Welcome to Baluji Music Foundation

Baluji Music Foundation is an inclusive organisation encouraging participation in music by people from different cultural perspectives, we especially welcome people who are differently abled. We promote the understanding and enjoyment of music and performing arts from the Indian Sub-Continent in all it’s traditional and evolving forms. Our motto is “sharing the joy of music” which we promote through performances, workshops, collaborations, research and exciting projects. Our showcase project is the Inner Vision Orchestra of blind musicians performing nationally and internationally.

We are the only promoters of regular events by blind musicians in the UK.

Inner Vision Music Workshops continue to train and entertain visually impaired people across London funded by The Big Lottery, Vision Foundation and Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. During Corona Virus Lockdown we have a series of interviews with Inner Vision Orchestra musicians on www.theBlind.tv which is our internet tv channel featuring blind people doing all kinds of interesting things!

Inner Vision Women performed a deeply moving concert under the shadow of lockdown on March 16 at RichMix catch it on this Youtube link

https://youtu.be/blSm-aUaX2s

2020 Inner Vision events are planned from September if theatres and venues re-open. We are busy preparing remotely with our orchestra members. Inner Vision Orchestra will feature on a new album coming out in September on the NAXOS ARC label.

On December 3 2019 Interactions-Baluji National Tour funded by Arts Council England with Workshops for Blind & Visually Impaired people came to an end. Click here for more info.

Baluji Shrivastav OBE with Inner Vision Orchestra UK, plus guest blind musicians from India, Addictive TV, and Arunima Kumar Dance Company have recently been performing a sensational International Commission by Unlimited called Antardrishti - Inner Vision, a production inspired by the Bhagavad Gita. Click here for more info.

We have completed the production and screenings with live music accompaniment of five films “ The Lives and Music of Blind Musicians in Post-War London”, funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund. Click here to see the playlist for all the videos.

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