MUMBAI: Pancham Nishad Creative’s presents ‘Aarohi’ a unique event featuring the promising faces of Indian Classical Music. Aarohi a two-day festival is scheduled on the 12-13 May 2017 at the Y.B. Chavan Auditorium, Nariman Point, from 6 pm onwards.

‘Aarohi’, now in its 16th year, is an annual event since the year 2002, is a distinctive concept of featuring the rising stars of ‘Hindustani and Carnatic Sangeet’. The objective of the festival is to introduce fresh and unknown faces, yet immensely talented and refined youngsters of Indian Classical Music. The event brings forth, this bundle of talent on a common platform to give the music lovers a glimpse of the bright future of the Indian Classical Music.

The first day of the festival will highlight performances by budding artistes like Kedar Kelkar (Vocal), Varadraje Bhosale (Sitar), and Bhagyashree Deshpande (Vocal). The second day of the festival will observe performances by artistes like Deepika Bhide Bhagwat (Vocal), Yadnesh Raikar (Violin) and Kaustuv Kanti Ganguli (Vocal).

On this occasion, Pancham Nishad Creative Director Shashi Vyas stated, “Classical Music has a niche audience. While it is a known secret that most people prefer to attend concerts of maestros, the recent trend shows that listeners are also keen to hear the young talent. Therefore it is but natural for Pancham Nishad to provide a befitting platform like ‘AAROHI’ to these young rising stars of Indian Music.”

In association with Rangaswar, a cultural wing of Y. B. Chavan Pratishthan, the event is sponsored by Tata Capital and Union Bank of India.