The fifth season of the Kolkata Street Music Festival festival was held at Craft Coffee (Infinity Think Tank) recently. Shyam Sundar Co J...
The fifth season of the Kolkata Street Music Festival festival was held at Craft Coffee (Infinity Think Tank) recently. Shyam Sundar Co Jewellers presented the festival with the support of Craft Coffee, Infinity, Flixbag Music, Soma Das, Kingshuk Das, and others. The inaugural ceremony was graced by Antara Chowdhury, Soumya Dasgupta, Rocket Mandal, Rupak Saha, Director, Shyam Sundar Co. Jewellers, and others. Aninda Das, on behalf of Infinity, was also present at the do.
Sourojyoti-Krishnendu a violinist-singer duo well-known as 'Third Stage' sang a melodious song Saraswati Nadi Teere, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay Music Academy students presented Prantarer Gaan Amar Madhurjo Mukherjee sang Shono Kono Ekdin, Chandrima Bhattacharya and Manu performed Ami Cholte Cholte Theme Gachhi, Jaya Nag sang Duranta Ghurnir, Shouvik Mukherjee performed a tune on the sitar (Surer Jharna), a legendary music composer Sudhin Dasgupta's son Soumya Dasgupta played a tune on the guitar Dur Noy Beshi Dur, Antara Chowdhury sang 'Se Gaan Ami Jai Je Bhule". Noted actress-singer Ruman Guhathakurta's Calcutta Youth Choir performed Pothe Ebar Namo Sathi, a choir song. Noted guitarist-composer Rocket Mandal performed Salil Sangeet (Chole Je Jay Din). Two special names from the Bengali bands circuit are Cactus and Shahar. The lead vocalists of these two bands Sidhu (Dil Tadap Ke) and Anindya (Pagal Hawa) paid tribute to the legendary composer through songs. Tarun Goswami (Mon Matal) paid tribute to Salil Chowdhury by whistling. The musical evening was anchored by Debashish Basu.
Sudipta Chanda, organizer of the event said, "Of course, this is a different kind of music festival. It can be considered a celebration of life through music. This year, we celebrated musical genius Salil Chowdhury's centenary. It's to promote street music and support street musicians."
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