Chaar Yaar (India)

DR MADAN GOPAL SINGH AND CHAAR YAAR

WITH DHRUV SANGARI  (INDIA)

Sufi music is the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of the Sufi poets. Qawwali is the most well known form of Sufi music, popular in both India and Pakistan.

Two of India’s most highly regarded exponents of modern Sufi music, Dr Madan Gopal Singh and Dhruv Sangari, will present a sublime evening of song, along with the instrumental ensemble, Chaar Yaar.

A well-known name in the world of cinema, art and cultural history, Madan Gopal Singh is a treasure-house of Sufi music and folk poetry. At music festivals around the world, he has performed Punjabi translations of Rumi, Attar, Rilke, Neruda, Brecht, Rabindranath Tagore and even John Lennon. Singh has composed music for many films and been invited to sing at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, and the closing ceremony of Belgium’s Festival of India.

Dhruv Sangari’s repertoire includes Persian and Arabic poetry, Punjabi and Hindi song and Urdu poetry. He has performed both classical and qawwali music all over India and has worked under many great artists such as Ustad Iqbal Khan, Vidya Rao and Madan Gopal Singh. Sangari has regularly pushed musical boundaries in his collaborations with the likes of Mexican saxophonist Ariel Guzik, Egyptian dancer Ahmed Faares, British electronic musician Vishal Gopal, and Russian violinist Gennady Lavrentyev.

Artists: Dr Madan Gopal Singh, Dhruv Sangari, Pritam Ghosal (sarod player), Deepak Castelino (guitar & banjo), Gurmeet Singh Khokhar

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