Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar, who plays Hindu Temple of Florida in Tampa, Florida on May 4, 2025. Credit: Chinmay R, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Acclaimed Hindustani vocalist and playback icon Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar is in Tampa Bay this weekend and will help the audience get into another zone with unconventional interpretations of well-known raags that become deeply emotional in her hands.

She’ll be in good company, too, thanks to support from Shankh Lahiri on tabla and Anirban Chakrabarty on harmonium.

Tickets to see Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar play Tampa’s Hindu Temple of Florida on Sunday, May 4 are still available and start at $35.

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This article appears in Apr 24-30, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...