With the year coming to a close and a general feeling of nostalgia permeating conversations, it seems only right to bid farewell with a feel-good concert. A qawwali and khayal concert organised by Kala Ghoda-based gallery ARTISANS’, will feature a musical performance by Hindustani classical and sufi singer Vivek Anand with Anutosh Degharia and Shrinivas Acharya on tabla and harmonium as part of the textile exhibition on Kashmiri and Persian weaves.

Radhi Parekh, the founder of the gallery, tells us, “The concert is a part of our exhibition, Cocoon, which seeks to bring together a fine selection of pashmina shawls and antique Persian rugs by Kashmiri entrepreneur Akeel Hussain Mir and his wife, Charlotte Kaufman. Their collection features a variety of pashmina shawls and stoles in wool sourced from the highlands of Ladakh in an extremely light, hand spun weave. And since this particular material and weave has a long association with Kashmir and Central Asia, we wanted to do something that relates to the culture and spirit of that region as well.”