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Posts Tagged: Sitar

How Ashwin Batish Made the Sitar Cool Again

By Steve Palopoli in News

Jan 14 2014
Ashwin Batish (center), with his sister Meena, who has been singing with him since they played Beatles songs together as kids, and son Keshav, who plays drums. Along with Myron Dove on bass and Murray Low on keyboards, they’ll performJan. 30 at the Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz.

It starts in the mid-’80s at Union Grove Music on Pacific Avenue, where Ashwin Batish bought an amp for $50.

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