The Asian Music Circuit Presents: Indian and Afghan traditional vocal music

Musicians and instruments:

Veronica Doubleday will be singing traditional Afghan folk and popular songs and playing the daireh (frame drum), with John Baily (Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths) on Afghan rubab, a short necked double chambered plucked lute with sympathetic strings, and dutar, a two-stringed long-necked lute.

Debipriya Das, Sitar and Vocals Debipriya, vocalist/ sitarist for Tarang (UK¹s first National South Asian Ensemble) will be performing light-classical musical forms in both Hindi and Bengali on her plucked stringed lute, which derives its resonance from sympathetic strings, a long hollow neck and a gourd resonating chamber. She will be accompanied on the tabla by 13 year old Janan Sathiendran.