EPISODE · Dec 20, 2023 · 42 MIN
Shanta Nurullah: The Sister with the Sitar
from Cultural Manifesto · host WFYI Public Media
This week on Cultural Manifesto listen to an interview with the Chicago-based musician and storyteller Shanta Nurullah. During a college trip to India in 1969 she discovered the sitar. Nurullah has spent the last 50 years exploring the instrument in her jazz and blues compositions. The Indiana jazz pianist and civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Marvin Chandler passed away earlier this year. Listen back to Kyle Long’s 2020 interview with Chandler, and hear Indianapolis Deputy Mayor Judith Thomas share her memories of Chandler.
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Hear an interview with the Chicago-based musician and storyteller Shanta Nurullah. And listen back to Kyle Long’s 2020 interview with the Indiana jazz pianist and civil rights activist, Rev. Dr. Marvin Chandler, who passed away earlier this year. Indianapolis Deputy Mayor Judith Thomas will also share her memories of Chandler.
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