Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 21: Four day long “Poungar”–Youth Music Festival concluded today with Instrumental concert at KL Saigal Hall.
Young artists of the region made this evening a memorable with their scintillating performances of Instruments.
Pritpal Singh Betab, Prominent Urdu Poet was the chief guest, while Prof Raj Kumar presided over the function. Dr Arvinder Singh Amn, Additional Secretary J&K Academy was also present.
Pritpal Singh Betab speaking on the occasion complimented the performers, their teachers and particularly the parents who are main source of inspiration in motivating and facilitating them in the field of Instrumental art. He also applauded the efforts of J&K Cultural Academy for providing an opportunity to the new generation to excel in the respective field of music.
While delivering presidential address Prof Raj Kumar appreciated the role of Academy by organizing such type of progammes and said that Music plays a great role in order to give shape the inner and outer personality of the child.
Earlier, Dr Arvinder Singh Amn presented the welcome address and said that State Academy organized such events to provide them a platform, to exhibit their hidden talent in the various disciplines of music, folk, classical, and instruments.
He further said that Academy would organize such type of activities in the far flung areas of Jammu region as well as outside the region very soon.
The Instrumentalist who participated includes Sidharth Bogal, (Violin), Vidit Shirish (Tabla), Samyak Shirish (Violin), Aryansh Khajuria (Violin) and Bhavya Koul (Sitar). These were accompanied by Hakkam Singh (Dilruba), Amit Anand (Tabla), Karishma Bharti (Violin) and Krishan Lal (Lehara).
The proceedings of the programme were conducted by Bhupinder Singh, Choreographer and vote of thanks was presented by Popinder Singh, Editor Punjabi.
Among others present were KK Shakir, Surinder Singh Manhas, Rakesh Anand, Charan Singh, Susheel Begana, Swaran Kanta, Neeraj Verma, Shakti Kumar , Jaswant Singh, Krishan Lal, etc.
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