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Dipayan Mazumdar, Chairman, Legends of India informed that the Eighth Annual Music Festival will be held in New Delhi during May 19- 21, 2006. The Legends of India Lifetime Achievement Award shall be conferred upon a living legend on May 18, 2006
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Dipayan Mazumdar, Chairman, Legends of India informed that the Eighth Annual Music Festival will be held in New Delhi during May 19- 21, 2006. The Legends of India Lifetime Achievement Award shall be conferred upon a living legend on May 18, 2006
The festival shall present an evening with the legendary Ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali, Music for relaxation by creator of the Mohan Veena and the winner of the Grammy Award, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, besides a ballet entitled ‘Jai Bharati’ by Shovana Narayan, Madhavi Mudgal and Geeta Chandran, Guru Singhajeet Singh and Charu Sija Mathur, Guru Jaya Rama Rao and Vanashree and Bharati Shivaji.
On the eve of the festival on Thursday, May 18, 2006 the Legends of India Lifetime Achievement Award for Music will be conferred upon a living legend. Corporate heads, media heads, bureaucrats and other social dignitaries attend this prestigious ceremony. The recipients in the past were Pandit Birju Maharaj, Yamini Krishnamurthy, Shri Habib Tanvir, Badal Sircar, Krishen Khanna and Prof. Sankho Chaudhuri.
Since 1999, doyens of Indian music like Dr. Kishori Amonkar, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Girija Devi, Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Rajan and Sajan Mishra, Parween Sultana, Shankar Mahadevan, Louis Banks, and Sivamani have performed to packed audiences. Not only was there an overwhelming rush from music lovers, the media coverage, especially in the electronic media, was stupendous.
Mr. Mazumdar appealed to the corporate to come forward and support this festival. He said, “You will appreciate how difficult it is to sustain this kind of a non-commercial venture, howsoever lofty the objective, without corporate patronage and help”.
Legends of India assures the corporate immense returns for the brands who shall associate with festival in view of the media coverage and goodwill generated by these festivals during the past seven years since the invitees include Industrialists, Corporate Heads, Bureaucrats, Media personalities and other opinion makers.
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