FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

The Symphony of Guitars
Rock Guitar Night
Talent Hunt, Competition and workshops
Performances by Guitar Innovators

India International Guitar Festival 2016, from 6th to 10th January 2016 (From 11 AM to 9 PM).

Venue: ICCR, Kolkata and G D Birla Sabhagar, Kolkata.

IIGF 2016 line up

Featured Artiste line up:

René Lacaille & Marc Laccaile (France) - music of La Reunion Island, Creole.
Daniel Shane Thomas (USA) Acoustronica Blues and beyond.
Debashish Bhattacharya with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri - (Bengal, India, World) - Indian Classical Music.
Amyt Dutta (Bengal, India) - Rock Guitar Night.
Underground Authority - (Indian Rock).
The Calcutta Chronicles Band (Anandi Bhattacharya, Nishad Pandey, Subhasis Bhattacharya, Aman Mahajan and Debashish Bhattacharya along with Marc Lacaille & Rene Lacaille) featuring the Stars of Kolkata Tanmoy Bose, Lopamudra Mitra, Srikanto Acharya.

Line up of Guest Bands:

Bart Steinhouse & Band - Jazz, Flamenco and Indian influence (Australia).
Giuliano Modarelli - one of the finest Guitar virtuoso (UK) - Indian Raga fusion.
Soichiro Gotto electric guitar (Japan).
Gal Maestro (Israel).
Performance of Young Guitar Innovators from India and abroad.
Shyamal Chowdhury lap steel guitar contemporary songs and many more.

Registration for all programme Rs 500/-

Daily tickets Rs. 100/- 200/- and Rock night 500/-

Availability of tickets for the Evening Concert

Melody Rashbehari
Anandamela Gariahat
Pratilipi Behala
Shyambazar Hosiery house Shyambazar
Online tickets available at explara.com

****Program subject to change

VASUNDHARA MAHOTSAV 2016

Hello!

Greetings from IIGF.

We are going to present the second edition of India International Guitar Festival: Vasundhara Mahotsav– a classical music carnival with guitar-stalwarts from across the world on four winter days : 6 to 10 January, 2016. Beyond the time frame of 11am to 9pm every day the festival will bring the Indian guitar enthusiasts & music lovers together under the spell of some of the most blessed performing guitarists coming from various schools of classical guitars in India & the world. Efforts are on to offer the musical fraternities of vocalists as well as instrumentalists along with large number of art inclined Kolkatans a lot more than what First Festival delivered to their acclaim.

The festival will present pioneers, doyens and maestros including Grammy Awardees & other internationally famous Guitarists and besides stage performance will engage them in diverse interactive and knowledge sharing programmes. Providing scholarship, cash, awards, stage, guitars and musical accessories to the deserving musicians in need of support is also included in the Mahotsav activities.

Your association and collaboration as a sponsor, member, participant or volunteer is what we are sincerely looking forward to make this event a gala success.

Thanking you
Tripti Bhattacharya, Convenor
Contact +91 9830204542

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

A Grammy nominee from Kolkata Debashish Bhattacharya, born in1963, is among the leading performing purveyors of Indian classical music, especially in the field of classical Guitar. Acknowledged as the pioneer of unique Kolkata Gharana in Indian Classical guitar he mastered disparate Indian classical instrumental styles as well as vocal music under his parents and some eminent music teachers in his formative years. In mid 80s of the last millennium he inclined to slide guitar and became a disciple of Brij Bhushan Kabra, the father of Indian classical guitar and Pt. Ajoy Chakrabarty. Later he turned to Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, the sarod legend for enriching his command of ragas.

Today Pt. Bhattacharya is widely acclaimed for his unique signature style. With a rare poise and talent he has been reinterpreting Indian Ragas, on Chaturangui, Gandharvi and Anandi - three specially created Indian Slide Guitars.Over the last few years he has been featured in billboard top 10, Song Line Magazine top 10, Central Asia and Asia Pacific world music top 10, Amazon top 100 albums and in National Geographic. He is also in the world’s who’s who list of artistes in 2012. Among the laurels conferred to him are Sangeet Ratna Award in 2011, BBC Planet Award in 2007, Asiatic Society Gold Medal in 2005 and President of India Award in 1984. He also won the prestigious Grammy Nomination in 2009.

Pt. Bhattacharya has been ceaselessly promoting Indian Classical music through Slide guitar by propagating the nuanced art of Indian Classical music among the slide guitarist in India and abroad. Vasundhara Mahotsav, the festival has been conceived by him as a confluence of evocative music of \Indian Ragas and Western Classical, Jazz, Blues, Rock and more – brought alive by guitar maestros from the world over.

IIGF: A GREAT EVENT WITH A BIG DIFFERENCE

Slide guitar owing its origin to Hawaiian Guitar has evolved as an instrument of Indian Classical music during last 85 years. Legends like Pt Brij Bhushan Kabra of Jodhpur and even before Pt.Nalin Majumdar of Allahabad are among the pioneers of Indian Slide Guitar. Presently Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya and Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt are furthering this evolution that has added a indelible impetus to Indian Classical music with a soaring popularity graph. Simultaneously it is equally adored to strum contemporary music. Today thousands of musicians, both famous and budding talents in India and on the foreign shores, are engaged in Indian classical and other genres of music on slide guitar.

India International Guitar Festival like its first edition in the last year will showcase some extraordinary performers from this growing pool of talents who have been expanding the horizons of music on guitar. This year more is on the card to take the festival to the next level as the master guitarists representing Indian and Western Classical, Blues, Jazz and Hawaiian music from around the world will not only perform but also deliberate in workshops, seminars and post concert media meets among others.

Mass Media, particularly electronic, digital and print are also being convincingly persuaded to play their part for giving the Festival both pre and post concert coverage in best possible ways. This festival, for its inherent magnificence, has already kindled interest among the guitar enthusiasts and music aficionados in the country and abroad. To simply put, Vasundhara Mahotsav enshrines a musical esprit de corps to unite the world through Guitar.

- Debashish Bhattacharya.

India International Guitar Festival 2016

Kolkata, 6 - 10 January 2016

Hello!

Greetings from IIGF.

Kolkata,
6 - 10 January 2016