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World on 3: Live from the Edinburgh Festivals with Lopa Kothari

Live from the Edinburgh Festivals with Lopa Kothari

04/08/2017

BBC Radio 3 - World on 3, Live from the Edinburgh Festivals with Lopa Kothari

Lopa Kothari is live at the BBC Blue Tent in Edinburgh.

Lopa Kothari live in concert at the Edinburgh Festivals with band Trip, Turkish musician Oguz Kaplangi with bagpiper Annie Grace, South Korean Ensemble Su and also Ryan Young.

Lopa Kothari live at the BBC Blue Tent in Edinburgh, part of Radio 3's coverage at the Festival and Fringe, with a concert of World Music including Trip, an exciting new Scottish band featuring keyboard, whistle and bodhran - a BBC Introducing act; plus Turkish composer and performer Oguz Kaplangi bringing traditional percussion instruments, guitars and electronic samples, and mixing them with Scottish bagpipes, performed by Annie Grace: it's material inspired from the incidental music to the play 'Rhinoceros', shown at the EIF; also, South Korean Ensemble Su performing on traditional instruments, among them a zither, a one-string fiddle and Asian percussion, blending it all with a cello and keyboards for a pinch of Western sound as well. And closing the show, leading the 'New Wave' of traditional Scottish fiddlers, virtuoso Ryan Young accompanied on the guitar by Jenn Butterworth.

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