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Darbar festival 
Location(s) London Years active 2005–present Founded by Sandeep Singh Virdee Genre Indian classical music Website darbar.org.uk The Darbar Festival is an Indian classical music festival that takes place every Easter weekend in London. It brings together musicians from the north Indian Hindustani and south Indian Carnatic classical traditions. [1]
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Darbar Festival Artist's
2009
- Harmeet Virdee (Sitar)
- Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (North Indian Hindustani Vocal)
- Ganesh and Kumaresh (South Indian Carnatic Violin)
- Rupak Kulkarni (Bansuri or North Indian bamboo flute)
- Aruna Sairam (South Indian Carnatic Vocal)
- Somjit Das Gupta (Rabaab) and Sukhvinder Singh 'Pinky' (Jori)
- Tejendra Majumdar (Sarod) and Pandit Kumar Bose (Tabla)
- UK Carnatic Ensemble
- Wasifuddin Dagar (Dhrupad Vocal)
- Purbayan Chatterjee (Sitar) and Shashank Subramanium (Venu or Carnatic flute)
- Satish Kumar (Mridangam) and Sukhvinder Singh 'Pinky' (Jori)
2010
- 1 April
- Encounter: Patricia Rozario and Veena Sahasrabuddhe
- 2 April
- Double Concert: Carnatic Veena / Sarangi
- Tabla Solo by Satyajit Talwalkar
- Double concert: Sunil Kant Gupta / Ranjani and Gayatri
- Film: Ramchand Pakistani
- 3 April
- Hindustani Khayal with Veena Sahasrabuddhe
- An Audience with santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma / Kushal Das on sitar
- Exploring the Tanpura: A musical discussion
- Double Concert: North-South Indian Percussion / Dhrupad with the Gundecha Brothers
- Film: Lovesongs: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- 4 April
- Rajhesh Vaidhya: Carnatic Veena with a Difference
- An audience with Ranjani & Gayatri / Venkatesh Kumar
- Exploring the Kanjira: A musical discussion
- Double concert: sarod recital / santoor by Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma
- Film: Zubeidaa
- 6 April (Cobham, Surrey)
- Sunil Kant Gupta on Indian Flute
- 9 April (Birmingham, Town Hall)
- Shiv Kumar Sharma on Santoor
- 10 April (Sage Gateshead)
- Shiv Kumar Sharma on Santoor
- 10 April (NAE, Nottingham)
- Roopa Panesar on Sitar
- 11 April (Curve Leicester)
- Shiv Kumar Sharma on Santoor
2011
References
- ^ "Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust". http://www.darbar.org.uk/. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
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- Indian classical music
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