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\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span>\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<\/span>Right bang in the middle of summer is when you\u2019ll find a series of events celebrating South Asian music by the river in London. South Asian Sounds<\/strong> arrives as part of the Southbank Centre\u2019s 75th anniversary celebrations, and will see various performances take over their venues on July 1-5<\/strong>. <\/p>\nThose attending multiple events at South Asian Sounds<\/strong> can jump seamlessly from classical to pop to jazz to orchestral sounds, before checking out comedy, dance, live podcasts and fine art. <\/p>\nLondon Bollywood Orchestra with Priyani Vani Panditt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhat events are taking place as part of South Asian Sounds?<\/h2>\n Acts at South Asian Sounds include a performance from Raghu Dixit<\/strong>, who blends a multitude of genres with Indian folk music, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on July 3; as well as a concert by Amrita Kaur to close proceedings at the Royal Festival Hall on July 5. <\/p>\nYou\u2019ll also be able to catch a Friday night Royal Festival Hall performance by the London Bollywood Orchestra<\/strong> with Priyani Vani Panditt <\/strong>on vocals, which promises a \u2018journey of Indian ragas as they blossom into everlasting Bollywood melodies\u2019. <\/p>\nHere is a full lineup of South Asian Sounds events listed on the site so far:<\/p>\n
\nJuly 1 <\/strong>\u2013 Anmol Mohara: Across The Sea (Purcell Room, 7:45pm)<\/li>\nJuly 2<\/strong> \u2013 Rekesh Chauhan: Classically Reimagined (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm)<\/li>\nJuly 3 <\/strong>\u2013 Raghu Dixit (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm)<\/li>\nJuly 3 <\/strong>\u2013 London Bollywood Orchestra with Priyani Vani Panditt (Royal Festival Hall, 7:30pm)<\/li>\nJuly 3<\/strong> \u2013 Thamarai: Pritt + Prito (Purcell Room, 7:30pm)<\/li>\nJuly 4<\/strong> \u2013 Shradhanjali: A Homage to Zakir Hussain (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm)<\/li>\nJuly 4<\/strong> \u2013 Asian Tones: Tara Lily + Shalini Rani (Purcell Room, 7:45pm)<\/li>\nJuly 4<\/strong> \u2013 Hariharan: Soul India (Royal Festival Hall, 8pm)<\/li>\nJuly 5<\/strong> \u2013 Making A Husband: Live (Purcell Room, 2pm)<\/li>\nJuly 5<\/strong> \u2013 Tez Ilyas: Work In Progress (Purcell Room, 6pm)<\/li>\nJuly 5<\/strong> \u2013 Hemantika and Beyond (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 6pm)<\/li>\nJuly 5<\/strong> \u2013 Amrita Kaur (Royal Festival Hall, 6:30pm) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTickets to all the listed events go on general sale this Friday, May 1 at 10am<\/strong>, with a pre-sale for Southbank Centre members also kicking off tomorrow (April 30). <\/p>\nSpeaking on the announcement, Vimal Anandpura, founder of the London Bollywood Orchestra, said: \u201cThe London Bollywood Orchestra is breaking new ground in popular Hindi film music by bringing to life the original, authentic sounds of Mumbai\u2019s recording studios, with London\u2019s finest classical and jazz talent.<\/p>\n
\u201cPriyani Vani Panditt joins us on this exciting adventure, her expressive voice reaching soaring high notes, alongside a deep knowledge of Indian ragas. Through her own innovative style of Rageet, she reveals how Bollywood\u2019s most iconic songs are rooted in Indian classical traditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to be immersed in what promises to be a one-of-a-kind evening\u2014where two distinct musical worlds come together to create an explosion of sound, shaped by those classical nuances. There is no better stage for this initiative than the iconic Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre\u2014an institution that has been bringing world music to new audiences for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n
South Asian Sounds takes place between July 1 and July 5 across various venues at the Southbank Centre. You can find the full list of events taking place and more information on the Southbank Centre\u2019s website<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source secretldn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 Senior Staff Writer \u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 29 April, 2026 Right bang in the middle of summer is when you\u2019ll find a series of events celebrating South Asian music by the river in London. South Asian Sounds arrives as part of the Southbank Centre\u2019s 75th anniversary celebrations, and will see various performances take over their venues on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21800],"class_list":["post-2394734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A-series-of-events-celebrating-South-Asian-music-is-coming.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394736,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394734\/revisions\/2394736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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