Saturday, November 14, 2009

Exeter Respect 2009 : Pooja Angra

To quote from her official Youtube page, Dr Pooja Angra is a Hindustani classical singer with a doctorate in Indian Classical music from Delhi University. She is based in the U.K. She got her initial training from Prof Alankar Singh & Ruby Banerjee and later from Dr A.S Paital & Prof Geeta Paintal of Agra and Indore Gharna. She is an approved All India Radio & T.V artist since 1991 & 1998 respectively. In addition to concerts and live shows of Indian classical music in the U.K, she gives workshops and presentations at a number of institiutes. She works on a number of assignments for Southampton music services and Art Asia. She regularly sings for the BBC Asian Network.

It was a real pleasure to experience her performance at Exeter Respect Festival 2009. Here are some recordings I made during her set. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.


Pooja Angra (2)


Recorded on 11 July 2009

<a href="http://binauraldiaries.bandcamp.com/track/pooja-angra-1">Pooja Angra 1 by BinauralDiaries</a>

<a href="http://binauraldiaries.bandcamp.com/track/pooja-angra-2">Pooja Angra 2 by BinauralDiaries</a>

Pooja Angra

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds very good. Did you turn your head from left to right while recording it Ollie? ) Thanks, Vladimir.

Ollie Hall said...

Thanks. Yeas I think I did move my head a bit - I was checking to see if my friends were enjoying it as much as I was!