Dec 01 2024 to Dec 01 2024 8:30 p.m.

Price: 0 onwards Book/Buy

Where

Freedom Park

Seshadri Road, Gandhi Nagar, Bengaluru 560009

Event Description

Kantha is the flagship subfestival at BLR Hubba 2024- 16 days of music at the historic Freedom Park, celebrating music from across Asia that breaks boundaries. Between 30th November and 15th December, weekends will see 3 artists play each day, while weekdays will have 2 artists each day.
 
Booking this event allows you to enjoy all performances on the 1st of December- to check out all the performances at Kantha and reserve your spot, please visit kantha.blrhubba.in. 
 
About the Performance
 
In a time where any experimentation with music, especially Hindi Film music, meant simply remixing popular tunes to club beats, Nikhil Mawkin envisioned an amalgamation of two seemingly different genres: Hindi Film music and Jazz. It was 2011 in India, and what started as an experiment became a successful project that would bring back to life some of the evergreen melodies from what is commonly referred to as the "Golden Era of Bollywood".  
 
Since then, Bollyjazz has evolved through a vast repertoire of handpicked, relatable melodies, set to arrangements around  popular jazz rhythms such as Samba, Bossa Nova, Swing, Funk, etc., allowing musicians to improvise and provide their own expression to a familiar tune.

Bollyjazz has performed widely in festivals and venues around India, Mexico and Thailand like Rendezvous Festival Delhi, Serendipity Arts Festival Goa, Tablu Festival Jaipur, Jaipur Literature Festival, Kamani Auditorium, Akshara Theatre, Agora de la Ciudad in Xalapa, Mexico and JacoJazzy Cafe to mention few.

Always trying to find new ways to bring an authentic Jazz setting to this music, Bollyjazz presently has become a global brand that is sharing and exchanging musical ideas between Mexico and India, where musicians from all over the world collaborate, making Bollyjazz a genre in itself.