Flying a kite in a hurricane: Beth Hart at the Mahindra Blues Festival

She's a force of nature, you just grab tight and enjoy the ride

Mitali Saran 

Mitali Saran

Last week in Mumbai I bought a tiny cup of fries for a hill of money, but I didn’t mind.

I had already spent a hill of money getting there, and after the first hill the second one doesn’t hurt as badly. In the fries line a young man told me, “You know, she played in Bangalore, but nobody knew who she was, so only about fifty people turned up!” We stared at each other with o-shaped mouths— fraudulently in my case, since I’d only been introduced to Beth Hart’s music a couple of years ago myself, with a YouTube video of her singing a cover of ...

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First Published: Fri, February 15 2019. 14:46 IST