USTAD NOOR BAKHSH

Name: USTAD NOOR BAKHSH
Start: 2025-08-27T19:00:00+01:00
Location: 70-71 Rose Hill Terrace, BN1 4JL Brighton, United Kingdom

Schedule

Wed, 27 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

70-71 Rose Hill Terrace, BN1 4JL Brighton, United Kingdom | Brighton, EN

WEDNESDAY 27TH AUGUST 2025 | 7PM | £16 ADV // £10 CONCS // PWYC
By an incredible twist of fate, we are welcoming back the incredible and unique maestro Ustad Noor Bakhsh to Brighton and this time in the intimate space at The Rose Hill! This man sold out the Queen Elizabeth Hall last year and it really IS unheard of to hear him play in such an intimate setting! A super rare opportunity to witness this world renowned virtuoso player of the electric Balochi ‘Benju’ close up.
Ustad is a world renowned virtuoso of an extremely unusal instrument (electic Benju) from a fascinating part of the world (Makran coastal border of Pakistan/Iran). He plays rarely-heard long-form spiritual dance music called Balochi - it’s infectious, you won’t be able to stay still - and you won’t want to!
We hosted Ustad at The Con Club, Lewes last summer - naturally it sold out super quick and this will be no different.
“Bakhsh’s trills and cascading improvisations are guided by the unending pursuit of beauty, the simultaneous embrace of sorrow and transcendence (…) It’s the kind of music that leaves you grasping for the spiritual and indefinable, that burrows into your soul and glows there!!”
— Pitchfork
After his first ever UK gig in March 2024, his sell out show at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank) London ended up as a riotous dance party with EVERYONE out of their seats and moving to the stunning music. It was no surprise when this happened at Lewes Con Club last summer and it’ll be no surprise when it happens AGAIN - this time at The Rose Hill this August.
“ He is a master of his instrument, which at times takes your consciousness off to distant faraway places, and as high in the sky as the birdsong he is inspired by.”
— Sonny Tyler, BrightonAndHoveNews.Org