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Saptak Music Festival

Place : Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Date : 1st January - 13th January 2024
Time : 8.30 pm 
Venue : L.D. Arts College Campus, Opposite IIM-A, Ahmedabad
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Saptak is a festival of Indian classical music usually conducted on the First week of January in Ahmedabad every year. A group of performers and music connoisseurs in Ahmedabad started a quest to connect with all those who were associated with Indian classical music - as a performer, as a student or as a rasika (listener). The initiative had the blessings of two legends of Indian Classical Music - Pt. Ravishankar and Pt. Kishan Maharaj. Saptak festival was inaugurated by Pt. Ravi Shankar in 1980. The musical event is organised by a public charitable trust which runs the Saptak School of Music. The festival which spans the first 11 days of January, showcases the best talents and presents as many as hundred musicians with sincere commitment to standards.

All leading vocalists as well as instrumentalists participate on this platform regularly. Some of the innovative features of this festival have been instrumental and dance ensembles, Tala Vadya Kacheri, Rajasthani and Punjabi folk music. Saptak also tries to keep alive the fading traditions of vocal music like Thumri and Dhrupad, and instruments like Sarangi and Pakhawaj by inviting the older generation of artists specializing in these fields. The festival is a celebration of music in its purest form. There are no tickets, no reservations, and one gets to be in the hall only through invitation. The students of Saptak also perform in the presence of renowned musicians, musicologists and a large appreciative audience.

Saptak Archives was set up in 2004, the silver jubilee year of Saptak, to digitise music recordings. The recordings are enriched by a host of other details such as artists' brief biographical sketch, the place and time of recordings, performance details and the information about the ragas are also stored.

Contact Address: 
Saptak Archives,
Brij House, IInd Floor,
Opp. Old High Court,
Stadium Road,
Ahmedabad - 380014, Gujarat
Phone : +91-98244 12321,+91-91738 87719,+91-94282 32324

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How to get there :

Air : Sardar Vallabhai Patel International Airport is 10km north of the Ahmedabad city and operates both national and international flights. Indian Airlines connect Ahmedabad with Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore, Madras, Jaipur, Indore and Kolkata. Air India has direct flights to UK and USA from Ahmedabad. East West Airlines also connects Ahmedabad with Bombay.

Rail : Ahmedabad is directly connected to Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Madras, Trivandrum, Varanasi etc.

Road : Ahmedabad has a good road network. Ahmedabad to : Baroda (Vadodara) 113 km, Mt. Abu 228 km, Udaipur 252 km, Jaipur 657 km, Bombay 545 km, Delhi 1076 km, Gandhinagar 25 km, Modhera 110 km, Nal Sarovar 71 km and Lothal 80 km.

Updated on 27/11/2024  


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