Acknowledged as India’s largest music concert tour, Durga Jasraj’s ‘Idea Jalsa – Music for the Soul’ will seek to enthral the city’s music lovers at Shilpakala Vedika auditorium here on Friday. The concert will have percussionists Selva Ganesh and Pete Lockett in the opening act followed by Roopkumar Rathod and Deepak Pandit in fusion.
Durga Jasraj of ‘Art And Artistes’ said the event, organised by the country’s first multimedia music programming company, has embarked upon a 12-city Indian music concert tour covering various genres during the journey. “Idea Jalsa is a platform that brings together legends from the Hindustani classical music, budding musicians and music lovers together to celebrate music,” she said.
In the last nine years, the Idea Jalsa has held over 7,000 performances in 200 different genres and reached more than 30 crore people, Durga Jasraj said.
“Coming back to Hyderabad is nostalgia for me since it started here, and we are back after nine years,” she told a press conference here on Thursday.
‘Incredible experience’
British percussionist Pete Lockett described the tour as an amazing and incredible experience and said that the depth of music tradition and talent here always attracted him to India.
“Indians are lucky indeed for it is one of the few countries with such deep tradition well preserved,” he said. While most countries were sold out to modernist and popular music, very few retained and preserved tradition, he remarked.
Selva Ganesh lauded the efforts of Durga Jasraj in endeavouring to take classical music to small cities and towns and not restricting events to big and metro cities.
Executive Chairman of Telangana State Tourism Development Corporation G. Kishan Rao, who is also Shilparamam Special Officer, assured all possible support from the government and urged the organisers to consider hosting such concerts at cities such as Warangal too.
