Sama Arts Network is one of the UK’s oldest and most influential arts organisations in the genre of traditional and contemporary South Asian arts. It also presents Orchestral, Jazz and World Music.
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INDO JAZZ COLLABORATIONS – THE MUSIC OF JOHN MAYER with an Exhibition.
Taking inspiration from his father, Jonathan Mayer revisited material from the 1960s. John Mayer formerly Indo Jazz Fusions in 1966 and this quartet will also play new original material.
Jonathan Mayer – Sitar
Mitel Purohit – Tabla
Tony Levein – Drums
Steve Tromans – Piano
| 19 DEC / 7:30pm / 10 | Concert | Storey’s Field Centre | Book Now |
A celebration of Words, Poetry and Music.
| 24 Sep / 6:30pm | Concert | Najma Aktar | Nehru Centre |
| 30 Sep / 6:30pm | Concert | Kaleem Sheikh | Nehru Centre |
| 30 Oct / 6:30pm | Concert | Sanjeev & Karuna Loomba | Nehru Centre |
| 28 Nov / 6:30pm | Concert | Kamalbir Singh. Accompanied By Manjit Singh Rasiya Tabla, Ikram Khan Sarangi — Book Now |
Nehru Centre |
| 1 Dec / 7:30pm | Concert | Zeeshan Ali Accompanied By Shabaz Hussain Tabla — Book Now |
The Curve, Slough |
| 3 Dec / 6:30pm | Concert | Puja Gupta Accompanied By Shabaz Hussain Tabla — Book Now |
Nehru Centre |
| 6 Dec / 6:30pm | Concert | Mehtab Malhotra Accompanied By Af Malhotra Tabla, Ikram Khan Sarangi, Junaid Khan Sarangi —Book Now |
Nehru Centre |
IRFAN KHAN QUARTET
Ustad Irfan Khan is the khalifa (head) of the ancient Lucknow Shajahanpur Gharana (Traditional School) of instrumental music and is one of the last instrumentalists of the subcontinent with a vast repertoire of historic compositions and a detailed insight into Raga grammar.
His ancestors were rubab players and came to India as martial musicians from Afghanistan in the 17th century. In Lucknow they mixed with the court musicians and modified the rubab into what would become the sarod.
| 21 Nov / 6:30pm | Concert | Nehru Centre Solo Performance accompanied by Gurdain Rayyat Tabla |
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| 22 NOV / 7:30pm / £20 | Concert | Purple Playhouse Theatre, Hove | Book Now |
| 24 NOV / 8pm / £20 | Concert | Tileyard Studios, London | Book Now |
| 25 NOV / 7pm / £13.50 - £11.50 | Concert | Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich | Book Now |
ZEESHAN ALI
Zeeshan Ali is the student of Ustad Mehdi Hasan Khan sahib and has spent his life in around the art of Ghazal Gayaki. Zeeshan was fortunate enough to be awarded the first place prize in the Asian Song Contest whereby he was given a HMV gold plate by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sahib. Zeeshan has spent over 30 years amongst greats seeking their blessings and taleem, some of which include the great Ustad Salamat Ali Khan sahib, Ustad Pervaiz Mehdi Khan sahib and Ustad Ghulam Ali Khan Sahib, to name a few. Zeeshan hopes to spread the name of his Great Ustad through his passion for music.
| 1 DEC / 6pm / £20 | Concert | The Curve, Slough | Book Now |