Workshop & short performance

Sunday 31st October , 2-5pm
Buddha Fields, 25 Blackfriars Street, (off Royal Mile), Edinburgh
£7 / £5, children £3

All welcome
If you are a player, please bring along your instrument

A classical player of the highest order, Ameen Ali Khan, belongs to the seventh generation of great musicians, his grandfather Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan is one of the most renowned musicians of the century. Ameen is the son of the celebrated Sarod artist Ustad Rehmat Ali Khan and nephew of Sarod Maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.

[THE SAROD traces its origin back to the folk instrument of ancient Afghanistan, and Persia, the 'Rabab'. It is a short-necked, unfretted, waisted lute carved from a block of teak. Its broad, triangular fingerboard is superimposed with a thin sheet of metal and carries eight main strings - four melody strings, two drone strings and two chikari strings (raised drone strings plucked frequently to punctuate melodic phrases and provide rhythmic variety) and between eleven to fifteen sympathetic strings that are tuned to the scale of the Raga in use. The strings are plucked with a triangular plectrum.]

Ameen will also be performing in concert on Saturday 30th October, 7.30pm at The Practice Place (formerly The Yoga Centre), The Meadows, Edinburgh - presented by Tabla Alba

Funded by The City of Edinburgh Council and The Scottish Arts Council.