Under the joint auspices of South-Central Cultural Centre, Nagpur of Union Ministry of Cultural, Cultural department of Madhya Pradesh, Dhrupad Sanstha Bhopal, Department of Archeological survey of India New Delhi and local administration of Gwalior ‘International Dhrupad Samaroh’ will be organised from February 19 to 21, 2016 at Raja Mansingh Mahal in Gwalior.
The programme will be inaugurated by labour Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. The origin and development of Drupad goes to Raja Maansingh Tomar of Gwalior. He discovered this singing organizations potential at the district level and brought it into light. Today there are many Dhrupad centers in the state that works towards preserving the art of singing.
The tradition of preservation of this art of Dhrupad singing can be heard in this programme. In this programme not only national but international students will participate who had been training under Dhrupad.
Participants from Pune, Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra states along with other countries like France, Italy, Japan, Nepal and Canada will be present.
States leading Dhrupad singer Gundecha will introduce the various details about Dhrupad singing to the national and international singers and other onlookers.
The programme will start on February 19, 6 pm and it will start with the singing by Amita Sinha (Mahapatra Vishnupur), Uday Bavalkar (Kolkata), Vusifuddin Dagar (Delhi) and Tritwik Sanyal (Varanasi).
On the second day Inoveso Sou (Japan) and Vishal Bhatrei (Nepal) will present ‘jugalbandi.’ Dalchand Sharma of Delhi will present ‘pakahawaj’ and Nancy laish from Canada will play Drupad style Cello.