Sacred Sounds,
New Worlds:
Rashmeet KauR
Saturday, July 11th, 2026
Vancouver Playhouse
600 Hamilton St
Vancouver
BC V6B 5N6
Doors: 6:00pm
Show: 7:00pm
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Kaur’s unmatched vocal abilities have catapulted her to the top of her league
- Rolling Stone India
Rashmeet Kaur is leading Punjab’s folk revival
- The Indian Express
Rashmeet Kaur is a Punjabi singer, songwriter, composer, and one of India’s biggest rising stars. In her much anticipated Vancouver debut, Rashmeet brings her signature fusion of defiant Punjabi folk, Sufi, hip-hop, and R&B inspired melodies to the Playhouse stage.
Known for blurring musical boundaries and a refusal to be boxed in, Rashmeet draws on the sounds of the past while speaking directly to the present, creating a sonic experience that is both rooted and radical in its point of view.
Whether you come for the folk, the feeling, or a fresh sound, Rashmeet’s Vancouver debut at Indian Summer Festival will offer something for everyone: not just for you, but for your aunties and your cousins, too.
Opening the night, Asad Khan’s Sammah Project offers a hand-held, transportive deep listening journey shaped by Sufi traditions and global influences, where soul and emotion meet high fidelity sound and bass. Drawing from Indian classical, Old Hindi film, Punjabi folk, Qawwali and Ghazal, each piece is reimagined within lush, electronic soundscapes where tradition and modern production live side by side.
This evening of classical and new music brings together two beloved artists reimagining the sound of devotion, longing, and contemporary diasporic expression.
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about the artists
rashmeet kaur
Rashmeet Kaur is a Punjabi singer, songwriter, and composer known for her signature fusion of Punjabi folk, Sufi, hip-hop and R&B sounds. Born in Punjab, raised in New Delhi, and currently based in Mumbai, Rashmeet’s musical journey began when she learned Gurmat Sangeet (Sikh Devotional Music) from her mother at age six, before going on to study classical and devotional music further. Since 2012, she has appeared on a variety of reality-based singing competitions including Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, Voice of Punjab, Asia’s Singing Superstar, and The Remix, the latter of which she won. Her hit song “Jadi Buti,” an international collaboration with Major Lazer, Diplo, and Nucleya, was part of their Grammy-nominated album. No stranger to going viral, she has appeared on Coke Studio Bharat, her remake of “Bajre de Sitta” took over Instagram in 2021, and to date, her music has been streamed across music platforms over 500 million times. She has been featured in major publications such as Rolling Stone India, The Times of India, and Hindustan Times.
asad khan’s sammah project
Sammah is where Asad Khan's two worlds meet: nostalgia & modernity. A student of Indian classical music and a lifelong enthusiast of electronic music production, he brings both into a single deep listening experience. Drawing from Indian classical, Old Hindi film, Punjabi folk, Qawwali and Ghazal, each piece is reimagined within lush, high-fidelity electronic soundscapes where tradition and modern production live side by side.
What makes Sammah unique is how Asad shares the experience. Through stories and real-time narrative, he gives listeners an insight into what is happening beneath the surface, and why the music is making them feel the way it does.
The result is something unhurried, immersive, and deeply personal, built from a lifetime of loving sound. Come not to listen, but to disappear into it.