As part of the fourth edition of Bonjour India festival, Alliance Française de Bhopal in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board and the Department of Culture, Government of Madhya Pradesh, will organise on Saturday.
A famous Kora player from Mali, Chérif Soumano along with Shahnawaz Ahmed, an incredible classical guitarist from India and the young tabla player Shahbaaz Khan for its next InChorus.
The event will commence at Gauhar Mahal, at 7:00pm on Saturday, April 30th, 2022 .
InChorus is a musical platform for the promotion of promising young musicians of all genres, Indian and French, through residencies, concerts, meetings and workshops. The idea of this platform is to encourage a talented Indian musician to participate in the development of a musical project or to strengthen an already existing collaboration with a Francophone artist.
Chérif Soumano is a rising star of the Kora; he offers music of his time, while being deeply rooted with the traditional repertoire that his father transmitted to him in Mali. He has performed with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Roberto Fonseca, co-founded the World Kora Trio and recorded for Marcus Miller.
Shahnawaz Ahmed and Shahbaaz Khan : Shahnawaz Ahmed is quite an unusual classical Indian musician, playing various styles on modern guitar with unique technique and incredible ease. He will be accompanied by the young talent Shahbaaz Khan on tabla, they will present their respective traditional repertoire as well as some pieces resulting from their residency took place at the Alliance Française de Delhi.
Bonjour India is a Festival where France and India enjoy a substantive partnership at the core of which lie its people-to-people relations, nurtured for decades through collaborations and exchanges. This artistic cultural and educational initiative is an Indo-French moment put together by the French cooperation network in India mainly comprising of the Embassy of France and its cultural service, Institut Français en Inde, the Alliance Française network and the Consulates of France.