Music of the Mystics: Sufi Qawwali Night with Fanna-Fi-Allah
LSO St Luke's Guest Artist
LSO St Luke's
The Programme
First Set
Hamd and Naat in praise; Qawwalis on the poetry of Amir Khusrau (Man Kunto Maula, Chhap Tilak) and Baba Farid, sung in Punjabi, Urdu, Persian and Braj.
Interval (20 minutes)
Second Set
Qawwalis of Bulleh Shah and Shah Hussain, Laggi Lagan, closing with the dhamal Mast Qalandar with the whirling dervish.
Please note that the programme listed above is indicative. In the qawwali tradition, the final running order is settled on the day, within these timings.
Concert finishes at approximately 10pm.
Performers
Fanna-Fi-Allah Sufi Qawwali, led by Tahir Qawwal
Tickets
Early Bird £35.20 (until 31 January 2027) (£32 + £3.20 booking fee)
General Admission £41.80 (£38.00 + £3.80 booking fee)
VIP £89.50 (£85 + £4.50 booking fee) (reserved front section and meet the band after the show)
Fanna-Fi-Allah bring the living tradition of Sufi qawwali to the Jerwood Hall.
Now in their 27th year of international touring, the ensemble carries the devotional music of the South Asian shrines in the classical lineage of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: eight musicians seated in the traditional way, with harmonium, tabla, dholak and a chorus of voices and handclaps that builds from a single whispered couplet to full, ecstatic cycles of rhythm.
Led by Tahir Qawwal, the group sings the poetry of Amir Khusrau, Baba Farid, Bulleh Shah and the Sufi saints in Punjabi, Urdu and Persian, without fusion or electronics, and is joined by the whirling dervish Aziz. A Hawksmoor church built for the unamplified voice is a natural home for this music. Whether this is a first encounter with qawwali or a return to it, the evening is an invitation into a shared space of listening, in two sets with an interval.
Presented by Tabaruq Arts
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