It's been almost a month since we went for this unique series of concerts organised by the Delhi government and Sehar. In fact we went for the first and the last day and I must say we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
More than us, our year old baby, Kabir, loved being out in the park with excellent music to dance and play to.
Out of all the excellent performances, Sanjeev Abhayankar's rendition of Krishna bhajans was superlative and set the tone for other brilliant performers. Two more set of musicians whose respective performances went straight to the soul were: Ustad Chand Afazal with Gurbani and the sufis of Dargah Yusufain from Hyderabad. The latter were rather unceremoniously asked to step down as the concert was running a bit late- when will Indian comperes learn to be more humble and graceful?
Overall, it was a commendable attempt in a long series of many more, by the Delhi govt to make music accessible to all, and much more importantly, to make Indian classical music maestros take their inimitable art to the general public, thus reviving what could otherwise be a dying interest in a musical tradition as old as our history!
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