Shuddhasangeet Utsab begins

After a long Covid-induced hiatus, leading cultural organisation Chhayanaut welcomed back live audiences to its Dhanmondi auditorium with its traditional music festival on Thursday.

The two-day festival – Shuddhasangeet Utsab 1428 – will be held at the auditorium of Chhayanaut Sangskriti Bhaban in the capital’s Dhanmondi area. This year’s festival has been dedicated to Chhayanaut Sangeet Bidyayatan teachers, Madan Gopal Das and Satindranath Halder.

The festival welcomed the listeners at 4.30 pm on Thursday. Noted music maestroes and singers, including Khairul Anam Shakil, Rezoan Ali, Shekhar Mandal and Abhijit Kundu, will perform at the festival on Thursday till 10.30pm.

On Friday, the first session of the concluding day’s programme will begin at 9:00am and continue till 12:00 pm, which will feature the performances of Alauddin Miah, Bijan Chandra Mistry and more.

The second and concluding session will be held from 4.30 pm till 10.30 pm, featuring Asit Dey, Arpita Chakrabarti and others.

Chhayanaut restricted its all in-house live events back in early 2020 when Covid-19 first hit Bangladesh. It has been broadcasting different cultural programmes on its Facebook group and YouTube channel since then.