"I have been to hundreds of concerts in my life. This was different."
A fan who attended the London show described it this way: "I have been to hundreds of concerts in my life — rock concerts, classical concerts, jazz, everything. A Sartaaj concert is different from all of them. The silence in that room is something I have never experienced anywhere else. Two thousand people, completely silent, completely present. I cried three times and I am not someone who cries at concerts."
"My mother and I have never felt so close."
A second-generation Punjabi fan who attended the Toronto show with her mother wrote: "My mother came to Canada from Punjab thirty years ago. We love each other but sometimes the distance between our two worlds feels very large. At the Sartaaj concert, that distance disappeared completely. We sat there together and felt exactly the same things at exactly the same moments. We cried together during Ikk Tara. I will never forget it."
"I drove four hours and I would do it again tomorrow."
A fan who attended the Melbourne show from regional Victoria wrote: "I drove four hours to get to the concert and four hours back. I would do it again tomorrow without hesitation. It was the most worthwhile four hours of driving I have ever done. The music reaches something inside you that you did not know was there."
"Even my teenagers loved it."
A Punjabi father attending with his teenage children described his surprise: "I brought my two teenagers along, both born in Australia, both more interested in Western music than Punjabi. I was not sure how they would respond. By the end of the first song, both of them were completely still, completely absorbed. After the show, my daughter said to me: 'Dad, I understand now why you love this music so much.' That is worth more to me than I can express."
"The poetry between the songs was as beautiful as the songs themselves."
A fan attending her first Sartaaj concert wrote: "What surprised me most was the speaking. I knew he was a poet but I did not expect him to speak so much between songs — and I did not expect the speaking to be as moving as the music. He recited a shayari about longing that I will be thinking about for years."
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Every one of these experiences is waiting for you at the next Satinder Sartaaj live concert near you. Check our Shows page for upcoming dates in India, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know when new shows are announced. And if you have attended a Sartaaj Ji concert and would like to share your experience, submit your review on our Fan Reviews page — your words may help another fan decide to attend for the very first time.