Bangla Khayal Festival at Channel i
Channel i will host the first night-long Bangla Khayal Festival at its premises on January 31. At a press conference yesterday, organisers informed that over a hundred artistes, will perform Bangla Khayal at the event, led by eminent music exponent Azad Rahman and including reputed names like Ustad Yasin Khan, Ferdous Ara, Karim Shahbuddin, Nashid Kamal, Bizon Chandra Mistry and Priyanka Gope, among many others.
Ustad Yasin Khan will also be given lifetime achievement honours at the festival.
Channel i director Shykh Seraj made the announcement at the event, adding that the festival is an initiative of Channel i to popularise Bangla Khayal, a form of Hindustani classical music.
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