Saudha Bangla Music Festival | Marginalised Voices | House of Commons

The festival brings the evolution of exciting genres of Bengali music that originated from 730AD.

Sponsored by Fabian Hamilton MP, the session happening in Committee Room 5 of the Westminster Palace (The House of Commons ) is featuring insightful talks on Marginalised voices in relation to Bengali music with brief performance as part of demonstration by some leading interpreters of different genres. This also bring unheard voices of British Bengali performers from LGBT community based in London, predominately from a group called Aponghor.

The access to the room is through Cromwell Green entrance and the audiences were advised to allow at least 20/30 minutes for security check prior to the event. So best to be there by 5pm for the event starting at 5:30pm.

For direction etc, please ring on 07828190551

Counted as 'The largest and top presentations of Bengali music outside Indian subcontinent' - the festival presents diverse genres of Bengali music from ancient Charajapada, Vaishnav, Ramprasadi, Toppa to Ponchokobi and modern experimental music with English translation and relevant commentaries in different venues around London and other cities.

Saudha Society of Poetry and Indian Music ( www.saudha.org ) is a leading platform for South Asian as well other global classical arts. Saudha is critically acclaimed for its series of experimental productions merging poetry, music and painting seamlessly so that each can complement each other.

Saudha attracted a diverse source of audiences from all different heritages through its series of presentations of mingling and bridging different arts from different corners of the world as the way of interpreting each other. Saudha's productions Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music and the the last one called Songs of Sringar and Seduction at the Royal Albert Hall have been highly praised by prominent ethno-musicologists, music and literature connoisseurs of the city and beyond.Saudha's lyrics of Love at the SouthBank Centre and at Edinburgh Fringe and Chayanaut through Sebastian Bach at the House of Commons, Taste of Twilight at ICCR, Kolkata and the Welsh Parliament were critically acclaimed by major media and musicologists.

During Covid, Saudha took the first ever and historic initiative to connect leading musicians of the globe, writers, poets, painters and filmmakers from all across the world through virtual platforms and the sessions were hugely appreciated by the audiences from all around the globe

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