31/05/2018 - 06/06/2018 All Day Songlines Encounters Festival Kings Place, London
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01/11/2017 - 07/11/2017 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm London International Arts Festival London International Arts Festival, London
02/06/2017 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Bollywood Brass Band with Jyotsna Srikanth Kings Place, London
Earlier in September, the UK’s electrifying Bollywood Brass Band released their latest album, Carnatic Connections, which is an exciting collaboration with violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, that ventures away from Northern Bollywood and downwards into South Indian film music. A couple of weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with the band’s...
Ok, so they probably haven’t reinvented the Bollywood imaginary… actually, how can you possibly think about reinventing it? But they surely gave it a twist, transporting the characteristic Indian style under Big Ben. Bollywood Brass Band are something more than a tribute band or devoted interpreters of a tradition: they...
09/12/2016 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm Carnatic Connection With Spitalfields Music Rich Mix, London
04/11/2016 - 05/11/2016 8:00 pm - 1:00 am LIAF 2016: Soom T, David X Ft. Bangalore Dreams And ENNÈ Rich Mix, London
Every autumn since 2012, the London International Arts Festival (LIAF) does its best to offer audiences a different perspective of the contemporary London cultural scene. And every autumn since 2012 it succeeds. Since we like to support our claims with facts, just have a look at the Festival calendar, paying...
11/09/2016 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Bollywood Brass Band and Jyotsna Srikanth: Carnatic Connections The Stables, Milton Keynes
For the fourth year in a row and five consecutive days, the London International Arts Festival showed its audience how to amalgamate distant cultures (like Indian Carnatic tradition and afro/Venezuelan jazz) with the London social fabric. Artists and bands from around the world musically interacted on East and North-East London...