Srikanta Acharya, Srabani Sen, Rezwana Chowdhury Bannya and more, Rabindrasangeet lovers in Jamshedpur have a reason to rejoice in January.
Well-known singers from Calcutta and Bangladesh will grace a three-day musical soiree in Jamshedpur later this month to pay tribute to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Organised by The Tagore Society, the annual Rabindrasangeet Sammelan will begin from January 27 at Rabindra Bhavan in Sakchi .
Twelve singers - eight from Calcutta and two each from Bangladesh and Jamshedpur - will perform at the event as part of an initiative to promote Tagore's music.
On Day One, Jayati Chakraborty, Manomay Bhattacharya (both from Calcutta), Rezwana Chowdhury Bannya (from Bangladesh) and Jamshedpur singer Anindita Gupta will perform. On Day Two, Bangladeshi singer Aditi Mohsin, Jamshedpur's Chandana Choudhury and Calcutta-based singers Manoj Murali Nair and Durnibar Saha will regale the audience. The last day will see Srikanta Acharya, Srabani Sen, Agnibha Bandyopadhyay and Sasha Ghoshal, all from Calcutta, mesmerise the audience.
"The crowd for the meet over the years has been decent as we have managed to invite well-known names who sing Rabindrasangeet," said Ashis Choudhury, secretary, The Tagore Society.
Although The Tagore Society organises cultural programmes throughout the year, this is the only major conference on Rabindrasangeet that is being organised for three consecutive days. The other major activities of the Society include celebrating Tagore's birth anniversary in May and the Jamshedpur Book Fair that is being organised in November every year.
Choudhury said that the conference would attract a large number of Rabindrasangeet lovers.
Choudhury said that watching new talents like Durnibar Saha, who had been a part of a reality show, perform would be a new experience.
The Tagore Society has been organising the Rabindrasangeet Sammelan since 1974, which came to a halt in the early 90s, but it again started in 2004.
"There will be a painting exhibition also. Paintings made during an art camp in the city in December will be showcased. The exhibition will have more than 40 paintings," Choudhury added.
