38 - Nick Able - Multi Instrumentalist - 'Playing with the Best, Battling with the rest'
Nick Able from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK is a multi instrumentalist, composer, educator and performing musician of over two decades, praised for his musical talent as a teenager by local stars Sting and Mark Knopfler. Nick was a student and disciple of the great, late Pandit Ravi Shankar where he lived and toured internationally with the Shankar family for more than 10 years and performed at venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, London, Carnegie Hall, NYC, Sydney Opera House, Australia, The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, The National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, as well as headlining festivals WOMAD, Reading UK, The Sacred World Music Festival, Fes Morocco, and many private events including those for ROLEX, for various charities such as The Elephant Foundation and PETA to name a few. Nick became a member of the Anoushka Shankar Ensemble in 2006 touring globally on her ‘Rise’ tour, her album which was nominated for a grammy award and has accompanied Anoushka in concerts globally for 21 years, most recently at the Elbphilharomonie, Hamburg Germany, The Philharmonie de Paris and the Ravi Shankar Centenary Concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London with guests, Dhani Harrison, John McLaughlin and Nitin Sawhney. Nick composes music for TV, video games, multimedia, installations and films. He also works as an educator and runs the Andy James Guitar Academy alongside Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Andy James, and works as an Internet Entrepreneur having partnered with guitar legend Frank Gambale, Daniel Tompkins of TesseracT and helped many others as a consultant, most notably Alan Robson MBE on his site RobsonsWorld.com. After more than 10 years working in online education and the internet, Nick is reemerging into music after a dark period with a unique sound medicine and sound healing aspect to his work following years of frequency meditation and linking this back to his years learning from the great Pandit Ravi Shankar and the deep healing powers of music. Nick will release his first solo album in early 2025. Nick is developing a new website and can be contacted through there and on all major social media. - https://nickablemusic.com/ Hes also featured on some other great podcasts, details below: The Above Average Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0y8C8xE7vFMn2kAuuirPyU?si=a76f4b45aefd46b4 Kingdom of Rock Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ulWGzJi3OPlKiAEPj3X0b?si=826ec5e5eba34010
