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AR Rahman to headline Sydney Festival 2010 | Oscar winner musician AR Rahman will headline the world famous Sydney Festival 2010 in Australia on January 16. Rahman's two-and-a-half hour free and exclusive music-dance performance will also see over 40 Bollywood dancers, singers, and musicians at outdoor Parramatta Park near Sydney, starting 7-30 pm. Festival website says about Rahman: "Sydney
Festival is proud to celebrate this inspiring and multidimensional artist". New
South Wales Premier and Festival President Nathan Rees reportedly described Rahman
as "without doubt one of the world's great talents". Acclaimed Indo-American statesman
Rajan Zed has applauded Rahman for creating a bridge between the music of east
and west and for strengthening the worldwide market and stature of Indian music.
Forty-three Rajasthani musicians from India will also stage during this Festival
"The Manganiyar Seduction" concert in a whimsical custom-built 'magic box'. Directed
by Roysten Abel, the repertoire ranges from ballads about kings to mystics written
Sufi songs and songs marking marriage-birth-feasts-rains; and the ensemble spans
three generations. Showing multi-cultural Australia, Festival First Night will
include music-dance performances by "Bobby Singh & Friends", including Australia's
leading table player Bobby Singh, Sarangan Sriranganathan, The Bollywood Sensations,
Rasa Duende, etc. |
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