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{{Infobox music festival<br />
| music_festival_name = Darbar Festival<br />
| caption = <br />
| location = London<br />
| years_active = 2005–present<br />
| founders = Sandeep Virdee<br />
| dates = September to November <br />
| genre = [[Indian classical music]]<br />
| website = {{URL|https://www.darbar.org|www.darbar.org}}<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Darbar Festival''' is an [[Indian classical music]] and [[Indian classical dance|dance]] festival that takes place annually over three months in London. It uniquely curates music from the north Indian [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani]] and south Indian [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] classical traditions as well as [[dhrupad]] and percussion.<br />
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The Darbar Festival is the flagship event of the Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust, a UK registered non-profit. The organization exists to promote greater access to Indian classical music and dance and to ensure this art form can be accessed by a global audience. It does this through its YouTube channel and social media platforms. Another element of Darbar's work is to support a new generation of aspiring artists through summer workshops for new artists, an Indian music appreciation course and Indian music classes for primary school children in Leicester.<br />
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==The festival==<br />
The festival features great masters and emerging musicians artists like [[Ustad Amjad Ali Khan]], [[Shahid Parvez]], [[Rajan and Sajan Mishra|Pandits Rajan & Sajan Mishra]], [[Shubha Mudgal]], [[Aruna Sairam]], [[Sanjay Subramanyan]], [[Niladri Kumar]], [[Rakesh Chaurasia]], [[Kaushiki Chakraborty]], [[Ronu Majumdar]], [[Pandit Jasraj]], [[Pandit Venkatesh Kumar]], [[Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar]], [[Kala Ramnath]], [[Prabha Atre]], [[Sudha Ragunathan]] and [[Roopa Panesar]].<br />
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==History==<br />
The Darbar Festival started in 2005 as a one-off tribute to the energy, dedication and enthusiasm of Bhai Gurmeet Singh Ji Virdee (1937–2005); a well loved tabla teacher from Leicester. The festival continues today and aims to reflect the values that Bhai Gurmeet Singh Virdee put into his passions - his Sikh faith, photography, music and tabla.<ref>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://www.darbar.org/<br />
|title=Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust<br />
|accessdate=2010-02-11}}</ref><br />
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Previous Darbar Festivals:<br />
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*2006 Peepul Centre, Leicester <br />
*2007 Phoenix, Leicester <br />
*2008 Phoenix, Leicester <br />
*2009 Southbank Centre, London <br />
*2010 Kings Place, London <br />
*2011 Kings Place, London<br />
*2012 Southbank centre, London<br />
*2013 Southbank centre, London<br />
*2014 Southbank centre, London<br />
*2015 Southbank centre, London<br />
*2016 Southbank centre, London<br />
*2017 Southbank Centre, Barbican Centre & Sadlers Well's<br />
*2018 Southbank Centre, Barbican Centre & Sadlers Well's<br />
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[[Category:Music festivals in London]]<br />
[[Category:Indian classical music]]</div>CleanupBot II