GEAR UP FOR A MUSICAL MELANGE
The fourth week of HT Friday Jam Season 5 will feature a mix of genres such as Sufi and rock
Pulsating, energetic, and rocking — that is how the people of Delhi-NCR described the last three weeks of the city’s biggest music festival — Hindustan Times DLF Cyber Hub Friday Jam Season 5, powered by Too Yumm and Nearbuy.com. With power-packed performances by music stars, such as the singer Guru Randhawa, and bands Indian Ocean and Euphoria, in the past three weeks, the upcoming weeks promise to be all this and more.
Tonight, expect a fusion of traditional Hindustani vocals with jazz, blues, and rock music by the famed band Nasya, that has won hearts in the country and abroad.
“We have performed for Hindustan Times before. It’s always nice to be a part of HT Friday Jam. It’s exciting for all of us since the audience is so nice.The show is going to be a crazy one, and performing with HT, at a venue like Cyber Hub, is the best combination,” says the band’s frontman, Kunal Wason.
Ready with a line-up consisting of Bollywood, folk, and Punjabi music, Kunal adds, “Since the audience is diverse, we’ll keep the set list accordingly. For the corporate crowd, we’ll play some stress-busting Sufi songs. For the youth, it’ll be Bollywood and rock songs, and entertaining numbers such as Sayonee.”
He credits the band’s versatility to the diverse musical background of its members. “Everyone in the band comes from a different background. The percussionist (Pankaj Beniwal) and flautist (Sujeet Gupta) come from a classical Indian Gharana. The folk, Punjabi, and Sufi influence comes through me, because I’m from a Punjabi background. The guitarist (Mohan Kumar) and drummer (Pawan Mundephi) have a background in Western
music,” says Kunal.