Saudha Ghazal Thumri & Kheyal Festival -Keats House| Keats & Contemporaries

A festival of three important genres of Indian semi-classical music that Saudha has been hosting since 2015.

Curated by T M Ahmed Kayshert, the festival offers a fresh new and rare presentations of Ghazal Thumri and Kheyal - three visceral genres of Indian semi-classical music with complementing, re-interpretative verses of poetry from global literature.

The session at the iconic Keats House Museum (The place itself is tourist attraction where poet John Keats lived significantly and creatively important years of his life) is featuring a leading Indian classical vocalist of this time based in London Chandra Chakraborty with Aniruddha Mukherjee on Tabla and with recitation of complenting verses of leading English Romantic poet Keats and his contemporaries. by a powerful performance poet Shree Ganguly.

Saudha's productions Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music and 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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Host or Publisher Saudha, Society of Poetry and Indian Music (www.saudha.org)