A blind sitar master will take a trip down memory lane when returns to Falmouth, having last played in the town 20 years ago.

Baluji Shrivastav will be performing an evening of Indian classical music featuring sitar and dilruba, along with tabla player Sanju Sahai, who also accompanied him on his last visit.

Sanju lived and worked with his famous father Pundit Sharda Sahai at Dartington College, which had links with the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, and has now merged with Falmouth College of Art.

Launching his album The Best of Baluji Shrivastav, the sitar master, who was recently awarded an OBE, will perform a special evening of mesmerising Indian classical music on Friday, May 12, at The Poly.

One of the greatest instrumentalists to come from India, Baluji Shrivastav is a blind musician who excels in playing the sitar, dilruba and tabla among other traditional Indian instruments. Described by the Evening Standard as “sitarist to the stars”, his incredible versatility has led him to work with acts like Massive Attack, Stevie Wonder and Coldplay and of course many of India’s finest artists including Ustad Faiyaz Khan, Anindo Chatterji and Akram Khan.

Baluji has released eight albums through ARC Music including Classical Indian Sitar and Surbahar Ragas, Shadow of the Lotus and Re-Orient - Indian World Music Fusion. His new album, The Best of Baluji Shrivastav, will also include a number of tracks from his project The Inner Vision Orchestra, the UK’s only orchestra of blind and visually impaired musicians.

Awarded the OBE in 2016 for services to music, he founded the Baluji Music Foundation to encourage disabled people to get involved in music, music being such an important part of how he communicates with the world.

Adult tickets cost £11, available from thepoly.org