Anoushka Shankar — Azalea stage, Way Out West

Anoushka Shankar seems to live several lives at once. As a masterful sitarist, composer, collaborator, author, activist and boundary-breaker, she has spent more than twenty-five years reshaping how Indian classical music can sound and feel. Shankar has an ability to make ancient instruments feel startlingly present: to move effortlessly between classical ragas and electronic textures, between meditative intimacy and wide-screen feelings. Across albums like “Rise,” “Traveller,” “Traces of You”, “Love Letters P.S.” and her recent series of EP’s, she has woven grief, longing, political urgency, and personal transformation into a body of work that resists all easy categories. Her music never treats tradition as a museum piece, instead it becomes something living and expressive, full of emotional depth. This summer at Way Out West, Anoushka Shankar brings that rare artistic legacy to the stage.

Details:

• 📅 Date: Saturday 15 August 2026
• 🕔 Time: 13:50 (end time not in the published schedule)
• 📍 Stage: Azalea, Slottsskogen, Gothenburg
• 🎟️ Entry: Included in every Way Out West festival ticket
• 👥 Age limit: 13+ (all Slottsskogen stages are open to youth tickets)

Source: wayoutwest.se · set times from the official festival app.