Namma
Bengaluru!
Bangalore Harmonica Lovers in association with Sonido Musicals
organised “Bangalore Harmonica Festival”, the first ever harmonica festival in
Bangalore with the sole aim of promoting the harmonica. This event was
dedicated to Shri Milon Gupta-The Father of Indian Harmonica.
This day-long harmonica festival started with the lightening
of lamp by Chief Guest film
actress Shubha Poonja, Shri Chenraj Jain, Shri Saket Jalan of Sonido Musicals
and the core members of HaLoH Mr Vinayak and Ramana K.
Carnatic Flutist Shri
Mysore A. Chandan Kumar came as a Special Guest to this event
Mr Debashish Dutta, seniormost core member of Bangalore Harmonica
Lovers navigated the event while Mr Sanjay Datta was the anchor.
There was an interesting audio-visual presentation consisting of
various subjects related with harmonica like -Early History and development of
harmonica, Indian harmonica history,Types of harmonicas, Vintage and rare
harmonicas, World popular harmonica players in different genres..(videos played in the Gallery embedded here for the benefit of visitors of this blog)
Larry Adler
Jerry Murad's Harmonicats
Most popular
Indian harmonica players-past and present
Milon Gupta
Sumanta Basu
Gautam Choudhury
Women in harmonica
Michal Adler
Christeller Berthon
Women in Indian
Harmonica
Dr Babita Basu
Children in harmonica
Children in Indian harmonica.
Shubronil
Harmonica recitals started with “Hamsanadha” a 50 Children's
choir from Ravi Shankar Vidya Mandir, Vidyaranyapura whose performance left the
audience spellbound.
This was followed by
Carnatic Classical by Saitejas Chandrashekhar.
There was a short
workshop on types of harmonica and routine maintenance of harmonica using
Audio-Video presentation by Shri Debashish Dutta.
There was a narration
on the versatility of the instrument along with demonstrations by members of
Bangalore Harmonica Lovers. Videos showing Symphony, Trio and One-man show were
played for the audience.
One-man shows were presented by Bangalore Harmonica Lovers Stany Prasanna, Ishan
Bakshi, Hari Shankar and Mr Allen Rego.
Later, there was an introduction on Western Music-Blues on Harmonica by Shubham Harnal, "by2blues" Vasudev Prabhu and Anant Menon.
This was followed by a
narration on Bollywood songs using harmonica.
There were
performances by club members on Bollywood tracks.
Deepak Tahilramani
Karthik
CM Khare
S J Prasanna
Ramana
Remaining videos will be posted soon.. please watch for the space!
Not only was the program Informative and Entertaining but it also involved the audience by conducting an interesting QUIZ by Shri Debashish Dutta on entire day’s proceedings and the winners got precious gifts like Hohner harmonicas, Harmonica Educational books and Commercial Harmonica CDs by popular Indian artistes.
Initiators of Bangalore Harmonica Club Mr Avinash Kulkarni and Mr
Kapilesh were honored with flower bouquets.
Bangalore Harmonica Lovers conveyed their special thanks to Messrs
Debashis Dutta,Sanjay Datta,Ashok SenGupta and Nidhi Mohta with out whose
involvement this programme wouldn’t have been a Grand Success.
HaLoH congratulates Bangalore Harmonica Lovers for successfully conducting the program and wishes them a grand success in all their future endeavours.
HaLoH congratulates Bangalore Harmonica Lovers for successfully conducting the program and wishes them a grand success in all their future endeavours.
We Breathe Harmonica!
2 comments:
Simply Gr8. Best wishes.
Thank you so much for such a beautiful article.. You guys have also made this a success. Without everybody's effort into the various harmonica groups, we wouldn't have been able to achieve this milestone. A special thanks to Ramana Sir and Vinayak Sir, for coming all the way from Hyderabad to encourage us!
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