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About Us Introduction The Asian Music Circuit (AMC) was created in 1989 by the Arts Council of Great Britain and has been run as an independent company regularly funded by The Arts Council of England since 1991. It is a registered charity. Since 1991, the AMC has developed as the leading promoter of Asian music in the UK. It has established a privileged reputation for the variety and high calibre of its concerts , the high quality and innovative nature of its education programme, its fascinating collection of audio-visual recordings. The AMC is one of the important companies in Europe providing access to the full range of music of Asia through promoting, producing and managing high quality tours and educational activities. This is complimented by the development of an Asian Music Centre – a resource centre to house a collection of musical instruments, digital audio-visual archives and interactive multi-media facilities both on and offline. The AMC provides a wide VARIETY of music celebrating CULTURAL IDENTITY by focussing on TRADITIONAL music of EXCELLENCE , developing a NEW GENERATION of talent , ENTERTAINING the public and aiming to inform and EDUCATE through seminars, lectures , recordings , videos and exhibitions. The AMC has been privileged to have worked with and promoted a wide variety of artists from Central Asia to Indonesia but especially from South Asia. Its promotions have included folk music such as that of the Manganiyars and Langas from Rajasthan, puppetry and gamelan from Indonesia , the Kamkars of Iran , devotional and mystic music such as the great qawwali singers Sabri brothers of Pakistan and the Nizami brothers from India, Baul singers of Bengal , the Naxi musicians of China ; the great classical traditions with vocal as well as instrumental performances such as the sitar maestro Pt. Ravi Shankar, the great khyal singers Pts Rajan and Sajan Mishra, santoor maestro Pt Shivkumar Sharma, flautist Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia – the guqin player Li Xiang Ting of China to name but a few ; Indian film and popular music including the legendary Asha Bhosle and Jagjit Singh ; contemporary music including SHAKTI with John Mclaughlin and Zakir Hussain, Sainkho Namchylak and Yat-Kha from Tuva, Fun-Da-Mental, Sitarfunk and SomaSonic from the UK , Orange Street from India and the wonderful concerts of LES DANGEREUSES – a collaboration featuring Shubha Mudgal (India), Kandya Kouyate (Mali) and Juliet Roberts (UK). The AMC regularly works with UK based artists both as concert artists and in the education field. Through its own promotions as well as partnerships the AMC has been able to help in making the wonderful music of Asia accessible to audiences all over the UK through productions in a wide variety of venues all around the country – and more recently in Europe too. The AMC has a free membership scheme with approximately 10,000 members who regularly receive information about our events and activities. Our website generates A substantial number of visitors daily and this is set to increase once our new centre goes on-line. Since 1991, the AMC's achievements have been very significant even though it has often had to work in a difficult environment .However, the AMC can take pride in the fact that it has substantially increased awareness and audiences for Asian music all over the UK and raised the standards of production through its professionalism as well as the status of artists ; above all the AMC has generated a much greater awareness and appreciation of the excellence , the great traditions and beauty of Asian music. Tours / Concerts / Education / Summer Schools / Artists / News / Shop / Asian Music Centre / Membership / Links
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