Culture Minister Dr. Sadho to inaugurate Silver Jubilee Year’s Nimar Utsav
Monday - February 4, 2019 1:45 am ,
Category : MADHYA PRADESH
Renowned Play Back Singer Udit Narayan to perform on inaugural day
Bhopal: Culture Minister Dr. Vijayalakshmi Sadho will inaugurate 3-day Nimar Festival at Devi Ahilya Ghat, Maheshwar in Khargone district on February 4. This is the Silver Jubilee of the festival based on traditional performing arts and literature, being organized from the year 1994. The Festival will be inaugurated with a performance by famous playback singer Udit Narayan after Maa Narmada Maha Arati and Shankh dhwani. Same day, a boat decoration competition will also be held at the Ahilya ghat from 3 pm.
The festival being organized by the Adivasi Lok Kala evam Boli Vikas Akadmi, Madhya Pradesh Sanskriti Parishad in collaboration with the Department of Culture and the Madhya Kshetra Sanskritik Kendra, Nagpur will conclude on February 6. The performances on February 5 include Nimadi songs by Babulal Parihar and team from Badwaha and Baiga tribal dance, Gangaur and Matki folk dance of Madhya Pradesh, Dandiya Ras and Garba of Gujarat, Holi and Peacock of Uttar Pradesh, Lingo of Maharashtra, Gaur Madiya of Chhattisgarh, Kampu Koya of Andhra Pradesh and Dappu dance of Telangana. Vishal Kochle of Maheshwar will present folk song at Qila Parisar from 11 am. Kunwar Uday Singh 'Anuj', Harish Dubey, Shishir Upadhyay, Atul Dave, Vinod Chavre 'Lahiri', Narendra Joshi, Deepak Pagare, Vishnu Phagna, Jayashree Upadhyay and Virendra Chourey will participate in a “Janpadiya Kavita Ki Subah’ programme to be organized on the same morning.
On the closing day, Manisha Shastri and group will present Nimadi songs, Namami Sonkia will present devotional songs and Mira Das and group will give an Odissi dance performance. The same day, Rahat Indori, Vishnu Saxena of Aligarh, Sampat Saral of Bikaner, Sita Sagar of Gaziabad, Sandeep Sharma of Dhar and Sabiya Asar and Vijay Tiwari of Bhopal will take part in a Kavi Sammelan. A wrestling competition will also be held in School of Excellence ground from 10 a.m. Entry is free to the festival.-Window To News
