Candlelight: The Best of Bollywood on Strings

Candlelight: The Best of Bollywood on Strings comes to The Merchants House of Glasgow on Saturday 7 November, with the music of Bollywood on Strings taking centre stage. It's part of the Candlelight concert series, which they describe as live, multi-sensory musical experiences that take the music of a show or a genre and stage it in an awe-inspiring location under the gentle glow of candlelight. The whole idea is to strip a familiar sound back and let it breathe in a setting that's a bit more atmospheric than your usual gig.

The music on the night is Bollywood on Strings, so you'll be hearing the melodies of Bollywood played on string instruments. If you know the songs, you'll recognise them; if you don't, they're still melodies in their own right. The string arrangement changes the feel of the music, taking it away from the original productions and into something more stripped-back and acoustic. It's that shift—from the full sound of a Bollywood soundtrack to the sound of strings—that's the main thing to listen for.

The venue is The Merchants House of Glasgow, at 7 West George Street in the city centre. It's the old Merchant Guild, and it still stands as a representative of the city's mercantile community: a substantial Glasgow charity that extends benevolence to other charitable organisations, makes grants to educational institutions and awards bursaries. It's a building with a fair bit of history behind it, and that's the kind of place they pick for these concerts.

Tickets are £27.50, and the music starts at 8:30pm on Saturday 7 November. It's a Saturday night in the city centre, so it's an easy one to build an evening around.