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Bishi Live! Innovative singer, producer & rock-sitar player Bishi's first performance and workshop in Plymouth

Performance 

Bishi performs tracks from her new album Let My Country Awake at Barbican Theatre, Plymouth on Friday 10 December.

The album launched with sell out shows at London's Southbank Centre following an appearance at Reflektor Festival in Hamburg.

Partly inspired by the essay collection The Good Immigrant and Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel-winning poem exploring borderless identity, the album features revolutionary use of her trademark electric sitar and four-octave vocal range.

The album, released on her own label Gryphon, also features sampled interviews from Nikesh Shukla, Salena Godden and Darren Chetty. It’s a work exploring dual identities and a call to find empathy in a divided world.

As a multi-instrumentalist, she has been trained in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles and studied the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar, a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar

LISTEN TO LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE

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Workshop Masterclass 

Held at Barbican Theatre, Plymouth on Thursday 9 December from 6pm - 8pm plus available as a Livesstream (bookable at barbicantheatre.co.uk)

Bishi’s masterclass will take you on a journey, through her life, journeys through subcultures, unique, interdisciplinary approach to music, and how to thrive as an indie artist. Bishi has been releasing her own music independently for 14 years and will explain the triumphs and challenges encountered.

She will reveal how she creates her music and technological language through her diverse cultural experience.

This masterclass  includes a full demonstration of her electric sitar and live looping of her voice.

This workshop masterclass is Pay What You Decide. 

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Bishi

Bishi is a singer, electronic rock-sitarist, composer, producer, and performer born in London of Bengali heritage.

She’s trained in both Hindustani and Western classical styles, while her live performances make heavy use of new technologies, including interactive bodysuits and live-coded audiovisual environments.

In 2016, BISHI founded WITCiH, the Women In Technology Creative Industries Hub, a platform to elevate the voices of women and non-binary practitioners in tech. In 2020 she launched the podcast Creative Women in Tech.

A passionate advocate for equality and inclusion, BISHI is an ambassador for The Featured Artists Coalition, Imogen Heap’s Creative Passport, and sits on the board of the F-List.

Pay What You Decide

We want to encourage more people to come and see shows, more often. Pay What You Decide not only allows people to pay what they can afford (including £0), rather than a fixed ticket price, but also removes the risk of buying a ticket for a show in advance without knowing whether they are going to enjoy it or not. It encourages people to take risks as well as not having money be a barrier to access to all forms of culture, creativity, performance and entertainment. Barbican Theatre have been running their Pay What You Decide model since May 2021 and have seen an increase in the number of new audiences increase by 46%. Both the Bishi performaace and workshop masterclass are Pay What You Decide.