Utsav Lal and Sam Comerford: An Indo-Irish jugalbandi

The Irish love their folk and traditional music and today evening Mumbai audiences will get a taste of that at the Ragas to Reels concert.

Organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Irish Embassy in India, the night will feature a classical collaboration between pianist Utsav Lal and Sam Comerford, who plays the Irish flute and saxophone.

“We have picked tunes that bring out the best of both cultures - great Indian melodies, fast climatic sections that are characteristic of Irish music along with great tabla accompaniment by Durjay Bhaumik,” says Lal.

The musicians have previously collaborated on a much smaller scale on a similar project in 2011. Indian and Irish music, they reveal, complement each other. “People are are taken aback as the music is so organic and there aren’t any jarring differences in spite of it being fusion music,” says Comerford.