Darbar Festival Explained

Darbar Festival
Genre:	Indian classical music
Dates:	September to November
Location:	London
Years Active:	2005–present
Founders:	Sandeep Virdee
Website:	darbar.org

The Darbar Festival is an Indian classical music festival based in London that annually features Hindustani classical music and Carnatic music and featured Indian classical dance in 2017. The festival was founded in 2005 in Leicester as a tribute to tabla teacher Gurmit Singh Virdee by his son Sandeep Virdee.^[1] The Hindu described it as "probably the biggest festival of classical music outside India".^[2]

List of festivals

• 2006 Peepul Centre
• 2007 Phoenix Square
• 2008 Phoenix Square: Irshad Khan, Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Tarun Jasani, Shashwati Mandal, Bhupinder Chaggar, Kaviraj Dhadyalla^[3]
• 2009 Southbank Centre: Shashank Subramanyam, Purbayan Chatterjee, Tejendra Majumdar, Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Ganesh and Kumaresh, Aruna Sairam, Harmeet Virdee, Rupak Kulkarni, Wasifuddin Dagar, Somjit Das Gupta, Carnatic Ensemble^[4]
• 2010 Kings Place: Venkatesh Kumar, Kushal Das, Rajhesh Vaidhya, Shivkumar Sharma, Veena Sahasrabuddhe and Patricia Rozario, Jyotsna Srikanth^[5]
• 2011 Kings Place: Ulhas Kashalkar, Uday Bhawalkar, Roopa Panesar, Gurdain Rayatt, Tarang Ensemble, Madras String Quartet^[6]
• 2012 Southbank Centre: Rajendra Prasanna, Shujaat Khan, Manjiri Asanare-Kelkar, Mysore Brothers, Prattyush Banerjee, N. Ravikiran^[7]
• 2013 Southbank Centre: Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil, Debashish Bhattacharya, Sudha Ragunathan, Anupama Bhagwat, Harjinderpal Matharu, Jayanthi Kumaresh^[8]
• 2014 Southbank Centre: Niladri Kumar, Debashish Bhattacharya, Shashank Subramanyam, Prabha Atre, Jyoti Hegde, Prem Kumar Mallick^[9]
• 2015 Southbank Centre: Kaushiki Chakraborty, Ranjani–Gayatri, Ronu Majumdar, Mita Nag, Irshad Khan, Abhisek Lahiri^[10]
• 2016 Southbank Centre: Rajan and Sajan Mishra, Shubha Mudgal, Amjad Ali Khan, Aruna Sairam, Jayanthi Kumaresh, Rakesh Chaurasia, Niladri Kumar^[11]
• 2017 Sadler's Wells Theatre: Akram Khan, Patri Satish Kumar, Pravin Godkhindi, Mythili Prakash, Debasmita Bhattacharya, Dheerendra Tiwari, Indrani Mukherjee, Ram Kumar Mallick, Samit Mallick, Arshad Khan, Mavin Khoo, Sahana Banerjee, Aditi Mangaldas, Surdarshan Chana, Supreet Deshpande, Kaivalya Kumar Gurav, Nishat Khan, Seeta Patel^[12]
• 2018 Barbican Centre: Rupak Kulkarni, Meeta Pandit, Soumik Datta, Malladi Brothers, Wasifuddin Dagar, Sanju Sahai, G. J. R. Krishnan, Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, Omkar Dadarkar, Shahid Parvez, Parveen Sultana^[13]
• 2019 Barbican Centre: Parimal Chakraborty, Gurdain Rayatt, Kaushik Konwar, Kala Ramnath, Abhishek Borkar, Praashekh Borkar, Sudha Ragunathan, Gundecha Brothers, Sabir Khan, Momin Khan, Manjiri Asanare-Kelkar, J. A. Jayant, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Shivkumar Sharma
• 2021 Barbican Centre: Jyotsna Srikanth, Ken Zuckerman, Roopa Panesar, Sukhvinder Singh, Waseem Khan, Kushal Das, Kaushiki Chakraborty
• 2022 Barbican Centre: Ramana Balachandran, Sabir Khan, Sanskrati Wahane, Prakrati Wahane, Satyajit Talwalkar, Uday Bhawalkar, Eeshar Singh, Rajrupa Chowdhury, Bharathi Prathap, Purbayan Chatterjee, Rakesh Chaurasia, Shubha Mudgal
• 2023 Barbican Centre: Ayan Sengupta, Pratik Shrivastav, Tari Khan, Sarwar Hussain Khan, Jyoti Hegde, Alam Khan, Ranjani–Gayatri, Pravin Godkhindi, Shashank Subramanyam, Anupama Bhagwat, Ulhas Kashalkar

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bhai Gurmit Singh Virdee (1937-2005) . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
2. Web site: Britain's got Indian talent . Dutt . Devina . 11 February 2012 . The Hindu . 17 November 2023.
3. Web site: Darbar TV Season 1 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
4. Web site: Darbar TV Season 2 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
5. Web site: Darbar TV Season 3 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
6. Web site: Darbar TV Season 4 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
7. Web site: Darbar TV Season 5 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
8. Web site: Darbar TV Season 6 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
9. Web site: Darbar TV Season 7 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
10. Web site: Darbar TV Season 8 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
11. Web site: Darbar TV Season 9 . . darbar.org . 17 November 2023.
12. Web site: Darbar Festival 2017 . . Sadler's Wells Theatre . 17 November 2023 . 17 October 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171017211050/http://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2017/darbar-festival . bot: unknown .
13. Web site: Darbar Festival 2023 . . Barbican Centre . 17 November 2023.