Indian violinist Jyotsna Srikanth’s first experience of violin music, at a concert in Bangalore when she was five, was life-changing.
So taken was she by the instrument that when she got home she ran to the kitchen cupboard, dragged out two brooms and started scraping them together to try and recreate the sound she’d just heard.
“My mother thought I’d gone mad,” she says. “But I was desperate to hear that sound again,” she recalls.
Jyotsna, who is also a trained pathologist, cites Stephane Grappelli as one of her main influences. She’s performed at Wembley but she’s looking forward to playing at Watts in Cupar tonight with her group Bangalore Dreams, joined by Varun Pradeep on keyboards and Gopi Shravan on drums. They promise the audience a unique mix of her Carnatic techniques (a type of music from southern India) and expression with jazz, rock and beatboxing grooves.
