Traditional Indian and western music will be performed

Raga and Rhapsody, at Cardiff's St David's Hall, features schoolchildren, dancers, and Cardiff's Asian community groups joining the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to perform specially-written works.

The music will combine the traditional northern Indian classical music form of Raga with music from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

The concert, on Thursday evening, features work created by west Wales composer Peter Stacey, who specialises in Indian classical music.

Schoolchildren learned Indian music to take part in the performance

Schoolchildren from Cardiff's Kitchener Primary School and Ysgol Pencae have been practising Indian singing and musical instruments to take part in the concert.

Suzanne Hay, education and community manager for the National Orchestra of Wales, said the schoolchildren taking part had learned new instruments to take part in the concert.

"At Ysgol Pencae, when we went in for the first session, we asked the children how many were learning musical instruments, all the hands went up," she said.

"More or less all of them were learning an instrument, which is fantastic."

The concert will use more than 200 musicians from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bhangra drummers and tabla players, as well as a choir made up of local schoolchildren.

The stage will also feature artwork from children from Moorland and Gladstone schools, in Cardiff.