| Jazz festival hits a high note |
13th Dec 2014
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The first-ever jazz music festival in Chandigarh, Go Air CHD Jazz Fest, held over three days at Whistling Duck, gave the city's residents a peep into that most intrinsically American of music genres. Chandigarh has seen an increase in the number of people willing to experiment with kinds of music in the past few years, and a jazz festival seems to be a natural extension of this. Nippun Cheema, creative head, Go Air CHD Jazz Fest-14, tellsGuardian20: "Our aim was to promote jazz and to create a cultural appetite for the arts. I am glad to say we fulfilled this aim."Nippun, a jazz musician himself, aims to establish this as a key event in Chandigarh's cultural calendar.
Ambar Mehrotra, part of the organizing team, adds, "For the first edition of the Jazz fest, we wanted to bring in bands from all over – Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Kochi, Shillong – besides established bands from New York and Canada made." Hopefully, the festival will be back next year. Sava Boyadzhiev, a Bulgarian drummer, summed up the prevailing sentiment by saying: "This was a well-organised event, coupled with a great audience. We would love to visit and perform here again next year."
http://www.sunday-guardian.com/young-restless/jazz-festival-hits-a-high-note
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