Dumdum Marga Sangeet Utsav Committee inaugurated the 4^th edition of the two-day Dumdum Marga Sangeet Utsav, a classical music festival at Dumdum Rabindra Bhavan Surer Math.

The festival was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Minister In Charge, Department of Education Govt Of West Bengal, Bratya Basu, Honourable Speaker, Biman Banerjee, Hon’ble Member Of Parliament, Prof Sougato Roy, and Music Maestro, Hariharan.

Dumdum Marga Sangeet Utsav is conceptualized by Bratya Basu.

The first day of the event had performances by Ustad Rashid Khan and Armaan Khan on Vocals supported by Shri Yashwant Vaishnav on Tabla with Shri Vijay Mishra on Harmonium and Janab Murad Ali on Sarangi, Pandit Rahul Sharma on Santoor supported by Shri Ojas Adhiya in Tabla, Vidushi Kaushiki Chakraborty on Vocals supported by Shri Ojas Adhiya on Tabla with Janab Murad Ali on Sarengi and Shri Tanmoy Deochake on Harmonium, Pandit Bikram Ghosh on Tabla and Ustad Taufiq Qureshi on DJEMBE &Percussions with Vidwan Suresh Vaidyanathan on Ghatam and Shri Abhishek Mullik on Sitar. A Jugalbandi featuring Pandit Bickram Ghosh & Ustad Taufiq Qureshi, for the first time together, was a major attraction of the day.

The second day will feature performances by Pandit Tarun Bhattacharjee on Santoor accompanied by Pandit Ronu Majumdar on Flute and Jyotirmay Roy Chowdhury on Tabla, Pandit Sandipan Samajpati on Vocals supported by Pandit Parimal Chakraborty on Tabla and Shri Hiranmoy Mitra on Harmonium, Ustad Shahid Parvez on Sitar and Subhojyoti Guha on Tabla. The main attraction of this day will be a performance by Hariharan along with Pandit Bickram Ghosh.

The program was indeed a grand celebration of classical music.

Priyanka Dutta