Northeast Music Event International Jazz Festival, Guwahati To Hype Poland Flavor

International Jazz Festival, Assam

In association with Ministry of External Affairs the Government of India the ICCR (Indian Council For Cultural Relations) will be for the first time conducting International Jazz Festival in Assam where top jazz musicians will partake to entertain western bent music lovers of Northeast.

Assam the ‘Gateway of Northeast’ has made this grand move of foreign inter cultural mix at one stop platform for its Jazz aficionados to relish international flavor from top artists of Poland at the venue of Srimanta Sankardeva Kalashetra, Guwahati. Sri Sankar Prasad Kakoti Bora, Regional Director, ICCR who already had handled more than thirty international shows here at Guwahati, Assam expects this festival will be a great opportunity to globalize Assamese culture. By making it a platform for northeast people to exchange their culture and music views with live interaction with foreign artists and evolve their musical perspective.

Before Assam, ICCR first conducted International Jazz Festival in 2011 in Delhi capital city of India and helped garner its popularity with wide scale of Indian music lovers. The demands of international jazz bands have grown beyond the metro cultural hub of India as its fever catching fast with Northeast music lovers.

Elevating and soothing music of Jazz was introduced in the music culture by the African American community in the late 19th century. Thus the Jazz genre grew globally. Here in India it’s been just five years of the international jazz festival but the response had always remained to be overwhelming.

International top musician’s Jazz flavor that is to catch the nerve of Northeast on 22^nd of September will be just the beginning of a never ending jazz saga. As in Northeast there are ardent western music lovers and no doubt the Poland Jazz troupe will soon soar the temperature here.

Today major global cities’ participants love to delve Indian horizon as its crowds has strong essence of Jazz music. Cultural ties have grown beyond region due to steady and frequent positioning of such international music festivals and hope to bond well with Northeast people with first launch of it in Assam. According to Jitu Haloi of ICCR, Assam such music festivals are healthy way to bridge cultural bond with varied communities of the world and in globalizing Assamese culture.

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