Raag Gorakh Kalyan | Soumik Datta & Sukhvinder Singh ‘Pinky’ | Sarod & Tabla | Music of India

#darbarfestival | Young sarod maestro Soumik Datta performs Raag Gorakh Kalyan, a spacious early night raga derived from folk tunes from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. Learn more about the music: Soumik Datta is a sarod player from the younger generation, describing himself as ‘a slave to the instrument’. He trained under the late maestro Buddhadev Das Gupta, flying to Kolkata for periods of intense study during his holidays from boarding school in the UK. Today he plays a vast range of styles - jazz, Indo-blues, drum’n’bass, and many more. But he always returns to his classical core, performing Hindustani music around the world. Sukhvinder Singh (affectionately known as ‘Pinky’) is a singular percussionist, specialising in low-tuned tabla and jori. Hailing from the Punjab, his first musical immersions were in dholak and pakhawaj, playing traditional Sikh devotional music. At age five he became a disciple of pakhawaj exponent Nihal Singh. His public debut aged 13 left a strong impression on Alla Ra