Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 12 : Popular sitar player Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, the youngest and last disciple of the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar, has announced the dates and cities for his classical music tour, which will visit different parts of the country.
Titled 'Sitar For Mental Health', the 10-city tour presented and produced by Team Innovation, will be held in New Delhi, Mumbai, Indore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Chandigarh between April and May of 2025.
Check out the tour schedule here
New Delhi - Sunday, April 6, 2025
Mumbai - Sunday, April 13, 2025
Pune - Friday, April 18, 2025
Ahmedabad - Sunday, April 20, 2025
Bengaluru - Sunday, April 27, 2025
Jaipur - Friday, May 2, 2025
Hyderabad - Sunday, May 4, 2025
Indore - Friday, May 9, 2025
Chandigarh - Sunday, May 11, 2025
Kolkata - Sunday, May 18, 2025
Tickets will be available for pre-sale on the District app by Zomato starting February 14, at 4 PM for HSBC Credit Card holders. General ticket sales will begin on February 16, 2025, at 4 PM, with prices starting from Rs. 1499 onwards.
Rishab Rikhiram Sharma "belongs to a world-renowned family of musical instrument makers", a business started by his grandfather in 1920, in Lahore of undivided India. He picked up the instrument at the age of 10.
In 2022, he was invited to perform his 'Sitar For Mental Health' set in the then US President Joe Biden's annual Diwali celebrations and even made it to the President's Instagram account. His admiration within the music industry has been significantly notable that he became the first sitarist of his generation to give a solo performance at the NGR Stadium in Houston Texas that attracted a live audience of 60,000+ people and 500+ million at-home live viewers. He also performed at Woodstock 50 Reunion (50 years of Woodstock Festival), paying tribute to the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar.
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