Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page attended 11-time Grammy nominee Anoushka Shankar’s concert at the Brighton Festival, the latter said on Friday, expressing joy and excitement over the legendary guitarist’s appreciation for her music.

Sharing pictures from the music festival, the 43-year-old sitarist wrote, “So apparently the one and only @jimmypage was at my show last week?! I can’t believe he then actually posted about it - sharing photos, kind words and a lovely anecdote from years ago. It’s such a particular and special privilege playing for other musicians, and when it’s people I truly admire it’s an incredible feeling. I’m also glad he mentioned my band, as they truly are uniquely wonderful.”

Earlier, Page took to Instagram and shared a long note replete with appreciation for Anoushka and her band.

Sharing an anecdote about missing the opportunity to watch a live performance by Anoushka at the Womad festival, the veteran guitarist wrote, “I had not had the opportunity to hear her play before, although I had visited Womad a number of years ago, where she was billed to play with her father Ravi. They were playing in a huge tent which was jammed to the gills with people who had got there earlier than me and there was no room left to squeeze in to even feel their presence. As far as I could tell they were not going through a PA and I couldn’t hear a note being played, so that magical opportunity was sorely missed.”

“I knew that Anoushka had previously performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, so I had no idea what we were going to see and hear in Brighton,” he added.

Heaping praise on Anoushka and her band, Page added, “In fact: it was three amazing musicians accompanying her: one played the drums; one played the upright bass; and one played the keyboards and dazzling clarinet, plus she was incorporating effects pedals to augment in every possible way the beautiful ethereal music she was creating.”

“All I can say about this concert was that it was beyond anything I could have possibly imagined as, quite frankly, it was totally on another level to anything I had ever heard emanating from the sitar,” Page signed off.

Anoushka bagged two nominations at the 67th Grammy Awards — one for her featured role in Jacob Collier’s song, A Rock Somewhere, and the other for her solo album, Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn.

Daughter of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anoushka first gained attention in 2002 when she became the youngest nominee and the first Indian woman to be nominated in the World Music category for her album Live At Carnegie Hall at the Grammy Awards. Three years later, Anoushka made history by becoming the first Indian-origin musician to perform at the Grammys.

She served as a presenter at the annual award ceremony in 2016 and performed for the second time in 2021. In 2023, Anoushka performed for the third time at the prestigious music awards.