Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti

Venue: Middlesbrough Town Hall
Date: Saturday 14th March 2020
Time: 7:30pm
Tickets: Free, but pre-booking essential at middlesbroughtownhall.co.uk

Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti unites India, Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali Baul folk tradition.

Scottish classical guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s innate gift for reinvention and expansion comes together with one of the sub continent's spiritually and musically richest forms. The group features Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida Yesmin, singer and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the Indian Baul heartland of Santiniketan, and Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh, one of a growing number of exceptional female tabla exponents.
 
Baul culture is one of the longest surviving examples of wandering minstrelsy, imbued with mysticism and universal messages of love and truth.
 
Presented by GemArts and Middlesbrough Town Hall.


 

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