In collaboration with Bristol Baithak's, presenting ragas in a concert series throughout 2026, Brandon Park House welcomes you to this intimate recital in a rare, one-off chance to hear dedicated musicians in traditional Hindustani style.

Doors 7pm
Performance 7.30pm - in 2 sittings with refreshments available in the interval.

Dr Pete Yelding - Sitar
Sadakat Aman Khan - Harmonium
Himanish Goswami - Tabla

Dr Pete Yelding comes from a lineage of travelling performers of Romani origin, but is dedicated to playing raga-based music and using ragas as a framework for creative projects and interdisciplinary collaborations.

He encountered the sitar and Hindustani music at college and felt a deep affinity with the tradition. After over a decade of preparatory study in the UK, he travelled to Kolkata, where he became a student of sarod master, Ustad Irfan Muhammad Khan — the last hereditary proprietor of the oldest lineage of sarod and sitar players, the Lucknow-Shahjahanpur Gharana. 

Pete is now one of only a handful of musicians in the world dedicated to sharing this unique, expansive repertoire. He brings a raw but tender evocation of whichever raga he is presenting, seeking to refresh the deeply stirring, heavier sound of past sitar and sarod luminaries. Pete’s playing will entice audiences drawn to visceral melodic atmospheres and hypnotic, rhythmic textures.

In 2019 he received Arts Council funding to develop his practice in Kolkata. This led to a PhD which he recently completed: the body as musical archive: sustaining the embodied knowledge of the Lucknow-Shahjahanpur Gharana through translations between sarod, sitar, and cello.

His wider academic work revolves around entangled musical histories, embodied musical knowledge, and finding ways to move beyond the continuing Eurocentrism, racism and capitalism present in music studies and music institutions. He has led a number of presentations, workshops and lectures on his practice, musical traditions that relate to his practice, and reconfiguring musical spaces.

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Photo credit: Nic Kane

Sadakat Aman Khan is an Indian classical musician and harmonium player based in London. This will be his Bristol debut. He performs Hindustani classical music and fusion on solo harmonium and is popularly known as "Mr. Harmonium", also the founder of Harmonium Metal.

Born in Malda, West Bengal, into a family of Hindustani classical musicians, Sadakat received his early musical training from his father and grandfather, Sangeetacharya Ustad Md. Yunus Khan, who was a noted vocalist in India.

Khan began performing publicly in 2010 and has since given harmonium recitals in India and around the world. In 2020, he made his international debut with a solo concert at Nanhua University, Taiwan, and moved to the UK soon after. He remains active as a performer of Hundustani classical and fusion music, passionate about keeping the harmonium alive in our modern times, as a solo instrument.

https://sadakatamankhan.com 

Himanish Goswami is a sought-after versatile tabla player based in the UK. Equally at home in Indian classical music, jazz, fusion and cross-cultural collaborations, he is known for his exceptional musical sensitivity, creativity and ability to create a unique sound that enhances every performance.

He has collaborated with renowned bands such as Kula Shaker and Lokkhi Terra and has featured on BBC One and BBC Radio Asian Network. Himanish has performed at prestigious venues including The Barbican, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and Uttam Manch (Kolkata), and regularly performs throughout the UK, Europe, India and the USA.

Himanish is currently the Lead Tabla Teacher at Newham Music (East London) and Noborag Music, an organisation dedicated to promoting Indian music and culture in the UK.

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