Dildar Hussain & Shahbaz Hussain | The classical and qawwali tabla of Punjab | A teen taal duet

For quite sometime QalandarArts & Ustad Shahbaz Hussain have been wanting to put this specific occasion together and we finally managed to. Ustad Shahbaz Hussain is not just the UK's, but one of the worlds leading Punjab gharana classical tabla practitioners. Ustad Dildar Hussain needs very little introduction. He was the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's tabla maestro for over 30 years and he personifies Qawwali tabla. Open the dictionary, and it's simply a picture of him!

Ustad Shahbaz wanted to honour Ustad Dildar with this arrangement; a conversation between two traditions of the tabla that both originate from Punjab but which have their nuanced differences. They were supported on harmonium by Londoner Kash Pal who in fact represents the next generation of Qawwali tabla players.

Such a coming together like this is very rare and the small and intimate crowd that attended felt very privileged to have been up close and personal like this.

Date: June 5th
Location: Tileyard Gallery London
Filmed by: QalandarArts
Edited by: QalandarArts
Sound: Naiem Khan