Heavy Rains ‘Storms’ Music Festival in Coorg
Date : January 2012
Venue : Coorg
One of the country's newest festivals ‘Storm’, a brain-child of LIQUIDSPACE Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. has been postponed to January 2012. The 48-hour long festival was scheduled to be held on 11th & 12th November in the beautiful Coorg hills in Karnataka. The festival was postpond after the unexpected untimely rains during this time of the year made the festival venue slushy and muddy and some parts of the venue was water logged making it inaccessible for people as well as vehicles.
The festival top-flight acts were the Raghu Dixit Project, Indian Ocean, Swarathma, Ankur & the Ghalat Family, Soulmate and many more were to perform and Nikhil Chinnappa was to host the festival. Liquidspace Entertainment, organisers of the festival has stated that the tickets issued earlier will be valid in January 2012 and for refund details one can contact Bookmyshow.com or Liquidspace Entertainment.
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Sunburn Festival: Eclectic and Electric
Date: 27&29 December , 2011
Venue : Candolim Beach, Goa
A perfect blend of music, entertainment, food and shopping is more than anything that a music lover can ask for. Well, that’s exactly what she/he gets at the Sunburn Festival, which is about to unfold for the fifth time. Asia’s biggest electronica dance music festival will be featuring the debut performance of international electronica artiste Pete Tong.
The three-day fest will witness performance of 90 artistes on seven stages including two new label stages, ‘Defected in the House’ and ‘Toolroom Knights’. The line-up of artistes includes Above and Beyond, Jalebee Cartel, Funkagenda, Pearl, John 00 Fleming, Skazi, Ma Faiza, Anil Chawla and Dale Anderson, Liquid Soul, Sanjay Dutta, Lost Stories, Nawed Khan and Shaan.
Other international artistes like Gabriel & Dresden, Jerome Ismae Ae, Perfect Stranger, Laughing Buddha, Rae and Brute Force will also perform for the first time at the fest.
Sunburn 2011 will take place between December 27 and 29 at Candolim Beach, Goa. The third day line-up is yet to be announced. Hoping this time the fan base of the festival crosses 50,000 marks and inspiring the organizers of the show hire more artist. Wishing them all the best
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music launch was launched
Date : 3rd November, Saturday(6 pm
Puneet Issar’s forthcoming project ‘I Am Singh’ saw its music launch. The hall was electric as Indian pop-star Daler Mehendi belted out songs from I AM SINGH,
Puneet Issar’s best remembered for his portrayal of Duryodhan in BR Chopra's TV epic, Mahabharat, returns to the big screen after a gap of 7 years with ‘I AM SINGH’, his directorial debut was Salman Khan starrer Garv, Puneet Issar. The movie is produced by Sardar Peshaura Singh Thind- a salute to the undying spirit of Sikhs all over the world.
‘I Am Singh’ throws light on discrimination and racism that Indians have faced abroad, post what could only be described as one of the most appalling events the world has ever witnessed, the 9/11 terror strikes in New York that occurred over a decade ago –I AM SINGH focuses on how Americans mistook Sikhs to be part of Islamic terrorist groups and the trauma that follows.
Keeping with the spirit of the film, the album is an interesting mix of songs with various composers and singers on board including Daler Mehendi, Sukhwinder Singh, Mika Singh, Monty Sharma, Sudhakar Dutt Sharma, Arvinder Singh & Sumitra Iyer.
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‘LokpriyaTimeless Melodies’ was an event of raga-based film songs sung by Suresh Wadkar, Padma Wadkar and Sayli Joshi. The event was presented by NCPA Centre for the Promotion of Arts and Culture Trust Presentation at Tata Theatre on Thursday, 17th November.Indian music finds expression through various categories of popular music, some of which enjoy mass appeal, but what none can ever dismiss is the longevity the ragas bring to any song. The event was an acknowledgement of this very fact.
Puneet Issar’s best remembered for his portrayal of Duryodhan in BR Chopra's TV epic, Mahabharat, returns to the big screen after a gap of 7 years with ‘I AM SINGH’, his directorial debut was Salman Khan starrer Garv, Puneet Issar. The movie is produced by Sardar Peshaura Singh Thind- a salute to the undying spirit of Sikhs all over the world.
Trained in classical music from a very young age with JialalVasant, Suresh Wadkar was led into the world of film music by composer and music director Jaidev. He went on to work with other music directors, and has a repertoire that includes geet, ghazal, bhajanand bhavgeet in various languages. Among the various awards received by him, the most recent is the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer (2011) for the film ‘MeeSindhutaiSapkal’ (Marathi). As a versatile singer, composer and teacher, Suresh Wadkar continues the mission set by his mentor, to teach music to the younger generation. The event actually showcased this wonderful tradition.
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'Pappu Can’t Dance Saala' first mass entertainer by Saurabh Shukla's launched its music in amidst of the flashes of the shutterbugs and ample media attention!
The host for the evening Siddharth Kanan interacted with the audience, and that’s how the event kicked off. Then he called on stage veteran director, Sudhir Mishra and producer/director Vipul Shah to launch the promo of the film. Singers from the movie Aakriti Kakkar, Shilpa Rao, Sangeet Haldipur, Kailash Kher and Mansi Scott to name a few took the centre stage one by one and enthralled the audience with a variety of songs from the movie.
Pritam was there to support his friend and protege Malhar, the music director of Pappu Can’t Dance Saala.
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Mumbaikars were treated to a musical extravaganza as Team Rockstar set the stage on fire at their Mumbai concert at Bhavan’s College grounds. What makes even more special is that this is the first time Rahman has promoted the music of a film he has composed, via a live concert.
The concert started off with Ranbir Kapoor’s rendition of Rumi’s poem ‘Meeting Place', which ultimately led to the opening track of the concert ‘Phir Se Ud Chala’ with sensational vocal by Mohit Chauhan. It was a treat for the fans.
The show was hosted by Chang and saw Rockstar Ranbir leave no stone unturned, with guitar strumming, dancing and some special stunts played to perfection for the screaming crowd.
A special tribute to the late Shammi Kapoor was given with some sweet, behind-the-scenes footage of the late actor.
The concert had a special introduction by director Imtiaz Ali who spoke about the film to the audiences. Joining them were Mohit Chauhan- the voice of Ranbir in Rockstar, singers Harshdeep Kaur and Monica Dogra along with percussion guru Sivamani and Rahman’s key associate Ranjit Barod.
The crowd especially went crazy when the rage of the year, ‘Saadda Haq’ was performed on stage, but the number ‘Nadaan Parinde’ was what got the fans grooving. Ranbir and Nargis Fakhri performed on a sweet romantic number, enthralling the fans with their chemistry.
Other songs performed from Rockstar included: ‘Jo Bhi Main’, ‘Kun Faaya Kun’ (with the original Qawwali singers also performing live at the concert), ‘Katiyan Karun’ and ‘Tum Ho’.
The maestro, with Ranbir and Mohit, awed the crowd with their ground-breaking performance of 'Jo Bhi Main' which jelled with the Mumbaities chorused, “Ya-Ya-Ya.”
As the fans were totally charged up, the concert headed to its finale with the electrifying song ‘Sadda Haq’. The hair down performance instantly got united with the LED light show, confetti and fireworks. The performance rocked the entire arena and brought the house down with Mumbaities applauding, grooving and echoing the chorus
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