Tickets
from only £4.50 - now on sale! Join us from May 31 - June 6.
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Join us at London's Kings Place
May 31 - June 6
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25% discount for
Songlines subscribers*
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This eighth year of Songlines Encounters
Festival will be the most ambitious yet. With an unprecedented global
spread, we have musicians, instruments and voices from Mali, Morocco,
Madagascar, Mongolia, Syria, Finland, India and, of course, the UK.
There's a Finnish Friday, Syrian Saturday and Indian Sunday. There are
workshops and films too!
Keep up with all the action using hashtag #SonglinesEncounters.
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*Quote
code SONGLINES18 when
ordering. This offer is limited to 30 tickets and excludes Online Saver
tickets.
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Encounters Podcasts
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Interview with
Tuuletar
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Songlines Editor-in-Chief Simon Broughton interviews
Tuuletar, a vocal folk-hop quartet, who are performing on Fri Jun 1.
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Indian Time
Unwrapped - Interview with Soumik Datta
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Celebrated sarod player Soumik Datta returns
to Kings Place in June as part of Songlines
Encounters Festival to explore the seasons and time-cycles of
North Indian music. Songlines
magazine Editor-in-Chief Simon Broughton interviews Soumik about the seasons
and time-cycles of North Indian music, ahead of his upcoming performance
on Sun Jun 3.
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This concert will feature an
extraordinary trio of top musicians from Mali, Madagascar, and
Morocco: Ballaké Sissoko on kora,
Rajery on the Malagasy valiha
and Driss El Maloumi on oud.
They have melded their music into one of the most convincing
musical tapestries on the planet. They will be performing music
from their new album, Anarouz.
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Finnish folk supergroup Frigg have
been wowing audiences around the world for 15 years. Named after
the Nordic goddess who gives her name to Friday, who better to
headline our Finnish Friday? ?Friggin'
marvellous,' said the Songlines review of their recent
album, Frost on
Fiddles, and this will be their first concert at a
major London venue.
#FinnishFriday
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Named after the Finnish goddess of
the wind, the four young women of Tuuletar describe themselves as ?vocal folk hop,'
thrillingly combining ancient Kalevala poetry with contemporary
beatboxing and gorgeous harmonies.
#FinnishFriday
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iyatraQuartet
& the Saleh Brothers
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The name iyatra comes from the Hindi word
for pilgrimage and the group create a sense of journey in every
performance. For this special show, they will be joined by brothers
Basel Saleh on oud
and Mohammad Saleh on qanun,
who are from the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians. The concert will be
preceded by a film and discussion.
#SyrianSaturday
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Born in Damascus, Youssef is a
virtuoso on the qanun,
the magnificent Arabic zither. She released her Top of the World
debut Syrian
Dreams in November. With her trio, she performs music
lamenting the war in her homeland and celebrating its rich cultural
heritage.
#SyrianSaturday
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Indian Time Unwrapped
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Sunday June 3
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As part of Kings Place's year-long Time Unwrapped
series, these Songlines
Encounters
concerts explore the concept of time in Indian music.
#IndianSunday
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North India: Soumik Datta
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Ragas for different times of the day, from morning until
night, as well as different time-cycles or talas. Soumik Datta on sarod, Roopa Panesar
on sitar
and Shahbaz Hussain on tabla.
As June is monsoon time, there's also a piece in the stormy ?Raga
Malhar'.
#IndianSunday
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South India: Srikanth & Ligeti Quartet
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Violinist Jyotsna Srikanth performs South
Indian composers from the 15th to the 20th century with South
Indian percussionists. The second half features the UK premiere of her
own Raga Seasons
violin concerto depicting the six seasons of the Hindu calendar.
#IndianSunday
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Anda Union are a magnificent band
with astonishing overtone singing and horse-head fiddle playing
from Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia. A Songlines
favourite, their recent album, Homeland,
won them a Songlines
Music Award in 2017. This show is preceded by their
feature length film From
the Steppes to the City.
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