Anoushka Shankar: Love Letters

Anoushka Shankar, the sitarist returns for a live performance in our Royal Festival Hall with Love Letters, a collection of songs about love, heartbreak and healing. It's a return for Love Letters, too, as the EP was first performed in the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2019. Anoushka Shankar is a singular figure within the classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic music scenes. She brings tempests of sounds that present ancient instruments in a modern light, not as exotic set pieces, but as living, breathing and wildly expressive gifts. Shankar became a Southbank Centre Associate Artist in 2019, and she performs here in a series of concerts to mark the centenary of the birth of her father, the seminal musician Ravi Shankar. The event will take place on Sunday, May 30.