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Archived Events from Autumn/Winter, 2023

Little Murmur: Aakash Odedra Company

Sunday 19th November 2023

Little Murmur: Aakash Odedra Company

Little Murmur is a new dance theatre show for everyone age 7+, families and schools, that features groundbreaking projection, an extraordinary soundscape and a blizzard of paper and confetti.

Riverside Ragas: Debasmita Bhattacharya (sarod) & Gurdain Rayatt (tabla)

Saturday 21st October 2023

Riverside Ragas: Debasmita Bhattacharya (sarod) & Gurdain Rayatt (tabla)

Enjoy a programme of ragas on the emotive sarod, with sensitive and yet electric accompaniment from Gurdain Rayatt, one of the UK’s leading tabla players. Join us for an evening of exquisite Indian classical music!

Riverside Ragas: Shakir Khan (sitar) & Shahbaz Hussain (tabla)

Friday 10th November 2023

Riverside Ragas: Shakir Khan (sitar) & Shahbaz Hussain (tabla)

In this grand evening of playing, Shakir Khan showcases the art of the Sitar with expert tabla accompaniment by Shahbaz Hussain.

James Yorkston / Jon Thorne / Ranjana Ghatak

Friday 17th November 2023

James Yorkston / Jon Thorne / Ranjana Ghatak

Since 2016 James Yorkston (one of the most “influential singer/songwriters on the Scottish folk scene”), Jon Thorne (best known as jazz double bass player with electro outfit Lamb) and Suhail Yusuf Khan have been exploring the crossover worlds of Indian Classical, Jazz and Folk music.

Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands: The History of a Friendship in conversation with Sinéad Morrissey

Thursday 2nd November 2023

Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands: The History of a Friendship in conversation with Sinéad Morrissey

Chitra Ramaswamy is a journalist and author. Her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a 99-year-old German Jewish refugee called Henry Wuga.