Nagpur: It took the youth of the city to curate a music festival that not just featured local talent but also gave the city a feel of what's happening at national level. The two-day 'Zero Mile Music Festival' which concluded on Sunday with a scintillating theatre performance by 21 artists from Mumbai, left the audience asking for more.
The festival has been designed and curated by young sound recordist Aman Moroney in memory of his great grandfather Bhaskarao Moroney, a musician, and was presented by Laxmi Vyankatesh Devasthan Trust run by the Moroney family.
The event got off to a flying start on Saturday with a musical show aptly titled Crossroads that saw city artists collaborating with members of the band Alif. Vocalists Sadhana Shiledar, faculty member at the department of music at Morris College, and upcoming classical vocalists Renuka Indurkar and Chetan Balpande sang along Mohammad Muneem Nazir, an Urdu Kashmiri poet, and Sayantika Ghosh, both members of Alif. Presenting a mix of khayal, dhrupad gaayaki and thumri along with nazm and English numbers, the artists gave the audience an experience to savour.
The performances began with Nazir reciting one of his poems in Kashmiri. Chetan Balpande followed it up with a dhrupad presentation in raga Multani. Keeping performances brief, Renuka Indurkar presented a khayal in raga Bageshree which was followed by a raag mala by Sadhana Shiledar. Steering the audience towards light music was Shazeb Sheikh with a qawwali and presentations by Alif where Shiledar joined Muneem for a balmy nazm with her singing 'balma tere jhagde main rain gayee to Muneem's taaro ke anjuman. A Bangla and an English song by Sayantika Ghosh completed the repertoire which also included a mesmerizing number 'Godhuli' for which percussionist Karan Deshmukh joined Shiledar and Muneem.
The conclusion of the festival on Sunday was a riot of theatrics, music, humour and dance with director Sunil Shanbag's play 'Stories in a Song' being staged. Soaked in rustic North Indian flavours with folk music dance and the language of hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh, it was an eclectic collage of India's finest music genres and its rich cultural heritage.
The two-hour play brought together a variety of Indian music through an assortment of seven short pieces and told the tale of traditional forms like kajri, thumri-dadra and khayal and essentially North Indian genres like nautanki and Basant Panchami celebrations at dargah of Nizamuddin Aulia. The play that blends music, dance, theatre, literature and education has been conceptualized by musicians Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan and spans several eras. Shanbag used an ensemble cast where all actors are also good singers.
The festival has been designed and curated by young sound recordist Aman Moroney in memory of his great grandfather Bhaskarao Moroney, a musician, and was presented by Laxmi Vyankatesh Devasthan Trust run by the Moroney family.
The event got off to a flying start on Saturday with a musical show aptly titled Crossroads that saw city artists collaborating with members of the band Alif. Vocalists Sadhana Shiledar, faculty member at the department of music at Morris College, and upcoming classical vocalists Renuka Indurkar and Chetan Balpande sang along Mohammad Muneem Nazir, an Urdu Kashmiri poet, and Sayantika Ghosh, both members of Alif. Presenting a mix of khayal, dhrupad gaayaki and thumri along with nazm and English numbers, the artists gave the audience an experience to savour.
The performances began with Nazir reciting one of his poems in Kashmiri. Chetan Balpande followed it up with a dhrupad presentation in raga Multani. Keeping performances brief, Renuka Indurkar presented a khayal in raga Bageshree which was followed by a raag mala by Sadhana Shiledar. Steering the audience towards light music was Shazeb Sheikh with a qawwali and presentations by Alif where Shiledar joined Muneem for a balmy nazm with her singing 'balma tere jhagde main rain gayee to Muneem's taaro ke anjuman. A Bangla and an English song by Sayantika Ghosh completed the repertoire which also included a mesmerizing number 'Godhuli' for which percussionist Karan Deshmukh joined Shiledar and Muneem.
The conclusion of the festival on Sunday was a riot of theatrics, music, humour and dance with director Sunil Shanbag's play 'Stories in a Song' being staged. Soaked in rustic North Indian flavours with folk music dance and the language of hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh, it was an eclectic collage of India's finest music genres and its rich cultural heritage.
The two-hour play brought together a variety of Indian music through an assortment of seven short pieces and told the tale of traditional forms like kajri, thumri-dadra and khayal and essentially North Indian genres like nautanki and Basant Panchami celebrations at dargah of Nizamuddin Aulia. The play that blends music, dance, theatre, literature and education has been conceptualized by musicians Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan and spans several eras. Shanbag used an ensemble cast where all actors are also good singers.
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