Launch Event
Celebrating Sikh Music
Celebrating SIkh Music
University of Warwick, Saturday 16th March 2024, 9:30-17:00
For more than a decade, Dr. Harjinder Singh Lallie has researched the oldest known recorded Sikh music. By analyzing available records, and discographies, Dr. Lallie identified and retrieved the recordings of Sikh voices dating back to 1903.
Join us for the day at Warwick University on 16th March 2024 to celebrate this amazing journey as Gurmat Sangeet Academy & Kirtan Fi reveal to the world, digitally Remastered Gramophone recordings from our ancestry. These recordings are guaranteed to bring goosebumps to the listener as we delve ear-first into the early 1900s!
This groundbreaking event will share this research, and enable attendees to hear some of these recordings for the first time in more than 120 years.
Event Schedule
| 9:30 | Arrival and Refreshments | |
| 10:00 | Welcome | Dr Harjinder Singh Lallie |
| 10:15 | Jori Solo | Jasandeep Singh, Narayan Lallie (Jori), Jaspreet Singh (Rabab) |
| 10:40 | SAA UK | Keranjeet Virdee |
| 11:25 | Refreshments | |
| 11:40 | Introducing The Sitar | Roopa Panesar |
| 12:25 | The 1903 Sikh Gramophone Collection (1) | Dr Harjinder Singh Lallie |
| 13:05 | Lunch | |
| 13:50 | Tabla Solo | Narinderjit Singh Lallie (Tabla), Harjinder Singh Lallie (Sarangi) |
| 14:15 | The 1903 Sikh Gramophone Collection (2) | Dr Harjinder Singh Lallie |
| 14:55 | Kirtan Fi and the Sikh Gramophone Collection, | Charandeep Singh |
| 15:05 | Refreshments | |
| 15:20 | The Namdhari kirtan Tradition | Namdhari Jatha UK |
| 16:05 | An Insight into GSA | Harminder Singh Dhinsay and GSA students |
| 16:50 | Closing Words | Harminder Singh Dhinsay |
| 17:00 | Depart |
