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World Routes: World Routes Academy: 2011

World Routes: World Routes Academy: 2011: The Music of South India: Part 3

2011: The Music of South India

Part 3 World Routes Academy

BBC Radio 3 - World Routes, World Routes Academy, 2011: The Music of South India, Part 3

Lucy Duran and musician Hari Sivanesan visit the Tamil community in London.

Hari Sivanesan and Lucy Duran visit Lewisham to find out how Tamil Sri Lankans keep the idea of home alive in London. Including Hari and sarod player Soumik Datta in concert.

World Routes Academy mentee Hari Sivanesan takes Lucy Duran on a trip around London to discover how the Tamil Sri Lankan diaspora keeps their culture and language alive in the UK. With visits to the Sivan Kovil Temple in Lewisham, one of London's vibrant Tamil Hindu temples and home to a Tamil Language School, they also take a walk down East Ham high street to try and find the best South Indian lunch in town.

World Routes Academy mentee veena player Hari Sivanesan is also joined in concert by North Indian sarod player Soumik Datta for a one-off collaboration at the Bhavan Centre, Hari's former school in West Kensington, London.

World Routes: World Routes Academy

World Routes: World Routes Academy: 2011: The Music of South India

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Interviews, documentary material, recordings and music from World Routes's Academy scheme

Series of interviews, documentary material, recordings and performances from Radio 3's World Routes Academy, a mentoring scheme that aims to support and inspire young world music artists

For World Routes Academy 2013 BBC Radio 3 has teamed up with SOAS, University of London, to combine expertise, ideas and knowledge in order to further understand how traditional music is transmitted orally across generations.


Launched in 2010 the BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy aims to support and inspire young world music artists by bringing them together with an internationally renowned artist in the same field and belonging to the same tradition. The scheme targets forms of music and musical skills that are under threat to help preserve them. 


BBC Radio 3 appointed 17 year old singer Fidan Hajiyeva as its 2013 World Routes Academy mentee and paired her up with mentor Gochaq Askarov, who is based in Azerbaijan, and is regarded as as the crown prince of Azeri classical Mugham.

The 2011 World Routes Academy mentoring scheme focuses on South India

The 2011 World Routes Academy mentoring scheme focuses on South India, following young UK veena player Hari Sivanesan and his mentor Aruna Sairam, a Carnatic vocalist based in Chennai.

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