Nick Able
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, Tim Healey and Mark Knopfler. Nick was a student and disciple of the great, late Pandit Ravi Shankar whom he spent many years living and breathing music under the guidance of his Guru at the Shankar residences in both New Delhi, India and Encinitas, California, was taught in the ‘Guru shishya parampara’ tradition and received 10 years of intense training on the sitar as well as touring internationally with the Shankar family.
He has performed multiple times 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 over two decades whilst accompanying both Ravi and Anoushka in hundreds of concerts worldwide in this period.
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 stepped into the shoes of Gaurav Rainer of one of the biggest electronica acts in Asia; the MIDIval Punditz and was nicknamed ‘Nick Able-ton’ after the music production software program used on this tour, Ableton Live.
He has accompanied Anoushka in concerts globally for 21 years, most recently at the BBC PROMS, Royal Albert Hall, London, 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 multi platinum and gold selling with 11 straight number 1 hits on the Billboard Rock chart band 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 Tony Grey of http://tonygreybassacademy.com Alan Robson MBE on his site RobsonsWorld.com and in 2024 worked with Jari Mäenpää of the Finnish band Wintersun on the marketing of their second Crowdfunding campaign which was a pre-order of their much anticipated album TIME 2 and generated over half million euros. Together with their 2017 crowdfunder which Nick also assisted with, both campaigns collectively generated €990,000 which at the time was one of the biggest crowdfunders in that category worldwide.
After more than 11 years working in online music education, the internet and leading the acquisition and transition of business assets and content from The Andy James Guitar Academy to one of the biggest guitar education sites on the planet; LickLibrary.com, finalising in November 2024, solidifying our presence in the music education sector, Nick is reemerging into music after a dark period with a unique sound medicine and sound healing aspect to his work following years of deep 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 2025 ॐ