SummerFest 2025 – Indian Classical

Ricky Romain (www.robertgoldenpictures.com) began his Classical Indian musical study by becoming a residential pupil of Punita Gupta (a disciple of Ravi Shankar) in Southall London in 1972. From 1975-77 he continued to learn and refine technique under the supervision of Bengali sitar player P. Gunguly. Ricky has performed regularly throughout the West Country, Nationally and in Europe since the early 1980’s. He has also been involved in a number of school and community arts projects using Indian Folk and Classical music as a focus for Inter- disciplinary study. For the last ten years he has been an associate lecturer in Indian classical music at the University of Plymouth. Ricky and Lewis Riley (Tabla) have been playing together since the early 90s. They have performed at many art centres and intimate venues across the South West. ‘’’Your performances were truly mesmerising’ Esther White, University of Exeter
Ricky is also a talented artist and advocate for Human Rights.