Generated by All in One SEO v4.8.9, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Bobby Singh Australia's Finest Tabla Player ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Gig at NIMA](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/gig-at-nima/) - Awaiting the Khyal Trio. Amazing music. Totally captivating fusion music. lots of love heart and soul. Playing to a packed house, people quiet and respectful of the music being created in front of them..not used to this at a NIMA gig. Usually people are talking over the music. Not tonight, they are listening! Bobby Singh - [Ustad Irfan Khan Tour](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/ustad-irfan-khan-tour/) - Authentic Hereditary Lineage of the Indian Sarod TraditionIt is rare to come across musicians such as Ustad Irfan Khan. He is the last representative of a long line of legendary musicians, direct from the royal courts of North India. His ancestors were renowned instrumentalists and played the leading role in inventing and popularising the beautifully - [Thanks Bellingen](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/thanks-bellingen/) - Thank you @5churchst Bellingen for a lovely concert such a beautiful space and great audience. We’re on our way now to Lawson and tomorrow Sydney. For more info check out our earlier Posts. - [Recording at Michael Lynch Studio](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/recording-at-michael-lynch-studio/) - We had an awesome time recording at Michael Lynch studio in beautiful Frazers Creek, before our gig tonight in Wauchope. What a great person and engineer ❤️ ## Pages - [Home](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/) - Australian Tabla PlayerBobby SinghBobby Singh is an Australia based tabla player and musical collaborator who has been sharing his art with the world for forty years. As a disciple of Aneesh Pradhan, Bobby’s grounding is in traditional India Classical music, but he now performs and collaborates with musicians across many musical genres and artforms. His - [Music](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/music/) - Music SutradhaarBobby Singh & Friends2025 KaptureSandy Evans Trio with Bobby Singh and Sarangan Sriranganathan2015 SaachiBenjamin Walsh2015 Silent SpaceBenjamin Walsh2015 Blue CityMaru Tarang2015 ImprovisationsRasa Duende2013 The Golden MeanCircle of Rhythm2012 Djan DjanMamadou Diabate, Bobby Singh & Jeff Lang2010 NirmanaBenjamin Walsh & Bobby Singh2008 As Wide As the SkyTony Gorman & Bobby Singh2007 12Next - [Guru Aneesh Pradhan](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/guru-aneesh-pradhan/) - TablaRead Aneesh Pradahan’s discussion on the Tabla and Tabla playing. Aneesh PradhanAneesh Pradhan had a liberal and encouraging familial upbringing, which was coupled with an intensive period of study under the illustrious tabla maestro Nikhil Ghosh. His training with this veritable repository of traditional compositions from the Delhi, Ajrada, Lucknow, Farukhabad and Punjab schools of - [Performances](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/performances/) - Performances Perth FestivalBobby Singh & FriendsFebruary 26, 2026FREE EVENT Woodford Folk Festival | MonBobby Singh & FriendsDecember 29, 2025 Woodford Folk Festival | SunBobby Singh & FriendsDecember 28, 2025 Newcastle | NIMAKhyal TrioOctober 28, 2025 Bellingen | 5churchstKyhal TrioOctober 24, 2025 - [Contact](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/contact/) - Contact Bobby SEND US AN EMAIL MANAGEMENT | TOP SHELF SEND YOUR ENQUIRY ENQUIRY FORMFirst name *Last name *Email address *OrganisationSubject *Your Message *Thank you for your message. It has been sent.×There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.×Submit Your Enquiry - [News](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/news/) - News Ustad Irfan Khan Tour Authentic Hereditary Lineage of the Indian Sarod Tradition [...] Gig at NIMAAwaiting the Khyal Trio. Amazing music. Totally captivating fusion music. [...] Thanks BellingenThank you @5churchst Bellingen for a lovely concert such a [...] Recording at Michael Lynch StudioWe had an awesome time recording at Michael Lynch studio [...] - [Bobby Singh](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/bobby-singh/) - Bobby SinghBorn and raised in England, Bobby spent a great deal of his childhood in Mumbai studying at Sangeet Mahabharati, an institute of music started by the great tabla maestro Pandit Nikhil Ghosh. Recognised