SOULFUL Sitar is the title of a performance at the Kala Sangam Arts Centre in Bradford on Saturday.

The 7pm presentation is described as an original and captivating sitar and tabla performance by Azeem Ahmed Alvi from India and Shahbaz Khan from the UK.

A spokesman said: “Soulful Sitar is the coming together of Indian tradition and modern freedom of expression, in the form of music.”

Azeem Ahmed Alvi is the sixth generation of a family of classical Indian music, and is a student of the great sitarist Padma Shri Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan.

He will be accompanied on the tabla by Shahbaz Hussain, who is regarded as the leading table virtuoso of his generation and has mastered all the traditional skills, as well as the ability to project those skills to more contemporary styles.

Shahbaz Hussain has received numerous accolades for his captivating performances, including the prestigious Son of Lahore award from the Government of Pakistan in 2008.

The Sitar Project, created in 2012, was born out of a passionate desire to take Indian classical and folk music to the international platform with an audience that spans across the young and the old; the elite and the liberal; the traditional and the modern.

Visit kalasangam.org or call 01274 303340 to book tickets.