Ravi Shankar Plays Final UK Concert

Ravi Shankar (88) and Anoushka Shankar (27) gave a recital entitled An Evening of Ragas at the Barbican in London in earlyJune as part of his Farewell to Europe tour. With his earlier concert scheduled for late-May cancelled because of poor health, his swansong to Britain was a poignant and moving occasion.

Anoushka Shankar opened the concert with two raga performances with Tanmoy Bose supporting on tabla and Ravichandra Kulur on fl utes. For the second half he played supported by his daughter and Tanmoy Bose. Nevertheless, he found the odd 15 minutes after the concert to chat to Jazzwise and waxed enthusiastic about his updated, revised and sumptuously produced book My Music, My Life and life in general.

Trafalgar Square Plays Host To International Widows Day

Monday 23rd June 2008 played a signifi cant day of awareness for the plight facing widows around the world, as The Loomba Trust, for which Cherie Blair is President and patrons include HRH Prince of Wales, Sir Richard Branson, Sir Mark Tully, Alastair Stewart, Yoko Ono and Joanna Lumley, staged the International Widows Day Concert in London’s Trafalgar Square. The free to attend concert brought together on stage a world class and eclectic line-up of top bands and celebrated artists from across the globe in what turned out to be one of the UK’s most dynamic summer concerts, highlighting a cause that is beginning to draw global attention

Gandhi in London: the celebrated London Walk

Date: until July 19, 2008, Central London E1

Gandhi’s London walk is a 2 to 3 Hour journey through heart of London. It takes visitors back into M.K. Gandhi’s days in London as a student, civil rights activist and then
leader of Indian freedom struggle.

Visitors will see and feel the inner London that Gandhi saw, places he lived, studied, explored and walked. This walks starts on a Saturday 3 PM till 5 PM, from outside Temple Undergorund Station in London and takes the visitors through Inner Temple, Strand, Coven Garden and towards Trafalger Square with stories about London of late 19th and early 20th century that Gandhi experienced as a young student and lawyer.

City of London Festival:

Ajoy Chakrabarty

Date: until July 6, 2008, The Barbican Hall,