Workshops at the London International Arts Festival 2014 conducted at the Rich Mix, London 1. Indian roots within World music by Praveen D Rao, India  2. Live loops, Matthias Jakisic, Austria  3. Afrobeat by Poción de Fe, Scotland

London International Arts Festival(LIAF) hosted by Dhruv Arts, UK is a Diversity Arts Festival with focus on south Indian classical Carnatic music. Curated by violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, the festival features both established and up-and-coming bands for performance slots during the event, offering live music and workshops to diverse audience from the world. The festival celebrates diversity in music and features local, regional, national and international performers in genres including World, Jazz, Classical, Folk and Contemporary The festival gives a special focus on South Indian Carnatic classical music. This promo features clippings from the 2014 festival. 2015 festival dates are from Nov 4th to 8th at the London Jazz Cafe, Rich Mix, Oslo, St Ethelburga's and Redbridge Town Hall. www.liaf.co.uk www.facebook.com/DhruvaLIAF www.twitter.com/DhruvLiaf

Watch Jyotsna Srikanth and Sunday Driver perform and the festival directors Srikanth Sharma/ Jyotsna Srikanth & Susheela Raman speak to Ashanti Omkar at the press conference of London International Arts Festival at the Jazz Cafe, London on October 2014.

Lead by trumpeter Shanti Jayasinha, three well know musicians who between them have played and recorded with an amazing array of stars. For LIAF Shanti has written material exploring the links between South Indian, Cuban, African music and jazz.

Indian Ocean are an Indian rock band formed in New Delhi in 1990, who are considered to be the pioneers of the fusion rock genre in India. The musical style of the band can be at best classified as fusion music. Some music critics describe the band's music as "Indo-rock fusion with jazz-spiced rhythms that integrates shlokas, sufism, environmentalism, mythology and revolution."

Mosaic is a band who fuse early, traditional Polish music with the Orient and World Music. The ensemble plays the historical and traditional instruments from different countries where the listener will encounter Slavic wildness and melancholy, oriental mystery, sounds of nature, urban chaos as well as sounds of ancient world order and contemporary eclecticism. Award Winners of Festivals such as the New Tradition Polish Radio Festival of Folk Music and Folk St. Nicholas' Day Festival, Mosaic has performed at prestigious festivals of ethno music, namely at Cross Culture Festival and Ethnoport Music Festival. The band released two records to critical acclaim with their debut album, Ludovava. Mosaic's collaboration with Polish Radio resulted in their second release ...'a my do Betlejem' (...And We Go to Bethlehem) and a recording of their concert, which took place in W. Lutosławski Polish Radio Studio in Warsaw. Line up: Jolanta Kossakowska -- medieval fiddles, gęśle, vocal, recorders, percussion instruments, vocal Wojciech Lubertowicz -- percussion instruments Mateusz Szemraj -- al oud, tar, saz, Polish dulcimer Sebastian Wielądek -- hurdy gurdy, ney, duduk, bagpipe

Peny Papakonstantinou presents Greek folk at the London International Arts Festival 2013 produced by Dhruv Arts. A unique music show with Greek flavor, where different timbres mix together. Traditional greek songs and rebetika presented with completely fresh point of view, where the electric sound coexists with traditional forms. Peny was born and raised in Athens. From an early age she started taking classical guitar music theory lessons whilst attending classical song and mandolin lessons. Her first contact with Greek traditional music came at the age of 19 through K.A.L.M.E (Centre for Aegean Folklore and Musicological Research) where she was a member of the Aegean choir under the artistic direction of Theofanis Soulakelis. She collaborated with leading musicians of Greek traditional music in different music productions where she met her teachers, Irini Derebei (traditional song) and Karolos Kouklakis (Constantinople lute). She had the great opportunity to participate in the project "Medimuses" organized by the cultural organization "En Hordais" where she attended singing lessons with the great performer from Turkey, Melihat Gulses.She has been a member of the music groups "Alos Apoixoi", "Santourovioli Express" under the direction of the violinist Kyriakos Gouventas and "Semeli Orchestra" under the direction of Andreas Tsekouras. Today she is member of "Smyrna orchestra" where as a musician she is playing Constantinople Lute and flute. She has collaborated with artists of Greek and world music such as Marta Sebestyen,Nikos Xydakis,Manos Pyrovolakis,Manos Achalinotopoulos, Lizeta Kalimeri, Maria Soultatou, Kaiti Koullia, Zacharias Karounis and Kostas Mantzios. She has also participated as a performer at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 with Domna Samiou. In 2011, along with folk music she has released her first solo album titled "Feggari stin taratsa" by "Polytropon" record company. In May 2012, she wrote the music and performed the soundtrack titled "Ap' to telos stin arxi" , for the short film "Dissolve", directed by Lampros Georgopoulos. Her second album titled "O notias ton ligon" produced by her was released in November 2012.

Shobana performs at the London International Arts Festival 2013 produced by Dhruv Arts. She is accompanied by Srividya Ramachandran (nattuvangam) Revathy Kumar (vocal) Jyotsna Srikanth (violin) Ramakrishna N (mridangam) Sithamparanathan (special effects)

London International Arts Festival(LIAF) hosted by Dhruv Arts, UK is a Diversity Arts Festival with focus on south Indian classical Carnatic music. Curated by violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, the festival features both established and up-and-coming bands for performance slots during the event, offering live music and workshops to diverse audience from the world. The festival celebrates diversity in music and features local, regional, national and international performers in genres including World, Jazz, Classical, Folk and Contemporary The festival gives a special focus on South Indian Carnatic classical music. This promo features clippings from the 2013 festival. 2014 festival dates are on Oct 18th, 26th, 29th & Nov 3rd, 9th, 2014 at London Jazz Cafe, Rich Mix, Kenneth More Theatre & Brunel Museum. www.liaf.co.uk www.facebook.com/DhruvaLIAF www.twitter.com/DhruvLiaf