Chhayanauts Shuddha Sangeet Utsab kicks of today
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Tow-day Chhayanauts annual Shuddha Sangeet Utsab begins today at the main auditorium of Chhayanaut in the capitals Dhanmondi area. The two-day grand classical music festival, comprising two sessions, has been scheduled to end on December 31 morning.
The 10th edition of the festival will be inaugurated formally by eminent music guru Saimud Ali Khan from Dinajpur with the lighting of candles as a symbol of diffusing knowledge. The first session of the festival will start with a group performance by Chhayanaut artistes at 5:30pm today.
Besides group performances, vocalist Satindranath Haldar, vocalist Yakub Ali Khan, vocalist Salahuddin Ahmed, Sarod player Rajrupa Chowdhury, vocalist Latifun Julio will perform at the first session from 5:30pm to 10pm on the inaugural day.
The second session of the festival will start tomorrow at 6pm with the group flute recital by the artistes of Chhayanaut. Besides, several noted and promising vocalists Sumon Chowdhury, Asit Kumar Dey, Shekhar Mondol, Priyanka Gope, Aloke Kumar Sen, Salok Hossain (Rajshahi), Liton Das (Chittagong), Tinku Sheel, Sanjiban Sanyal Shubho, Sushmita Debnath Suchi and Abhijit Kundu will perform classical vocal music while Murtaza Kabir Murad will present flute, Asit Biswas will play esraj and Ebadul Huq Shaikat will play sitar at the nightlong session.
AK Azad Pradhan, Ratan Kumar Das, Shekhar Mondol, Gautam Sarker, Surajit Mukherjee, Bizon Chandra Mistry, Iftekhar Alam Pradhan, Swarup Hossain, Sabuj Ahmed, Tinku Sheel, Sanjiban Sanyal Shubho, Prashanta Bhowmik, Al-Ikram Raju will accompany the performances on tabla and harmonium.
