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Purcell Room
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Classical Indian maestro Shrivastav, 'sitarist to the stars' (London Evening Standard), has played with artists such as Doves and Massive Attack.
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The Front Room at QEH
Friday 26 March 2010
With four releases on John Zorn's Tzadik label, prolific accordionist and composer Koby Israelite leads his band in a radical but melody-led collage of sounds that references Jewish prayers, Romanian folk, tango, fin de siecle waltzes, Hendrix, and lounge music in the context of cutting-edge jazz, funk and blues.
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Purcell Room
Friday 26 March 2010
The voice of Faroe Islander Teitur Lassen has the ability to warm the coldest of hearts.
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Gamelan Room
Saturday 27 March 2010 - Saturday 27 March 2010
Come and experience the beautiful Javanese gamelan percussion orchestra at Southbank Centre.
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The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 27 March 2010
Finishing Sound Moves on a high, jazz bands from top music schools, centres and conservatoires across London and the South East play popular dance numbers.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 29 March 2010
A celebration of soul. Combining a live band with 500 voices, this show is not to be missed!
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 8 April 2010
Hosted and curated by Nihal from BBC Radio 1 and BBC Asian Network, this event marks the first time three of the biggest names in UK Bhangra - H-Dhami, Jaz Dhami and Juggy D - perform together on one stage with a full live band.
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Foyer Bar - level 2
Friday 9 April 2010
By combining the notes found in the standard minor scale in Irish music with well-known ragas in Indian music, Milun conjure musical conversations that exchange traditional motifs in a 'question and answer' form, mix haunting sounds with a pounding energy.
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The Front Room at QEH
Friday 9 April 2010
The Teak Project represents a collaboration between three of Britain's finest young improvisers.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Samay/ Malavika Sarukkai: Ganga
Friday 9 April 2010
This evening brings together innovators of Indian dance and music from two different perspectives.
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Yellow Room, Spirit Level
Saturday 10 April 2010
Including performances by Kuljit Bhamra and Mohinder Kaur Bhamra.
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The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 10 April 2010
Join in with an evening of traditional Daandiya Raas dancing with live demonstrations from Necee Arts of the Federation of Patidar association and a chance to dance and perform to live Indian music.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 10 April 2010
One ticket buys you a brilliant mini festival line-up of the most innovative artists from UK and India, with live bands and film soundtrack performances, VJs, DJs, spoken word, comedy and one-off collaborations across the whole of Queen Elizabeth Hall, including the Foyers and Purcell Room.
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Purcell Room
Saturday 17 April 2010
Taking cues from Edgard Varèse's complete recorded work, British electronic artist par excellence Robin Rimbaud - aka Scanner - presents his new score for John S. Robertson's silent film version of Stevenson's classic horror story.
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Royal Festival Hall
Monday 19 April 2010
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio performs a night of deep noise and features Lou Reed on processed and unprocessed guitars, Ulrich Krieger on tenor sax and live-electronics, and Sarth Calhoun on continuum and live processing.
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Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 20 April 2010 - Saturday 24 April 2010
Due to overwhelming public demand a second gig has now been added on Saturday 24 April.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Broadcast + Micachu & the Shapes + Oliver Coates
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Acclaimed for their unique brand of atmospheric melodies and textured electronics, Broadcast are one of the UK's great innovative bands - beguiling and brilliant.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 22 April 2010
The genre-trashing, visually spectacular Chrome Hoof perform in Queen Elizabeth Hall with support from tropical rockers Zun Zun Egui, before LA art-noise band HEALTH and superstar DJ Andrew Weatherall play in The Front Room
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Foyer Bar - level 2
Friday 23 April 2010
Martin Johnson has played with some of the world's most respected musicians, including bassist Dave Bronze (Eric Clapton, Eric Bibb), Snowboy (Lisa Stansfield, Snowboy & The Latin Section) and Neil Robinson (James Taylor Quartet).
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The Front Room at QEH
Friday 23 April 2010
Coinciding with the release of their fourth album Peepers, the indefinable, exhilarating musical force that is Polar Bear plays a Tonic set specially for Ether.
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