KalaSudha in Limerick
The Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick listed a lunchtime concert of North Indian sarod and tabla for 24 September 2026. Register for KalaSudha's Limerick plans.
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About KalaSudha in Limerick
The University of Limerick's Irish World Academy scheduled Indian classical music in Limerick for Thursday 24 September 2026: a Sionna lunchtime concert in Theatre 1. The listing made admission free and open to all. The programme paired the sarod, a fretless plucked lute of north India, with the tabla. Its listing noted that the sarod player also works in Irish traditional and contemporary folk music, and that the tabla player has long combined the drums with other percussion.
KalaSudha hopes to bring top-class Indian classical musicians to Limerick for concerts and workshops. Our Limerick announcements will say who is playing and which tradition the programme follows, Hindustani from the north or Carnatic from the south. A listener who knows Irish traditional music is as welcome as one who knows neither.
Students and players can study the sarod or the tabla online with a live teacher at the KalaSudha academy. Each course follows levels an instructor has set out with us, and top educationists vet it. A workshop in Limerick depends on local interest and suitable arrangements, and for now nothing is fixed. Press Register for updates to hear more.
Why Limerick
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Where the sarod comes from
The sarod's immediate ancestor is the Afghan rabab, carried into north India by Pashtun musicians. Museums class it as a necked bowl lute, with a goatskin belly stretched over a wooden bowl.
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Music at lunchtime
The Sionna concert was listed for 1pm, a lunchtime hour on a university campus. KalaSudha listings will give the time as well as the venue, so you can plan around work or study.
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What a sarod is made of
Most sarods have a teak body, and some are made of mulberry. The player strikes the strings with the java, a triangular plectrum most often cut from coconut shell.