Baluji Music Foundation celebrates 15th anniversary UK tour – Music News

The Baluji Music Foundation balujimusicfoundation.org is celebrating 15 years of changing lives through music with this extensive UK anniversary tour. Each unique event will feature different performers including Baluji Shrivastav OBE and the Inner Vision Orchestra of professional blind musicians and others, thrilling audiences across the UK with their inspirational performances.

The Baluji Music Foundation was founded by blind Indian multi-instrumentalist and composer Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Linda Shanson in 2008 and is an arts charity programming and promoting events featuring blind and partially sighted musicians and advancing access to musical and artistic experiences for blind and partially sighted people. Its showcase project is the Inner Vision Orchestra of professional blind musicians which performs nationally and internationally and has released music on Arc/Naxos.

Tour 2023

JUNE
Kala Sangham, Bradford. 3rd June 7.30pm Tickets

Customs House, South Shields 25th June 7.30pm Tickets

Cambridge Junction – 30th June 8pm Tickets

JULY
Waterloo Festival London, St John’s Church Waterloo. 14th July Inner Vision Orchestra concert and 16th July Indian dance workshop with music by members of the Inner Vision Orchestra Tickets

Southampton Mela, Hoglands Park Southampton. 15th July. Inner Vision Orchestra Quintet Tickets

AUGUST
Holy Sepulchre Church London – Summer Music Festival – Contemporary Opera Week. 2nd August, 6.30pm ‘Ragaria’ Tickets

Holy Sepulchre Church London – Summer Music Festival. 9th August, 2pm, ‘Strings of Spirit’ – Abi Baker (violin), Takashi Kikuchi (viola) Tickets

Holy Sepulchre Church London – Summer Music Festival. 16th August, 2pm, Classical Indian Concert with Baluji Shrivastav OBE on sitar and Yousuf Ali Khan on tablas Tickets

IBSA World Games Birmingham 2023 Opening Ceremony, Birmingham Symphony Hall, 18th August 2023, 6pm. Inner Vision Orchestra Tickets
The 2023 World Games is the largest high-level international event for athletes with visual impairment, with more than 1250 competitors from 70 nations.

SEPTEMBER
GEM Arts, Riverside Ragas, Gateshead. 15th September
Indian Classical Music concert featuring Baluji Shrivastav OBE accompanied by Shabhaz Hussain, one of Europe’s finest tabla players

OCTOBER
Nehru Centre, London. 20th October, 6.30pm

The Baluji Music Foundation is conducting research into encouraging more inclusion for blind and visually impaired people in the UK music industry in collaboration with BRAVO VICTOR and University of London IoE, funded by Vision Foundation. The results will be published later in 2023. Members of the Inner Vision Orchestra are also performing in London as part of the Baluji Music Foundation’s partnership with Live Music Now, to find out more click here.