• Included in the Obituaries List.
• The world is a sadder place for sure now with the passing of Ravi Shankar, one of the great masters of the sitar and Indian music.

Martin Winfree

December 13, 2012

The world is a sadder place for sure now with the passing of Ravi Shankar, one of the great masters of the sitar and Indian music who connected with American hippie culture for awhile – he played a landmark concert at Monterey Pop in 1967 and also at Woodstock in 1969 – but later became disillusioned with it all and began distancing himself from that. You might not know that singer Norah Jones is his daughter.