Durga Puja Explored Through Amazing Street Music
Kolkata Street Music Festival Season Four in association with Chapter 2 was organized recently.
This year’s festival paid tribute to the Durga Puja. With Durga Puja just around the corner, everyone in the city is all geared up to welcome the Mother Goddess. In this edition of the street music festival, the musicians showed how Durga Puja is incorporated into street music.
Shyam Sundar Co Jewellers presented this festival while the conceptualization of this event is by Sudipta Chanda.
“I am grateful that we could be part of this festival for three years. This is a festival that I am proud to be associated with. We learn so much from the streets when we walk daily. Be it Patachitra or Chhau, we learn so much from them. And this celebration is a grand initiative of this kind of music” said Rupak Saha.
Some of the performers at this amazing event were Bahurupi artists from Birbhum, Patashilpi artists from Medinipur, music by band party, and so on.
Sudipta Chanda said “We have tried to pay respect to the musicians who perform on the streets and earn their livelihood. This is a different kind of music festival. We can say that this is a celebration of life with the help of music”.
This amazing street music festival surely stirred up the Durga Puja feelings further of the people in Kolkata.
Priyanka Dutta