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 Khata’ or ‘Magpie-Robin’s Songbook’ is an album featuring seven songs from the Bangladeshi War of Independence of 1971. These beautiful songs of liberation are sung anew by Aseer Arman, Boga Taleb, Sahana Bajpaie,...