with a great talent at a young age, Bobby became a student of Ghosh’s senior disciple Aneesh Pradhan, now one of - [Tabla](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/tabla/) - TablaBy Aneesh Pradhan Since prehistoric times, human beings recognised rhythm as an integral part of nature and human-animal activity. They experimented with rudimentary instrument making and developed the earliest percussion instruments like rattles, scrapers, stampers, clappers and slit drums. These were followed by more evolved forms of percussion instruments, which used animal skin stretched over ## Albums - [Aasha](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/aasha/) - “It’s about finding midway points, or points of where there could be good communication. Over the years, I’ve worked with different people and musical traditions and again, you find the meeting points … where a conversation can happen,” Adrian McNeilTracklist 1 Rag Madhuwanti 2 Rag Chandrakauns 3 Rag Narayani Recorded September 2001 Avalon Studio Copyright - [Blue City](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/blue-city/) - Deep in the deserts of Rajasthan, Australian artists Jeff Lang & Bobby Singh met Asin Langa & Bhungar Manganiyar. Spanning continents and genres, a remarkable collaboration commenced – Maru Tarang. A virtuosic repertoire including ancient Rajasthani songs refreshed by Australian roots; seminal blues by Robert Johnson enriched by Indian flavours; soulful expressions through deep, original - [Rouhani](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/rouhani/) - “It’s rich and incredibly vibrant, it sings but at the same time has quite a percussive sound. It sounds exotic in the sense that it takes you to a different planet. Its just a piece of wood with some strings on it, but it’s what the craftsman, Joe, does with it that matters” “He’s got - [As Wide As the Sky](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/as-wide-as-the-sky/) - Tony’s 35 year professional career as a saxophonist clarinettist, composer and producer has made him one of the most respected musicians in Australia where he emigrated from Scotland in 1988. A graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Tony’s career as a performer has encompassed contemporary jazz and improvised music, rhythm and - [Kapture](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/kapture/) - The Sandy Evans Trio collaborated with Bobby Singh and guest vocalist Sarangan Sriranganathan, to become one of Australia’s foremost Indian-jazz ensembles. This record is a tribute to South African freedom fighter, Ahmed Kathrada. Developed through collaboration with renowned choreographer/dancer Liz Lea, the music is a response to some of the extraordinary stories from Kathrada’s writings - [Improvisations](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/improvisations/) - A collaboration between internationally acclaimed musicians Bobby Singh (Tabla), Adrian McNeil (Sarod) and Damian Wright (Flamenco Guitar), Rasa Duende’s first recording “Improvisations” explores meeting points between Hindustani and Flamenco traditions through a deep understanding and engagement with both of these highly expressive music cultures. The trio explores meeting points between the melodies, rhythms and aesthetic - [Sutradhaar](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/sutradhaar/) - NotesThis album is in many ways a story of Bobby’s musical journey — a journey that he embarked on, and which is ongoing, with the tabla as his medium of expression in various musical contexts. Along this journey, he has played with some of the finest musicians in Australia, who I have had the privilege - [Bent Grooves](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/bent-grooves/) - Magical collective improvisation framed by lush melodies and anchored by hypnotic rhythms, drawing from the traditions of Turkish Sufi and folk music, Balkan Gypsy brass bands, West African grooves, Indian Classical music, flamenco, blues and jazz. Featuring (in order of height): Sandy Evans: soprano and tenor saxes; Carlos Villanueva: charango; Bobby Singh: Tabla; Kim Sanders: - [Dha](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/dha/) - [Silent Space](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/silent-space/) - Kotoor & Tabla, Music for meditation or deep relaxation released November 13, 2015 Silent Space by Benjamin Walsh - [Saachi](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/saachi/) - Music