In July 2016, Georgie Pope, Director of the Global Music Academy, organised a UK tour for eleven performers from Assam, Northeast India. The tour consisted of ten monastic dancers from the Island of Majuli, one professional musician from Assam, one French impresario,...
Before forming the Global Music Academy, Georgie Pope ran musical travel company Sound Travels. She would take groups of travellers to see and hear India’s rich music scene, in Rajasthan, West Bengal, Assam and beyond. You can read more about these tours on the...
The Doyel Pakhir Ganer Katha or ‘Robin-Magpie’s Songbook’ is an album of music featuring songs from the Bangladeshi War of Independence of 1971. It features the voices of Sahana Bajpaie, Samantak Sinha and Sohini Alam as well as lush instrumentation...