Tommy Khosla & Stuart Ironside

Stuart Ironside and Tommy Khosla bring an intimate concert of improvisations and dialogue between guitar and sitar.

Gentle, meditative and intimate, they will trade melodies, grooves and stories across the evening.

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Sitarist, composer, and JAWARI founder Tommy Khosla navigates a dynamic range of musical styles. With his debut solo album, Vignettes, Khosla gained significant recognition, earning features in Songlines Magazine and BBC Asian Network. His work as the founder of interdisciplinary collective JAWARI has also garnered attention, with the band's LP ROAD RASA receiving airplay on BBC 6 Music. Currently studying under Anoushka Shankar and Ricky Romain, Khosla's work continues to push the boundaries of the sitar, reshaping its narrative in contemporary music.

Stuart Ironside is a British guitarist currently based in Estonia. Through his studies of classical music, British folk song, West African Mande music and Javanese gamelan, Stuart has been exploring his connection to each of these musics and combining them with . His recent projects Stuart released his second album, ‘Music from Somewhere Else’, was recorded live in the forests of Northern Estonia. A two part album of arrangements, compositions and improvisations, it is a duet between Stuart and the natural world. Part 1, "The Enclosure", was awarded 4 stars in Songlines magazine.