A New York Evening With Anoushka Shankar

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome 11x GRAMMY Award-nominated artist Anoushka Shankar to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to have a discussion moderated by WNYC’s radio host and author John Schaefer about the creative process behind her latest album, Chapter III: We Return To Light, with a special live performance. 

Anoushka Shankar is one of the many artists to be featured in the GRAMMY Museum’s New York City program series, which includes bringing a slate of the GRAMMY Museum’s renowned GRAMMY In The Schools Education Programs and Public Programs to the East Coast. “A New York Evening With…” is generously supported by the Dawn and Brian Hoesterey Family Foundation.  

About Anoushka Shankar

“Three chapters, three geographies,” Shankar scribbled in a diary at a café in Goa on New Year’s Day two years ago, manifesting the ambitious trilogy with nods to her roots, across continents and collaborators. Where Ch I: Forever, For Now – produced by Arooj Aftab and featuring Nils Frahm – conjures the immense stillness and beauty of a sun-kissed garden, the Peter Raeburn-produced Ch. II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn veiled the garden over, giving rise to the womblike power of darkness. The second chapter was up for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album at this year’s GRAMMYs, and her featured role on Jacob Collier’s song “A Rock Somewhere” was up for the Best Global Performance, marking Shankar’s 10th and 11th nominations.

Central to Ch. III is the mindfulness of India at the root of all her music. For the record, she joined with London-based, Indian multi-instrumentalist Sarathy Korwar, a leading voice in the British jazz scene along with composer and sarod player Alam Khan, son of the famed Indian classical guru, Ali Akbar Khan. Together, the three tap into Shankar’s fascination with Goa Trance – India’s electronic music export – which began in her twenties, when she escaped to the beach state and chased dance floor epiphanies in secret forest raves, participating with wild, youthful abandon.

On Ch. III, Shankar fully embraces a looping and bending sound technique, adding a further dimension to her voice and bringing her music outside of Western definitions of “neoclassical” and even further away from sub-continental norms of “fusion,” a dated, catch-all banner for collaborative, experimental music.

This is where the story ends, where the music returns to ancestral echoes while carving a path for modern Indian sounds, where all three artists step into a space of deep-rooted celebration. Ch. III’s final frame is of someone stepping out from a forest rave into the quietude of a shoreline. The feeling is a mix of nostalgia and renewal. It echoes Shankar’s journey through those Goa raves where all she could do was follow a sign and a person, except it’s now Shankar who is signposting the listener. With Chapter III: We Return to Light, feet meet the water, marking the end of a journey, a return to love, and a place of rest—a perfect, radiant conclusion to the trilogy.

Following the album release Shankar will perform at Big Ears festival in Knoxville and begin a headlining tour with stops in Los Angeles, Houston, Toronto, New York City, and more.

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Show Time: 7:30pm

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