| Tour by Ravi Shankar | |
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| Start date | 23 September 1974 |
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| End date | mid October 1974 |
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| Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India | ||||
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| Released | 6 February 1976 | |||
| Recorded | August−September 1974 | |||
| Studio | FPSHOT, Oxfordshire | |||
| Genre | Indian classical, Hindustani classical | |||
| Length | 47:23 | |||
| Label | Dark Horse | |||
| Producer | George Harrison | |||
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Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India was an Indian classical music revue led by sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar intended for Western concert audiences and performed in 1974. Its presentation was the first project undertaken by the Material World Charitable Foundation, set up the previous year by ex-Beatle George Harrison. Long a champion of Indian music, Harrison also produced an eponymous studio album by the Music Festival orchestra, which was released in 1976 on his Dark Horse record label. Both the CD format of the Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India album and a DVD of their performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London were issued for the first time on the 2010 Shankar–Harrison box set Collaborations.
The sixteen members of Shankar's Music Festival from India included Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Alla Rakha, T.V. Gopalkrishnan, L. Subramaniam, Sultan Khan and Lakshmi Shankar. Several of the musicians began successful international careers as a result of their participation, and all are recognised as being among the late twentieth century's finest exponents of Indian classical music. The ensemble played in Europe in September and October 1974 before touring North America with Harrison and his band during the final two months of the year.