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WOMADelaide 2010 preview

Ravi Shankar
Oct 23, 2009 Updated Oct 26, 2009

Indian sitar superstar Ravi Shankar will headline next year's WOMADelaide Festival.

He'll join more than 300 artists from around the world, including Tex-Mex rockers Calexico and Aussies Xavier Rudd and Jeff Lang, who'll be performing in Djan Djan with tabla meister Bobby singh and Malian kora master, Mamadou Diabate.

Next year's festival will run for four days instead of three, between Friday the fifth and Monday the 8th of march next year.

The full line up for next year's bash will be announced in a few weeks' time.

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Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর Robi Shaunkor; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his...

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