An evening of Indian folk and classical music with Manish Pingle.

Manish Pingle is a virtuoso mohan veena (Indian slide guitar) player and began his tutelage under the late Shri Vishnu Waliwadekar. Manish is now one of the senior disciples of Ustad Shahid Paravez, the famous sitar maestro of Itawa gharana. Manish has introduced a slight variant to his right hand picking technique to his contemporaries Pt Vishwamohan Bhatt and Debashish Bhattacharya by using index finger and thumb on the main melody strings allowing for a tremendous advantage for speed. He also experimented by adding an extra base string, which helps him attain an additional half lower octave. Manish has toured regularly throughout the world and recently returned from sold out shows in Scandinavia and France. Manish will be playing a selection of traditional Indian ragas as well as some folk tunes accompanied by the Sydey-based tabla player Nikhil Harischandrakar.

Manish's east coast of Australia tour coincides with the release of Samarpan, out now on Ramble Records

https://manishpingle.bandcamp.com/album/samarpan