Ustad Noor Bakhsh **ADDITIONAL DATE DUE TO DEMAND!**

ADDITIONAL DATE ADDED DUE TO DEMAND!

Thursday nights show sold out in a flash ⚡️ and we hear ya loud and clear! We've added another date so more of you get the opportunity to see Ustad Noor Bakhsh at The Rose Hill.

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WE ARE SO PUMPED to welcome back the incredible and unique maestro Ustad Noor Bakhsh to Brighton!This is a super rare opportunity to witness this world renowned virtuoso player of the electric Balochi ‘Benju’ in the intimate setting of The Rose Hill. We hosted Ustad at The Con Club, Lewes last summer - naturally it sold out super quick and this will be no different. Noor Bakhsh is well known as a legendary instrumentalist throughout the Makran Coast, but only garnered wider attention after his most recent recordings and videos. The Benju, was once a Japanese children’s toy called the taishōkoto before it was adopted by Balochi musicians and made into the refined folk instrument that it is today. Noor Bakhsh plays an electric Benju, getting his sound through an old pickup and small Phillips amp he bought from Karachi 2 decades ago. He carries forward the legacy of his teachers and inspirations such as Bilawal Belgium and Misri Khan Jamali but his own music elicits influences from various traditions and musical forms far beyond Balochistan. His virtuosic playing is deeply rooted in Balochi musical forms and enriched by his knowledge of South Asian Raags, which he also renders in his own, experimental style.

“Bakhsh’s trills and cascading improvisations are guided by the unending pursuit of beauty, the simultaneous embrace of sorrow and transcendence (…) It’s the kind of music that leaves you grasping for the spiritual and indefinable, that burrows into your soul and glows there!!”

— Pitchfork

After his first ever UK gig in March 2024, his sell out show at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank) London ended up as a riotous dance party with EVERYONE out of their seats and moving to the stunning music. It was no surprise when this happened at Lewes Con Club last summer and it’ll be no surprise when it happens AGAIN - this time at The Rose Hill this August.

“ He is a master of his instrument, which at times takes your consciousness off to distant faraway places, and as high in the sky as the birdsong he is inspired by.”

— Sonny Tyler, BrightonAndHoveNews.Org