Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Aug 31: ‘Jammu Rock Show’ a musical event organized by Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Jammu Chapter, under its Horizon Series, marked with fusion of forms, presented a mixed fare including choicest Bollywood rock numbers, Dogri folk song and patriotic songs that evoked ecstatic response from audience comprising of mostly youth brigade of the winter capital.
The programme held at Auditorium of IIIM, Jammu, featuring Anmol Amla and the Band which comprised of Sohail Mushtaq, Lead Guitar, Avnish Sharma as Bassist and John Victor, the Drummer, started with playing of a Bollywood numbers like “Inteha Ho Gayi”, “Urevasi O Urvasi”, The band’s change of genre of the songs and their presentation in Rock genre was well appreciated.
The band enthralled the audience when it presented the Dogri folk number ‘Dhaaren Dhoodan Peiyan’, using the fusion of rock and roll. The band also presented English Rock Song from the band “Guns n Roses”. The programme culminated with the instrumental in Raga Rock and created a spirit of nationalism with presentation of the Vande Maataram. The climatic moment of the today’s performance was the entire audience standing in somber respectful silence when Sohail Mushtaq played on guitar the National Anthem.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Regional Director of ICCR, Balwant Thakur informed that ICCR has been endeavoring to showcase programmes of diverse nature and Jammu Rock Show is also one of the unique programme aimed at spotting new talents seeking excellence in different fields.
He thanked the Director IIIM, Jammu Dr Ram Vishwakarma for supporting and encouraging ICCR in reaching out to National/International audiences.
Prominent among those who were present included Khalid Hussain, Naveen Chopra and Dr Surjeet Singh. The programme was ably conducted by Sumeet Sharma and was managed by Mohd Yaseen, Vishal Sharma, Reena Salathia and Meenakshi Dogra.
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