More than just a musical scale, a raga in North Indian Classical music (aka Hindustani music) is a distinct melodic world, which creates a particular mood or atmosphere and that complements a specific time of day or season. 

Come and enjoy being immersed in a selection of evening ragas presented by cellist and sitarist, Pete Yelding, accompanied by the internationally acclaimed and highly sought-after tabla player, Ustad Shahbaz Hussain. 

Pete Yelding, who is at least the seventh generation of a family of traveling performers, began his journey into Hindustani music on sitar when he was 18, during his first year of study of composition and cello at Birmingham Conservatoire. Alongside his other creative projects, Pete studied and practiced the basics of the art form for 12 years before getting Arts Council funding to study with a master musician in 2019. This is when he became the student of the sarod maestro, Ustad Irfan Muhammad Khan, khalifa (chief) of the Lucknow Shahjahanpur Gharana — a lineage of musicians responsible for the invention of the first modern sarod and the earliest performances of Hindustani music in Europe. 

Tickets: £5-10