India, Dec. 27 -- New Delhi

The busy, noisy, thin and long stretch of Sita Ram Bazaar locality-popular for its old havelis and also where former Prime Minister Jawaharhal Nehru had got married-is all set to play host to a musical concert, which will be a fusion of Indian classical, Persian and central Asian musical compositions, on December 27 afternoon.

The first of its kind hour-long indoor live concert, titled "The Songbook of Qawwals", will be performed by a six-member Indo-Persian group "Ensemble Khusrawi" at a restored haveli at the Kathika Cultural Centre and Museum in Old Delhi.

"The musical composition is part of my PhD, which is on Sufi manuscripts. It deeply explores the lost work of poets like Kabir, Amir Khusraw and Fakhru...