India International Guitar Festival 2015

The Alliance française du Bengale is happy to be partner of Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya on the occasion of the first edition of the India International Guitar Festival

“Vasundhara Mahotsav” India International Guitar Festival is an event of universal Guitar, with a variety of cultural activities for five days, from 7 to 11 January 2015.

The festival will be inaugurated by Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma (Santoor Maestro), Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra (Guitar Maestro), Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, Bickram Ghosh, Tanmoy Bose and the creator of this festival Debashish Bhattacharya  ON 7 JANUARY AT THE ICCR AT 6 pm.

The festival has several activities including bringing in Indian pioneers, music maestros as well as from abroad, Grammy & other International Awardee Guitarists & engaging them in different programmes. One of such is cultural exchange International night “The Guitar Carnival”.

This will bring forth Hawaiian, European & Indian Genres like Blues, Jazz, Western Classical & Fusion. We are presenting Artists like Jeff Peterson (Grammy Winner), Alan Akaka( National treasure of America Hawaiian Guitar Legend), William Cardin Blue Grass guitarist, Tanmoy Bose(Grammy Winner), Debashish Bhattacharya (BBC Awardee & Grammy Winner), and many National artists & International performers will join that night from different countries like Japan, France, USA, Australia…

To check the programme and more, please visit the Festival Website : www.iigf.co.in and the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/IndiaInternationalGuitarFestival

Here is a teaser of the event : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u2zt7jmqms