Music - 9

To promote relations between India and Pakistan, a unique concert called Ek Shaam Rashtriya Ekta Ke Naam is being held in Mumbai on September 25. The highlight is that Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali will join Mumbai-based Anup Jalota on stage. The show is being organised by the Yuva Foundation, with support from the makers [...]

A group of traditional ‘Manganhaar’ singers from Thar and Cholistan gave a captivating performance at the NIC building auditorium in Islamabad on Sunday evening. The singers from remote deserts of Thar and Cholistan, accompanied by their own set of musicians, seemed confident and eager to present their talent to the maximum on their maiden appearance [...]

A budding artist, Gulzar of Umerkot, won the first position in a singing competition, part of the Maganhaar Music Show, organized on the concluding day of a cultural festival held at a local hotel late Tuesday night. The second position was secured by Sabira Sultana of Ranipur whereas a young duo, Long Khan and his [...]

Folk musicians and singers from Thar’s Manganhaar community enthralled audiences with their traditional performance at the Manganhaar Music Festival here on Tuesday and impressed upon them that folk music and mystic poetry impact people and communities from within their soul. The festival was kicked off with a performance by Chanesar who played ‘Khamach’, an indigenous [...]

It isn’t every day that Lahore gets to hear jazz live, up-close and personal. So predictably, the garden at the residence of the US Consulate’s principle officer was near-packed on the evening of September 5 and both the connoisseurs and the less initiated were draped in anticipation of the performance of the Chicago Jazz Quartet [...]

This is for the first time ever that the common man in Pakistan will have the opportunity to directly be scouted into Bollywood. Wannabees has been presented by Saha Dubai Eggs and is supported by Panasonic and Arabian Automobiles, Altima cars in association with Hum FM and Red Square. As an Indo – Pak venture, [...]

A few days ago, a party was hosted to launch Daawat-e-Zaika, a Pakistani food festival at Hotel Marine Plaza. Co-hosts Pakistan International Airlines gifted packets containing CDs of popular Pakistani artistes like Mehdi Hassan, Farida Khanum and Iqbal Bano. Over the years, Pakistan has had some extraordinary singers. Certain artistes have excelled in the field [...]

In recent weeks, a huge controversy has raged around Junoon. Though notoriety is nothing new for the band, this time matters took a serious turn as speculation concerning the group’s break-up threatened to transform into cold, hard truth with the exit of bassist Brian O’Connell. Despite Salman Ahmad’s silence at the time, it was crystal [...]

It was an evening to remember. An evening, which was filled with nostalgia, eventually gave way to hope – hope for eternal peace in South Asia, and in rest of the world. The occasion – launch of “Ghoom Taana”, a semi-autobiographical video, directed by Saqib Malik, and features Salman Ahmad, lead singer of internationally acclaimed [...]

Seven years ago on this day, the music world lost a great exponent of qawwali – the unparalleled Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan . On 16th of August 1997, Nusrat passed away at the age of 49, much to the shock of his fans in Pakistan and India. This was about the time when Ustad’s [...]