Press Release: Raghu Dixit 'Unplugged' Live in York - EP Tour

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Artist: Raghu Dixit

Release: “Unplugged” Live in York - EP (download only)

Released: 23rd April 2012

Label: Believe Digital

Free Download: Gudugudiya Sedi Nodo

Raghu Dixit Announces New EP and UK Festival Dates! Plus Free Download

“Quite literally, the world is Raghu’s oyster” – Rolling Stone, India

“...an exceptional, relaxed vocal style” - The Guardian

“a debut solo album of swaggering confidence” - Songlines

Raghu Dixit’s first project of 2012 is the EP “Unplugged - Live In York” - released April 23rd, recorded last summer with his band The Raghu Dixit Project in a stunning medieval church in Walmgate, York.

“Live In York” is an intimate, largely acoustic affair in which Raghu demonstrates his extraordinary vocal prowess and intricate guitar work in a five track set. It includes “No Man Will Ever Love You Like I Do”, the song that transformed his career when he performed it live on Later… With Jools Holland back in 2009 to an audience including fellow-guests Adele, Robert Plant and Arcade Fire, who all showed their appreciation. Following transmission Raghu topped the iTunes’ World Music chart in Britain and he’s now India’s highest-selling non-Bollywood domestic artist.

Live In York also includes a new version of the crowd (and YouTube) favourite “Gudugudiya Sedi Nodo”, written by one of the great Kannada poets, Saint Shishunala Sharif. There is one new song too, the poignant English-language ballad “I Still Love You”, which was inspired by a romantic story from another Kannada poet, written over a hundred years ago.

Raghu sings with pure unbridled elation, his music and vocals are powerfully uplifting and a real awakener to the senses. You need only check his Jools performance to experience this yourself http://youtu.be/oBnpKyHiAn8

Raghu Dixit will appear on the The Andrew Marr Show (BBC1) on April 15th

Hear /host the EP here: http://snd.sc/IoPbiL

Host the free download: “Gudugudiya Sedi Nodo” here: http://snd.sc/IgyyIn

2012 Festival and Tour Dates:

April 14th              OneFest Marlborough, Wiltshire
April 18th/19th    Alchemy Festival, Southbank Centre, London
May 26th              Bochum, Germany
May 27th              Music Meeting, The Netherlands
June 2nd               Bushstock, St Stephens Church, Shepherds Bush, London
June 9th               Salisbury Festival, Salisbury, Wiltshire
June 10th             Shoreditch House, London
June 13th              Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham
June 22nd            Solas Festival, Wiston by Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
June 24th              Brighton Dome, Brighton
July 15th                                Larmer Tree Festival, Salisbury, Wiltshire
July 27th                                Cambridge Folk Festival, Cambridge
July 28th                                WOMAD, Malmesbury, Wiltshire
July 29th                                Milton Keynes International Festival, Milton Keynes
August 18th         Beautiful Days, Exeter, Devon