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Sat 23 May 2026, Bedfordshire


Saturday 23 May 2026, Original

Location

Strawberry Hill, Knotting Green, Bedfordshire, MK44 1AA

Time

7:00 pm - 12:30 am
(Site opens at 6:30 pm)

Host

Nadia Shaikh

Guest Musician

Baluji Shrivastav OBE (sitar)

Camping

Staying Overnight

Camping is not available

Artists
Baluji Shrivastav
Baluji Shrivastav

Baluji Shrivastav OBE is one of the world’s leading composers and sitar players. Described as ‘sitarist to the stars’ (Evening Standard), he has performed and recorded with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Massive Attack, Madness, Shakira, Malu, Boy George & Doves. Baluji is signed to Naxos World ARC with over fifteen releases of classical and world music fusion. His compositions include works for orchestra, theatre, dance, film, television and radio. Selected credits include Disney’s Million Dollar Arm, 20th Century Fox’s New Girl, NBC’s Outsourced and the world’s only Urdu opera Sohini and Mahival, which he composed with Golden Globe and Oscar Winner Dario Marianelli.

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The Nightingale
The Nightingale

The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) is a small, brown, unremarkable-looking bird, but they possess one of nature’s finest singing voices. The English population winters in Sub-Saharan Africa in the western countries like Sierra Leon and Senegal, returning to the very same thicket they were born in arriving in early to mid-April. They spend April to the end of May mating and nesting where we can encounter the extraordinary display of the males’ courtship song, famous for his all-night broadcast.

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Nadia Shaikh
Nadia Shaikh

Nadia is a naturalist and ornithologist with 16 years of experience in nature conservation. She is currently the director of the Right to Roam Campaign and is passionate about people reconnecting to nature and how access to nature is systemically unequal. She is a columnist for TGO magazine and chair of the Raven Network, a network for people of colour who work in nature and conservation.

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