The News Review:
- Jazz festival set to draw crowds
- International Film Festival of India to kick off in Goa tomorrow
- Ellora-Ajanta festival in Aurangabad
- A low-key blues festival or a family reunion?
- North Eastern crafts festival begins at Nellore
- A festival to jazz up the Capital
Jazz festival set to draw crowds
Jakarta Post – Nov 22, 2007
Junaidi The Jakarta Post JakartaCarrying the slogan “”Paint the Town Jazz”" JakJazz 2007 is ready to shake up Jakarta with three days of jazz music starting this Friday. Promoted as the biggest musical event of the year’s end the festival is set to feature dozens of local and international performers across seven stages at Central Jakarta’s Istora Senayan stadium. “”This year we will present more varied performances”" JakJazz founder and guitar maestro Ireng Maulana said at a press conference Wednesday. Big names in jazz including Spyro Gyra Kool and the Gang Don Grusin the Bad Boys from the U.
International Film Festival of India to kick off in Goa tomorrow
Times of India – Nov 22, 2007
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khanwill inaugurate the 38th edition of the festival that will showcase 60 awardwinning feature films from 40 countries. Romanian film Four months ThreeWeeks and Two Days the winner of GoldenPalm Award Festival De Cannes 2007 will be the opening film to be screened atDinananth Mangeshkar Auditorium Kala Academy the venue for the inauguralfunction. Manipur will make acome back to the festival after a gap of 11 years. In the foreign film category14 feature films from Asia Africa and Latin America will be showcased in thecompetitive section Celebrating India’s 60 yearsof independence a special section is programmed which will exhibitdocumentaries from films division besides feature films from three languages.
Ellora-Ajanta festival in Aurangabad
Hindu – Nov 22, 2007
Code Ends here –>. Artistes of national and international repute like ghazal king Ghulam Ali sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Pandit Prabhakar Karekar will present their recitals on the first three days of the festival. The local and regional artistes would get a chance to showcase their talents on the last day – November 26. The preparations are in full swing to make the programme a huge success. A stage is being prepared keeping in view the dance performance of artist Sharwari Mukharji who will be performing with a 80-member troupe organisers said.
A low-key blues festival or a family reunion?
Toronto Star – Nov 22, 2007
Greg Quill ENTERTAINMENT CLUMNIST He performs rarely these days mostly at house concerts and off-the-radar folk dives well outside Toronto but there was a time when Michal Hasek was almost a household name on Toronto’s roots music circuit both as a solo act specializing in free-form blues and as leader of the band Sundog a rambling mostly acoustic country-folk outfit that specialized in vivid story songs and pointed commentary. Twenty years – and a couple of careers – later Hasek is still playing still writing still recording still planning a comeback but he’s not easy to spot. This weekend’s 14th annual Beaches Blues Festival is a rare opportunity to catch his act. "It’s about the only regular gig I do in Toronto" Hasek said yesterday in the kitchen of his North Toronto home. "I’ve been doing the Beaches Blues Festival every year since it started.
North Eastern crafts festival begins at Nellore
Hindu – Nov 22, 2007
A splendid collection of handicrafts handloom products khadi printed household textiles sarees Assam cane furniture and bamboo basketry items which have been brought from North Eastern region and other parts of the country. discount Besides a 20 per cent discount is being offered on all handlooms and 10 per cent on all crafts at the exhibition-cum-sale counters at the crafts festival which will be on till December 3.
A festival to jazz up the Capital
Hindu – Nov 22, 2007
NEW DELHI: A wide array of musicians from across the world several of whom are household names will attend the three-day Jazz Utsav beginning here on Friday. To be organised at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) auditorium on Tansen Marg the festival since 1980s – when it was known as Jazz Yatra – has been one of the high points of the cultural calendar of both Delhi and Mumbai. Previously the festivals had featured names like Sonny Rollins Stephan Grappelli Trilok Gurtu and Freddie Hubbard who had enthralled the audiences. “The Utsav this year has an equally formidable global line-up with music presentations from the traditional players like the Chet Baker Tribute from Norway and Jake Fryer and the London Bebop Collective to the more contemporary ones like the Belgian vocalist Sascha Ley and the interesting Afro-Latin combine of Ba Banga Nyeck a balafon player from Cote d’lvoire and Wanayran Angerer a singer from Honduras. There are three Indian bands participating in the Utsav this year” said former Attorney-General of India Soli J.