Saptak Music Festival
Place : Ahmedabad,
Gujarat
Date :
1st January - 13th January 2025
Time : 8.30 pm
Venue : L.D. Arts College Campus, Opposite IIM-A, Ahmedabad
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Image Courtesy- https://www.saptak.org/
Saptak is a festival of Indian classical music usually
conducted on the First week of January in Ahmedabad every year. A
group of performers and music connoisseurs in Ahmedabad started a quest to
connect with all those who were associated with Indian classical music - as a
performer, as a student or as a rasika (listener). The initiative had the
blessings of two legends of Indian Classical Music - Pt. Ravishankar and Pt.
Kishan Maharaj. Saptak festival was inaugurated by Pt. Ravi
Shankar in 1980. The musical event is organised by a public
charitable trust which runs the Saptak School of Music. The
festival which spans the first 11 days of January, showcases the
best talents and presents as many as hundred musicians with
sincere commitment to standards.
All leading vocalists as well as instrumentalists
participate on this platform regularly. Some of the innovative
features of this festival have been instrumental and dance ensembles,
Tala Vadya Kacheri, Rajasthani and Punjabi folk music. Saptak also
tries to keep alive the fading traditions of vocal music like Thumri
and Dhrupad, and instruments like Sarangi and Pakhawaj by inviting
the older generation of artists specializing in these fields. The
festival is a celebration of music in its purest form. There are no
tickets, no reservations, and one gets to be in the hall only
through invitation. The
students of Saptak also perform in the presence of renowned
musicians, musicologists and a large appreciative audience.
Saptak Archives was set up in 2004, the silver jubilee year
of Saptak, to digitise music recordings. The recordings are enriched by a host
of other details such as artists' brief biographical sketch, the place and time
of recordings, performance details and the information about the ragas are also
stored.
Contact Address:
Saptak Archives,
Brij House, IInd Floor,
Opp. Old High Court,
Stadium Road,
Ahmedabad - 380014, Gujarat
Phone : +91-98244 12321,+91-91738
87719,+91-94282 32324
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How to get there :
Air : Sardar Vallabhai Patel International
Airport is 10km north of the Ahmedabad city and operates both national
and international flights. Indian Airlines connect Ahmedabad with Bombay, Delhi,
Bangalore, Madras, Jaipur, Indore and Kolkata. Air India has direct
flights to UK and USA from Ahmedabad. East West Airlines also
connects Ahmedabad with Bombay.
Rail : Ahmedabad is directly connected to
Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Madras, Trivandrum, Varanasi etc.
Road : Ahmedabad has a good road network.
Ahmedabad to : Baroda (Vadodara) 113 km, Mt. Abu 228 km, Udaipur 252
km, Jaipur 657 km, Bombay 545 km, Delhi 1076 km, Gandhinagar 25 km,
Modhera 110 km, Nal Sarovar 71 km and Lothal 80 km.
| Updated on 27/11/2024 |
