The Asian Music Circuit (AMC) has collaborated with Baithak's creation – Tagore's Travelling Trunk – to bring it to the mainstream audiences at the Cadogan Hall in London on December 11 at 7pm.
Written and directed by Sangeeta Datta, the show will have her sons Soumik and Souvid Datta playing the sarod and being the narrator, respectively. Pramita Mallick, Sangeeta Datta, Rosabella Gregory and Sasha Ghoshal will be in vocals, Aindrilla Ghosh, Sejuti Dass and others in dance, Sandip Chakraborty on tabla, Abu Erman on keyboard and Sandip Sen on guitar.
Viram Jasani, CEO of Asian Music Circuit, told the Asian Voice: “I liked the production so much when I first saw it that I wanted the show to have a bigger audience, which is why we are getting them to perform on a broader platform at the Cadogan Hall.”
The highlight of the show is Soumik Datta's 30-minute teaser – a unique documentary series on rural India's hidden and fading folk musicians, commissioned by Channel 4 called 'The Lost Musicians of India'.
“Soumik travelled to the interiors of rural India where he documented and collected rare music and the works of rural musicians. This film will take us back to our roots in India,” said Viram. Souvid Datta assisted him in the project.
Director Sangeeta Datta's “Tagore's Travelling Trunk” is an enchanting performance combining music, dance and poetry that explores the musical influences on one of India’s greatest minds. During his travels, Tagore absorbed the classical, folk and Sufi music of India, including the Sikh Sabadhs from Amritsar, devotional music from the south and folk music of Gujarat. During his travels across the United Kingdom he encountered opera, parlour music, Irish and Scottish folk music.
The AMC is one of the leading promoters of Asian music in the UK. It produced a variety of tours and concerts, seminars, recordings, films and exhibitions to generate a greater awareness and appreciation of the excellence and beauty of Asian music, and to develop a new generation of talented musicians.
By providing access to the full range of Asian music, the AMC is one of the most important organisations of its kind in Europe. Created in 1989 by the Arts Council of Great Britain, it has been run as an independent company and registered charity funded by Arts Council England since 1991.
