Saptak music fest begins on Oct 1
Will bring sixty promising artistes on centrestage

It’s time again for Ahmedabad to showcase the young and promising musicians from various cities in the country. Beginning October 1, is the seven-day annual Sankalp-Saptak music festival, to be held at the Gajjar Hall near Law Garden, which will highlight the creative innovations and musical sophistication of more than 60 musicians.

The repertoire will include Hindustani classical music/vocal, instrumental and percussion.

Organised by the two-decade old Saptak School of Music the young, talented artists participating in the event since the last two or three years have testified to the growing popularity of the board, sitar, santoor, tabla and vocal music.

The music lovers in the city who throng the festival bear testimony to the scope for exploring and encouraging nascent talent here.

Visitors to the festival on earlier occasions spoke highly of the variety and quality of music that comes to fore here.

The Meerut based Sankalp, under whose auspices the current festival is going to be held, is not merely an organisation, but a movement in itself with a string of network of about 20 branches - Ahmedabad included - all over India.

In fact Sankalp is a landmark in the field of India classical music.

The festival ending October 7, is sponsored by Indian Oil Corporation.

This year the 60-odd members repeat some of the familiar faces, along with some new names. Along with Vinod Vaishnav, Shishir Bhatt, Nakula Mishra and others from Ahrnedabad, Suman Yadav, Monica Shah, Soma Singh will perform.

Nandan Mehta, the leading light in Indian Classical music from the Ahmedabad centre will also be present.

And as an annual feature aiding the cause of art, will be the presentation of an award to Pt. Prakash Wadhera, an eminent music critic from Delhi.

Compiled from local news media