Shah e Mardan

Shahe Mardan is a group of musicians from the cities of Sheffield and Bradford that performs Qawwali music.

They are steeped in the tradition of this centuries-old form of belief and its associated music which originated in Persia (now Iran) and moved on to become very significant across South Asia. Their lead singer and harmonium player Mohamed Zubair accompanied the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, well-known for helping to bring Qawwali music to the ‘world music’ scene.

Shah-e-Mardan aim to show people the beauty of Sufi music, and can perform mesmerising, trance-like Qawwali music – for the uninitiated, it’s something akin to a multi-vocal, multi-instrumental, transcendental jam session – for three hours without stopping!