims of domestic in particular were put into the most horrendous of situations as lockdowns came into place around the world. Right now, after the tragic murder of a young woman in London and on hearing the statistic that 97% of young women have experienced sexual harassment, women are again feeling a collective sense of anger, pain and loss. I hope that Sister Susannah can add in any way to the discussions that so deeply need to be had.”

Music and Lyrics by Anoushka Shankar and Alev Lenz
Spoken Word Lyrics by Nikita Gill
Sitar and Spoken Word - Anoushka Shankar
Vocals - Nina Harries, Alev Lenz, Anandi Bhattacharya
Percussion - Manu Delago
Produced by Anoushka Shankar and Alev Lenz
Mixed by Matthew Robertson
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Anoushka couldn’t be prouder be have been asked to be an ambassador for a truly amazing artistic and humanitarian project called ‘The Walk’ which is presented by Good Chance Theatre, Stephen Daldry, Tracey Seaward and Handspring Puppet Company. Other ambassadors include Waad Al-Kateab, Gillian Anderson, Noma Dumezweni, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anish Kapoor, Gary Lineker, Magid Magid, Michael Morpurgo, Philippe Sands QC, Juliet Stevenson and V (formerly Eve Ensler).

‘The Walk’ will be done by a 3.5m tall puppet of a 9-year-old girl called Little Amal. She will be travelling over 8000km between Turkey and Europe in search of her mother. Little Amal is an emblem of the millions of displaced refugee children around the world – many of whom are separated from their families.

To find out more or offer a donation of any size please visit: https://www.walkwithamal.org