Shironamhin to kick off Australia tour this April

Bangladesh’s acclaimed band Shironamhin is set to begin its Australia Tour 2026 this April, opening with a major performance at the “Bengali New Year Cultural Fest” in Sydney. 

The open-air concert will mark the band’s first appearance in Australia for the year and is expected to draw members of the Bangladeshi diaspora alongside local Australian audiences.

Organisers say the festival aims to reconnect expatriate communities with the roots of Bangladeshi heritage through music, making Shironamhin’s participation particularly significant. Following the Sydney event, the band is scheduled to perform across multiple Australian states as part of a broader cultural outreach tour.

Formed in 1996, Shironamhin has built a reputation for blending Bengali classical and literary traditions with a contemporary band format. Their music integrates instruments such as sarod, flute, cello, banjo and indigenous percussion with electric guitar and modern arrangements. Rather than adopting surface-level fusion, the band structures its compositions around raga-based melodies, traditional rhythmic cycles and poetic lyricism influenced by Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Geeti and Baul philosophy.

Over nearly three decades, the group has released eight full-length albums, beginning with their debut Jahaji (2004), which brought national recognition. Songs like Hashimukh and Jahaji remain widely celebrated, with Hashimukh later reintroduced to younger audiences through Coke Studio Bangla.

Their most recent album, Batighor (The Lighthouse), was produced as an unplugged project emphasising organic instrumentation at a time when digital and AI-driven production dominates global music trends.