Indira Gandhi Culture Centre (IGCC) is organising an evening of Rabindra Sangeet by Kamal Ahmed tomorrow at Sufia Kamal Auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum (BNM) in the capital’s Shahbag area. Kamal Ahmed is Director, External Service of Bangladesh Betar. He is from the Bangladesh Civil Service (Information), and has been working with Bangladesh Betar and BTV for the last 26 years. As he has a passion for music, especially Rabindra Sangeet, he took extensive training in music from Chhayanaut under the direct supervision of Ustad Wahidul Haque, Ikhtiar Omar, Sirajus Salekin (Rabindra Sangeet) and Ustad Ful Mohammad (Classical music).
Kamal Ahmed has given many performances in BTV and private channels and also in Tara TV in India. Besides giving stage performances in Bangladesh, he has also performed in India in Bangladesh High Commission, Agartala; Maharaja Birbikram University, Agartala; All India Women’s Congress, Kolkata; Rabindra Sadan, Kolkata etc.
Awards received by Kamal Ahmed include SAARC Cultural Society Shammanona; Bangabandhu Gobeshona Foundation Award; Adwaitia Mallabarman Smriti Shammanona and Dhirendranath Dutta Shammanona.
He has released fourteen solo and one mixed audio album, mostly Rabindra Sangeet, since 2007. Some of them are – ‘Sada Megher Bhela’, ‘Nana Ronger Dinguli’, ‘Godhuli’- A tribute to Kishore Kumar, ‘Baluka Belay’ – A Tribute to Hemanta Mukherjee, ‘Mohakabyer Kobi’ – A tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman etc.
Where: BNM, Shahbag
When: 6pm, tomorrow
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