3rd Annual Guru M.L. Koser Music and Dance Festival is to be held on 14th & 15th September, 2015 at 6:30 pm onwards, Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, (In COLLABORATION with IHC). The two-day festival will feature eminent artists of the country namely Pandit Shubhendra Rao & Saskia Rao(Jugalbandi Sitar+Xylo), Mahua Shankar (Kathak) accompanied by Ustad Akram Khan on Tabla on 14th September and Kalpana Jogelkar (Vocal) accompanied by Pt. Debasish Adhikary on Tabla and Prativa Panda & troupe (Odissi) on 15th September 2015.
About Pracheen Kala Kendra
Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh is the premier educational organization which is doing yeoman service for the promotion, preservation and dissemination of Indian classical arts of music, dance and fine arts (painting) since its inception in 1956.
Pracheen Kala Kendra, having its Headquarters in Chandigarh, an enormous sister set-up in Mohali (Punjab), a zonal office for Eastern India at Kolkata, Liaison offices at Bhubaneswar (Odisha) and at Ludhiana (Punjab), a newly regional office opened in New Delhi is one of the oldest, premier and prestigious organizations of the country which is imparting quality education and training in the subjects of Indian Classical Music including Carnatic Music (Vocal & Instrumental), Classical Dances (e.g. Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Odissi Dance, etc.) and Fine Arts (Painting) for the last 58 years.
Established in 1956 and registered under Registration of Societies Act, 1860, the Kendra, over the years, has achieved unprecedented success in its defined goals and identically it is functioning on the pattern of Open University of performing and visual arts.
