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In kaleidoscopic colour is how Jyotsna Srikanth's music is described as illuminating the South Indian Carnatic tradition. Hers is scintillating violin, accompanied by Ghatam Prakash on mrindangam. Her elastic expressivity revels in raga rotations as much as jamming in jazz, often marrying the two. Her album "Call of Bangalore" anchored her position as a 'major instrumentalist of vision and imagination' (fRoots) and 'an extraordinary and versatile violinist' (The Guardian).

Jyotsna Srikanth's website

Singer songwriters Adam Beattie, with his "A Song of One Hundred Years", and Silvia Balducci, with her passion for songs about the working conditions and human rights of the poorest, are both invited for this Ada Salter birthday concert, part of the Salter Centenary. One hundred years since Ada Salter became Mayor of Bermondsey, as we navigate amidst a climate emergency, a housing crisis and a global pandemic, her passions for environment, housing and public health will be celebrated by these two masterful and highly original musicians who draw on both Scottish and Chilean roots, in a special double bill.

Adam Beattie's website

Silvia Balducci on YouTube

Salter Centenary website

Progenitor of the amazing Cameroonian 'Sawablues', Muntu Valdo's music is rooted in African traditions, mixing a striking modernity with technical mastery in a dextrous one-man show. Blessed by the legendary "miengu" (mermaids) who are known to protect the Sawa people who worship them, his mesmerising bluesy guitar, voice and harmonica music is imbued with the oceans, mangroves, waterfalls and rivers that dominate the coastal region whence he comes.

Muntu Valdo's website

Mint Street Music Festival website