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.

Anoushka Shankar will perform in Slottsskogen on Saturday August 15th.