Free festival with world-class music

West London will echo to the sounds of opera, Parisian electro-pop and hip hop at this weekend's Music Day.

Venues along Exhibition Road, South Kensington, are taking part in Sunday's free festival.

Electronic dance act Banco de Gaia are at the Royal Geographical Society and there will be Bollywood dance workshops at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Nzinga Dance African drumming in Kensington Gardens.

Other performers include world open harmonica champion Philip Achille, poet Bas Boettcher and British singer-songwriter Jamie Woon.

The programme is London's contribution to European Music Day and is part of efforts by Exhibition Road's 18 museums, galleries and learning institutions to promote the area.

Closer ties between South Kensington's artistic and scientific communities have grown with the appointment of a chief executive for Exhibition Road Cultural Group, Paul Cutts.

Mr Cutts, 40, said: "Exhibition Road was London's original cultural quarter and there's nowhere else in the world with such diverse institutions."