Shuddha Sangeet Festival at Chhayanaut begins today

As part of its ongoing annual programme, Chhayanaut is holding a two-day classical music festival (both vocal and instrumental) at its main auditorium. Starting on December 20 evening, the festival comprises three sessions --first from 6pm to 11pm on the opening day; second from 9am to 1pm on December 21 and starting from 7pm on the concluding day, the third and final session will continue at a stretch and come to an end on Saturday morning (December 22).
Veteran Bangladeshi tabla maestro Madan Gopal Das will formally inaugurate the festival while Deshikottom Dr. Sanjida Khatun and Khairul Anam Shakil, President and GS of Chhayanaut will be present at the inaugural programme.
"With an aim to generate interests of common people in classical music and to diffuse the genre in every nook and corner of Bangladesh, we are holding this festival that will see participation of noted local and two Indian classical artistes --Ustad Bahauddin Dagar (of Mumbai) will play Rudra Veena on the first session and Arnab Chatterjee (vocalist) of Kolkata will perform on the third session. The festival always inspires and promotes many accomplished Bangladeshi artistes who have learned from India," said Khairul Anam Shakil.
Apart from group performances by Chhayanaut artistes in every session, Priyanka Gope, Mahmudul Hasan and Parag Pratim Chakrabarty will render solos at the first session.
Satindranath Haldar, Swarnamoy Chakraborty, and Maidul Islam will be the featured vocalists while Alauddin Mian (violin) and Sabuj Ahmed (tabla) will present solo instrumental recitals at the second session.
The nightlong third and final session of the festival will have a number of artistes including Khairul Anam Shakil, Md. Yakub Ali Khan, Rezwan Ali, Asit Dey, Anup Barua and Syeda Sanjida Zohra Beethika performing vocal music while Rajrupa Chowdhury (sarod), Ebadul Huq Shaikat (sitar) and Mortuza Kabir Murad (flute) will present instrumental recitals at that session. Several Bngladeshi artistes with two Indian artistes will accompany the performances of all the three sessions on tabla, harmonium and tanpura.
Kazi Farms has been assisting in the festival while ATN Bangla is the media partner.