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RadhaRaman Folk Festival 2025
Bringing the finest and colourful presentations of Bengali folk music and dance for global audiences.
The International RadhaRaman Folk Festival, an ecstasy of Bengali as well as global folk music and dance returning for the 15th year in Leeds and Bradford.
The festival as a whole features haunting sessions of Folk music from other traditions, fusion of Flamenco with Bengali folk dance and essentially the visceral Bengali folk, Baul and Vaishnav music, dazzling Dhamail dance along with poetry in the wood as well as endless networking fun in the forest, lake, lyrical landscape around the North of England.
RadhaRaman Folk Festival | Book Launch Session
Leeds Civic Hall, Committee Room 1-2, Calverley St, Leeds LS1 1UR
Thursday 27 November at 5pm
The session of the festival in Civic Hall features book launch of a short-story book The Tapestry of Truth by a talented fictionist Shantanu Goswami and a poetry book Maidens in Heaven by an acclaimed Columbian poet Johanna Carvajal .
Free Registration:
RadhaRaman Folk Festival | Henry Barron Centre
Hanry Barron Centre, 14 Amberton Grove, Leeds LS8 3JL
Sunday 30 November 2025 at 3:30pm
The session of the festival, in collaboration with Hamwattan Centre at Henry Barron Centre is bringing the best of RadhaRaman Datta's compositions as well as South Asian Folk Music & Folk Dance by the best interpreters of different genres from all across the UK and aboard.
Free Registration:
RadhaRaman Folk Festival | Ballads of Winter
The Reginald Centre | 263 Chapeltown Rd, Leeds LS7 3EX
Friday 5 December at 5pm
The session of the festival, in collaboration with Chapeltown Library at the Reginald Centre is bringing poetry, music and dance that will surely warm you up in cold winter evening presented by leading performers of different genres.
The session also celebrates a book-launch for Bangladeshis in Bradford by Dr Shaukat Ahmed MBE.
Free Registration:
RadhaRaman Folk Festival | Christmas and New Year Celebration
Carlisle Centre, 60 Carlisle Rd, Manningham, Bradford BD8 8BD
Saturday, 27 December 2025 at 5pm
The session of the festival, in collaboration with Carlisle Centre in Bradford is bringing the best of South Asian Folk Music & Dance by the best interpreters of different genres from all across the UK and aboard to celebrate Christmas and new Year.
Free registration:
Venue: From Nov 27, 2025 to Dec 27, 2025 in Leeds and Bradford
