Remember Shakti, enthralls Hyderabadis

RNH Events presented  ‘Remember Shakti’ , live in Hyderabad on the 10th of February 2012. They performed live in concert on 10th February at Chowmahalla Palace. The troupe included John Mc. Laughlin on electric guitar, Zakir Hussain on tabla , Selva Ganesh on kanjira, ghatam and mridangam , U. Srinivasan on electric mandolin and Shankar Mahadevan on vocal.

Shakti is one of the first combinations of musicians trying to do something that crossed all musical boundaries. Formed in 1975, Shakti pioneered a groundbreaking and highly influential east-meets-west collaborative approach. The group, whose name means creative intelligence, beauty and power, now consists of legendary British jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, North Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain, mandolin player U. Srinivasan; and kanjira and ghatam [percussion] player Selva Ganesh, both of whom hail from South India. Together...

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