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Darbar Festival 2026

Nine days of Indian classical music, including a violin and veena duel that starts at 00:00.

FestivalFolk & world

At Barbican Centre.

Darbar is the largest festival of Indian classical music outside India, and its twenty-first edition fills the Barbican with concerts, talks, masterclasses and late-night sets across both the Hindustani tradition of the north and the Carnatic tradition of the south.

Kala Ramnath on Hindustani violin meets Jayanthi Kumaresh on Carnatic veena in a 00:00 jugalbandi, a form built on two soloists answering each other; Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar sings dhrupad, the oldest surviving form of the tradition; and the sarod brothers Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, sitarists Jasdeep Singh Degun and Ustad Irshad Khan and the vocalists Sandeep Narayan and Sunanda Sharma play across the week.

Where
Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
Nearest station
Barbican · 4 min walk

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