for meditation and inner peace… Following up on the Albums Silent Space and Nirmana, Saachi is another in the series of Tabla & Kotoor. An Australian Indian fusion playing non traditional world music with the sentiments likened to Indian and Japanese classical music. Dedicated to the birth of Saachi…This album is like her… pure - [Nirmana](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/nirmana/) - This is the first album to feature the Kotoor, an instrument built by Ben Walsh. Somewhere between an Indian santoor and Japanese koto this is the perfect instrument for Ben to melodically and rhythmically collaborate with musical comrade Bobby Singh who plays tabla. released September 9, 2008 Recorded, mixed and mastered at Groovelands Studio, 2008 - [Metrical](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/metrical/) - Circle of Rhythm is a truly individual rhythmic collaboration – known for defining and redefining what Australian drumming can offer the world, Greg Sheehan, Bobby Singh and Ben Walsh have formed a percussion trio with a difference, rich in culture from the various styles all three dynamic performers have spent their lives exploring. From the - [The Golden Mean](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/the-golden-mean/) - “Percussion Group” does not adequately describe this unique collaboration between three of Australia’s best loved rhythmatists. Yes, percussion instruments are played, dexterously, innovatively and with an astonishing degree of virtuosity, but what Circle of Rhythm offer is beyond the boundaries of the standard percussion group. Greg Sheehan, Ben Walsh and Bobby Singh have, as individuals, - [Djan Djan](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/album/djan-djan/) - Mamadou Diabate (kora, Mali), Bobby Singh (tabla, India) and Jeff Lang (guitar, Australia) are well known and well regarded for their individual output and careers. Djan Djan is a new collaboration which sees these musicians stretching their imagination and skills into sublime areas of new musicality. Although the players show their respects to their cultural ## Performances - [Perth Festival](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/performance/bobby-singh-friends/) - A musical collaboration that spans generations, cultures and genres. Join ARIA Award-winning Tabla player Bobby Singh and his virtuosic group of friends for an evening of Indian classical-meets-jazz, blues and beyond. This free performance features the compositions of tabla maestro Aneesh Pradhan – communicated over voice note messages and interpreted by his disciple Bobby Singh - [Bellingen | 5churchst](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/performance/bellingen-5churchst/) - The Khyal Trio – featuring ARIA award winner Bobby Singh (Tablas), Sarah Hyland (Voice) & Damian Wright (flamenco guitar – Bandaluzia). “The tabla’s melodicism was so striking…Wright provided a solo introduction of exquisite delicacy and increasing drama” Sydney Morning Herald “An amazing fusion of ragas, jazz and flamenco… The Khyal Trio….astounded the capacity crowd with - [Newcastle | NIMA](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/performance/newcastle-nima/) - The Khyal Trio – featuring ARIA award winner Bobby Singh (Tablas), Sarah Hyland (Voice) & Damian Wright (flamenco guitar – Bandaluzia). “The tabla’s melodicism was so striking…Wright provided a solo introduction of exquisite delicacy and increasing drama” Sydney Morning Herald “An amazing fusion of ragas, jazz and flamenco… The Khyal Trio….astounded the capacity crowd with - [Woodford Folk Festival | Mon](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/performance/woodford-folk-festival-mon/) - A musical collaboration that spans generations, cultures and genres. Join ARIA Award-winning Tabla player Bobby Singh and his virtuosic group of friends for an evening of Indian classical-meets-jazz, blues and beyond. This free performance features the compositions of tabla maestro Aneesh Pradhan – communicated over voice note messages and interpreted by his disciple Bobby Singh - [Woodford Folk Festival | Sun](https://www.bobbysingh.com.au/performance/woodford-folk-festival-sun/) - A musical collaboration that spans generations, cultures and genres. Join ARIA Award-winning Tabla player Bobby Singh and his virtuosic group of friends for an evening of Indian classical-meets-jazz, blues and beyond. 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