Baul & Vaishnav Music Festival

Hosted by RadhaRaman Society, this free entry festival of two powerful genres of world music is returning to different venues around London for the sixth year.

Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, the festival offers a series of ecstatic performances of Bengali Baul & Vaishnav music by number of Baul and Vaishnav music and dance, recitation from the ancient texts by leading spoken-word artists, brief discussion on these two major philosophical movements of Indian sub-continent that evolved from Hindu and Muslim (Sufi) faith and had hugely influenced the music, literature, and art of the whole region.

Saudha Society of Poetry and Indian Music (www.saudha.org) is a leading platform for South Asian as well other global classical arts. Saudha is critically acclaimed for its series of experimental productions merging poetry, music and painting seamlessly so that each can complement each other. Saudha attracted a diverse source of audiences from all different heritages through its series of presentations of mingling and bridging different arts from different corners of the world as the way of interpreting each other.

Saudha’s production Songs of Sringar and Seduction & Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music at the Royal Albert Hall has been highly praised by prominent ethno-musicologists, music and literature connoisseurs of the city and beyond.

Saudha’s lyrics of Love at the SouthBank Centre and at Edinburgh Fringe and Chayanaut through Sebastian Bach at the House of Commons, Taste of Twilight at ICCR, Kolkata and the Welsh Parliament were critically acclaimed by major media and musicologists.

During Covid, Saudha took the first ever and historic initiative to connect leading musicians of the globe, writers, poets, painters and filmmakers from all across the world through virtual platforms and the sessions were hugely appreciated by the audiences from all around the globe.

RadhaRaman Society, a sister organisation of Saudha is mainly known for organising a festival of Bengali folk music and dance called RadhaRaman Festival in the North of England (Leeds) since 2010. This also has been hosting Baul and Vaishnav Music festival in London since 2014.

RadhaRaman Society is acclaimed critically and widely for its unique presentations of Bengali Village Operas (Bengali Opera / Jatra Pala) all around the country.