About
"Wonderfully magical and timeless"
Aayushi is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Birmingham, UK, with Indian heritage. She writes strikingly tender songs, delivering them with an intimacy that has often been described as the sonic equivalent of a warm hug.
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While she draws comparisons to contemporaries like Julia Jacklin and Rachel Sermanni, her earliest musical influences come from the lo-fi, fuzz-folk world of Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, and The Microphones.
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Fresh On The Net
"This is language distilled into pure feeling, this is poetry"
Phil Shaw, Get to the Chorus
2024 saw Aayushi bring her music to wellbeing and folk music platforms across the UK, including Southbank Centre, Purbeck Valley Folk Festival, Deer Shed Festival and Birmingham's Symphony Hall.
At 17, she began to share her compositions with the world, self-releasing a host of singles that have garnered her a global online following. With support from the likes of BBC 6’s Fresh on The Net and BBC West Midlands, her music has graced Spotify’s ‘Most Beautiful Songs in the World’ and ‘New Music Friday UK’ playlists, racking up over 7 million Spotify streams to date.
She was recently awarded an Opera North residency to innovate a selection of contemporary folk adaptations of bhajans and ghazals, with the aim of bringing the beauty of South Asian poetry to life in a 21st century world.
"A fiercely DIY approach to music making"
Tom Robinson
Upcoming shows
Notable performances​​​
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Birmingham '23 Festival, August 2023
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Crescent Theatre (supporting Nessi Gomes), October 2023
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Exeter Phoenix (supporting Dominie Hooper), November 2023
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Southbank Centre, March 2024
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Deer Shed Festival, July 2024
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Purbeck Folk Festival, August 2024
Photo credit: Ollie Bowern Photography