Mark your calendars: Lahooti Melo to lapse come January
Lahooti Melo is approaching to run from Jan 21 to Jan 22, 2017. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI: Back in April, Hyderabad hosted a Lahooti Melo, a biggest song festival ever. Initiated by The Sketches front male Saif Samejo, a eventuality captivated an suddenly outrageous throng and even brought together a large partial of a Pakistani song industry.
Pleasantly astounded and speedy by a good response, Samejo has now announced a second complement of a event, that will be hold from Jan 21 to 22, 2017, during a Hyderabad Club.
Talking to The Express Tribune, a Jamshoro-based thespian pronounced a festival is self-financed, with some support from a Sindh Culture department. The suspicion stemmed from Samejo’s weekly Lahooti Sessions.
“When we was younger, we used to have a lot of festivities that we looked brazen to. There was this clarity of society among a people of Sindh. No one cared about sacrament or expel or anything and they would all get together to only sing and dance. That was a beauty of Sindh,” Samejo recalled, when asked about a proclivity behind organising an eventuality of this scale. “Now, things have altered and we wanted to move that clarity of village behind and give people something to demeanour brazen to.”
Samejo hopes to make Lahooti Melo an annual song festival though that depends on either it is possibly or not. While a initial festival brought together 73 artists, including mainstream and folk as good as inland musicians from all over Sindh, this year, there are skeleton to entice general artists as well. “I designed to move musicians from all SAARC countries. We had invited artists from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Maldives though a moving conditions between India and Pakistan means a skeleton won’t come to fruition,” common Samejo. “But notwithstanding that, we still have 60 artists reliable and there are still a few months to go so let’s keep a fingers crossed.”
One of a pivotal aims of a festival aims is to move a folk and inland musicians of Sindh to a fore. “The suspicion is to strew spotlight on artists who indeed need it, not those who are already popular. There will be determined artists from a attention though we wish to move a inland musicians like Bhagat Bhooro La in a limelight as well,” pronounced Samejo. “No one knows about Bhooro though that vernacular hold he brings is unmatchable and there are many some-more artists like that.”
Samejo also spoke of how a atmosphere and a venue of a festival would assistance move a artists closer to their audience. “There is no separator between celebrities and a assembly here. we had sensitive a musicians that there would be no such thing during Lahooti Melo. They are not celebrities in this festival though artists interacting with people,” he explained. “Even during a final festival, everybody was roaming around and a throng was carrying a good time assembly a artists and enjoying a music. It was like a large community.”
As a musician himself, Samejo naturally has copiousness to contend about a Pakistani song industry. When asked what he suspicion about ordering a song industry, he responded, “It’s really formidable to do that, deliberation everybody in a attention is money-driven nowadays. We contingency put a concentration behind on song and a adore for it.”
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 17th, 2016.
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Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1200101/mark-calendars-lahooti-melo-return-come-january/