17th October, 2002
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting  


AIR ORGANISES ‘AKASHVANI SANGEET SAMMELAN-2002’


All India Radio (AIR) will organise Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan concerts on 19th October, 2002 at 17 different cities throughout the country. The concerts organized by Director General, AIR, will feature eminent Hindustani and Karnatic music artists. One concert of classical music will be held in Delhi on 19th October, 2002 featuring violin recital by A. Kanyakumari, Tabla Solo by Pandit Kishan Maharaj and vocal recital by Pandit Jagdish Prasad.

The other places where the concerts will be held are Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Jalandhar, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Patna, Pondicherry, Port Blair, Agra, Allahabad, Ernakulam, Mangalore, Tirupathi and Visakhapatnam.

The recordings of Sangeet Sammelan concerts will be broadcast on national hook-up from 16th November, 2002 to 22nd December, 2002 (except December 3, 2002) from 10.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. daily.