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The Saz-E-Bahar: Festival of Indian Instrumental Music, organised by the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA<\/a>), is back with its tenth edition. This multi-day event promises to showcase four talented instrumentalists who will be wielding a variety of instruments ranging from percussion-based ones such as drums and tabla to string instruments like the mandolin, sitar, sursingar, and mohanveena. Tabla artist Vijay Ghate, mandolin player U. Rajesh, sitar player Kushal Das and sursingar and mohanveena player Joydeep Mukherjee will be showcasing their musical prowess at the festival. To make the experience more immersive, Dr Suvarnalata Rao, Head of Programming (Indian Music) at the NCPA, will present a pre-event talk on specific instruments each day at 6 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saz-E-Bahar was held between 14 and 15 April 2023 at the Godrej Dance Theatre in National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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