6th December 2019 at SOAS (Brunei Gallery), London WC1.

Part of SOAS Concert Series. www.soas.ac.uk/music/events/concerts/.

Country: India (British born). Style: Sufi - Kalam.

Lineup: Najma Akhtar (v/harmonium), William Rees Hofmann (sarod/rubab), Sirish [Sirishkumar] Manji (tabla).

Najma Akhtar was born in Chelmsford to a familly from Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh. Sge made a big impact in 1988 with her first album which mixed Ghazal and Jazz. She is besr known since for her collaboratios with Rock musicians (e.g. Robert Plant, Jah Wooble, Gary Lucas) usually performing with standard rock group instrumentation. This was a much more traditional set of Sufiana Kalam accompanied by Sirish Manji (the son of Pandit Bhagwanji Manji) and William Rees Hofmann (a Doctoral Researcher at SOAS).
More information: www.najmaakhtar.com/, www.facebook.com/najmaakhtarfanpage.

Tags:   World Music India Kalam Sufi Music Najma Akhtar Harmonium [South Asian] Harmonium [with hand bellows] Harmonium SOAS Concert Series SOAS

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6th December 2019 at SOAS (Brunei Gallery), London WC1.

Part of SOAS Concert Series. www.soas.ac.uk/music/events/concerts/.

Country: India (British born). Style: Sufi - Kalam.

Lineup: Najma Akhtar (v/harmonium), William Rees Hofmann (sarod/rubab), Sirish [Sirishkumar] Manji (tabla).

Najma Akhtar was born in Chelmsford to a familly from Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh. Sge made a big impact in 1988 with her first album which mixed Ghazal and Jazz. She is besr known since for her collaboratios with Rock musicians (e.g. Robert Plant, Jah Wooble, Gary Lucas) usually performing with standard rock group instrumentation. This was a much more traditional set of Sufiana Kalam accompanied by Sirish Manji (the son of Pandit Bhagwanji Manji) and William Rees Hofmann (a Doctoral Researcher at SOAS).
More information: www.najmaakhtar.com/, www.facebook.com/najmaakhtarfanpage.

Tags:   World Music India Kalam Sufi Music Najma Akhtar SOAS Concert Series SOAS

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6th December 2019 at SOAS (Brunei Gallery), London WC1.

Part of SOAS Concert Series. www.soas.ac.uk/music/events/concerts/.

Country: India (British born). Style: Sufi - Kalam.

Lineup: Najma Akhtar (v/harmonium), William Rees Hofmann (sarod/rubab), Sirish [Sirishkumar] Manji (tabla).

Najma Akhtar was born in Chelmsford to a familly from Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh. Sge made a big impact in 1988 with her first album which mixed Ghazal and Jazz. She is besr known since for her collaboratios with Rock musicians (e.g. Robert Plant, Jah Wooble, Gary Lucas) usually performing with standard rock group instrumentation. This was a much more traditional set of Sufiana Kalam accompanied by Sirish Manji (the son of Pandit Bhagwanji Manji) and William Rees Hofmann (a Doctoral Researcher at SOAS).
More information: www.najmaakhtar.com/, www.facebook.com/najmaakhtarfanpage.

Tags:   World Music India Kalam Sufi Music Najma Akhtar SOAS Concert Series SOAS

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6th December 2019 at SOAS (Brunei Gallery), London WC1.

Part of SOAS Concert Series. www.soas.ac.uk/music/events/concerts/.

Country: India (British born). Style: Sufi - Kalam.

Lineup: Najma Akhtar (v/harmonium), William Rees Hofmann (sarod/rubab), Sirish [Sirishkumar] Manji (tabla).

Najma Akhtar was born in Chelmsford to a familly from Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh. Sge made a big impact in 1988 with her first album which mixed Ghazal and Jazz. She is besr known since for her collaboratios with Rock musicians (e.g. Robert Plant, Jah Wooble, Gary Lucas) usually performing with standard rock group instrumentation. This was a much more traditional set of Sufiana Kalam accompanied by Sirish Manji (the son of Pandit Bhagwanji Manji) and William Rees Hofmann (a Doctoral Researcher at SOAS).
More information: www.najmaakhtar.com/, www.facebook.com/najmaakhtarfanpage.

Tags:   World Music India Kalam Sufi Music Najma Akhtar SOAS Concert Series SOAS

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6th December 2019 at SOAS (Brunei Gallery), London WC1.

Part of SOAS Concert Series. www.soas.ac.uk/music/events/concerts/.

Country: United States (British resident). Style: Sufi - Kalam.

Lineup: Najma Akhtar (v/harmonium), William Rees Hofmann (sarod/rubab), Sirish [Sirishkumar] Manji (tabla).

Najma Akhtar was born in Chelmsford to a familly from Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh. Sge made a big impact in 1988 with her first album which mixed Ghazal and Jazz. She is besr known since for her collaboratios with Rock musicians (e.g. Robert Plant, Jah Wooble, Gary Lucas) usually performing with standard rock group instrumentation. This was a much more traditional set of Sufiana Kalam accompanied by Sirish Manji (the son of Pandit Bhagwanji Manji) and William Rees Hofmann (a Doctoral Researcher at SOAS).
More information: www.najmaakhtar.com/, www.facebook.com/najmaakhtarfanpage.

Tags:   World Music United States Kalam Sufi Music William Rees Hofmann Najma Akhtar Sarod SOAS Concert Series SOAS

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