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# Who plays on the A Hundred Strings tour?

 Updated 18 October 2026

 

Three musicians play sitar, santoor and tabla at every date on the tour. In Manchester, a second tabla player, **Ustad Shahbaz Hussain**, joins them. He lives in Manchester and teaches across the north of England.

- [**Adnan Khan**](/en-gb/artist/adnan-khan), sitar: a Grammy-nominated sitarist from Delhi who plays in the gayaki ang, the approach that shapes the sitar after the singing voice.
- [**Vinay Desai**](/en-gb/artist/vinay-desai), santoor: a direct disciple of Shivkumar Sharma, who received the Padma Vibhushan.
- [**Ustad Akram Khan**](/en-gb/artist/akram-khan), tabla: the seventh generation of his family in the Ajrada gharana.



 

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