Fire House set to rock today

Mail News Service Imphal, May 5 : FireHouse an American hard rock / heavy metal band formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1989 will perform tomorrow at Hapta Kangjeibung. C.J. Snare – lead vocals, keyboards , Bill Leverty , Michael Foster – drums and Allen McKenzie bass guitar arrived here today and addressed the media. […]

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Imphal, May 5 : FireHouse an American hard rock / heavy metal band formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1989 will perform tomorrow at Hapta Kangjeibung. C.J. Snare – lead vocals, keyboards , Bill Leverty , Michael Foster – drums and Allen McKenzie bass guitar arrived here today and addressed the media.
They said their message to the youth is keep practising and work hard and avoid drugs. They strongly addressed the need of using drugs as performances and talents will be washed away by resorting to such vices.
The band reached stardom during the early 1990s with hit singles like “Don’t Treat Me Bad” “Reach For The Sky” and “All She Wrote”, as well as their signature ballads “I Live My Life for You”, “Love of a Lifetime”, and “When I Look Into Your Eyes”. At the 1992 American Music Awards, FireHouse won the award for Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock New Artist.
They had performed at Dimapur yesterday and was pleased with the turnout and the reception they got at Dimapur.
In December 2004, FireHouse became the first major international rock band to play concert dates in northeast India. The band’s first Indian concert date was in Shillong, followed by two more dates in Dimapur, and Aizawl. The band’s first Indian date, in Shillong When the Maharaja of Tripura Kirit Pradyot Deb Burman invited them, took place in front of a sold out stadium crowd of over 40,000, setting a record for that city.
They said they would love to perform at other cities of India but they need invitations and arrangements. Their performance can go on for about two hours depending on the reaction and the acceptance of the people.

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Fire House set to rock today

Mail News Service Imphal, May 5 : FireHouse an American hard rock / heavy metal band formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1989 will perform tomorrow at Hapta Kangjeibung. C.J. Snare – lead vocals, keyboards , Bill Leverty , Michael Foster – drums and Allen McKenzie bass guitar arrived here today and addressed the media. […]

Mail News Service
Imphal, May 5 : FireHouse an American hard rock / heavy metal band formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1989 will perform tomorrow at Hapta Kangjeibung. C.J. Snare – lead vocals, keyboards , Bill Leverty , Michael Foster – drums and Allen McKenzie bass guitar arrived here today and addressed the media.
They said their message to the youth is keep practising and work hard and avoid drugs. They strongly addressed the need of using drugs as performances and talents will be washed away by resorting to such vices.
The band reached stardom during the early 1990s with hit singles like “Don’t Treat Me Bad” “Reach For The Sky” and “All She Wrote”, as well as their signature ballads “I Live My Life for You”, “Love of a Lifetime”, and “When I Look Into Your Eyes”. At the 1992 American Music Awards, FireHouse won the award for Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock New Artist.
They had performed at Dimapur yesterday and was pleased with the turnout and the reception they got at Dimapur.
In December 2004, FireHouse became the first major international rock band to play concert dates in northeast India. The band’s first Indian concert date was in Shillong, followed by two more dates in Dimapur, and Aizawl. The band’s first Indian date, in Shillong When the Maharaja of Tripura Kirit Pradyot Deb Burman invited them, took place in front of a sold out stadium crowd of over 40,000, setting a record for that city.
They said they would love to perform at other cities of India but they need invitations and arrangements. Their performance can go on for about two hours depending on the reaction and the acceptance of the people.

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Classical music festival from Jan 4 to 6

Mail News Service Imphal, Jan 2: Manipur State Kala Akademi, Imphal is organising a 3-Day Festival of Classical and Creative Music-2011 from 4th to 6th January, 2012, starting 3:00 p.m. daily, at the auditorium of Manipur Dramatic Union, Imphal. The main objectives of the Festival emphasize on promotion, popularization and propagation of Classical Music with […]

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Imphal, Jan 2: Manipur State Kala Akademi, Imphal is organising a 3-Day Festival of Classical and Creative Music-2011 from 4th to 6th January, 2012, starting 3:00 p.m. daily, at the auditorium of Manipur Dramatic Union, Imphal. The main objectives of the Festival emphasize on promotion, popularization and propagation of Classical Music with an academic fervor and exploration of talents of artistes of the creative music in both Matam Ishei and Orchestral Music of Manipur.
In the Hindusthani Classical Music category, altogether seven artistes are participating (three vocalists and four instrumentalists) along with their accompanists. In the Creative Music altogether forty-two artistes including the artistes of yesteryears and of the present day are participating in the Festival.i L. Birendrakumar Singh, National Akademi Awardee will inaugurate the Festival as the Chief Guest on 4th January, 2012 at 2.30 p.m. at the aforesaid venue, and Shri B. Jayentakumar Sharma, a renowned cultural personality of the State, and Prof. Jodha C Sanasam, President, AMMIK will grace over the function as President and Guest of Honour of Experts scoff at Delhi’s optimism to secure peace in region

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Gourakishore selected for tagore akademi ratna

Manipur Information Centre NEW DELHI, December 17 : Manipuri martial arts Guru G. Gourakishore Sharma was among 50 prominent performing artistes of the country selected for the Tagore Akademi Ratna which carried the purse money Rs. 3 lakhs. Karam Chaoba Singh in Sankritana (Ariba Pala), Devjani Chaliha in Manipuri dance and Abungbam Kabui in Tribal […]

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NEW DELHI, December 17 : Manipuri martial arts Guru G. Gourakishore Sharma was among 50 prominent performing artistes of the country selected for the Tagore Akademi Ratna which carried the purse money Rs. 3 lakhs.
Karam Chaoba Singh in Sankritana (Ariba Pala), Devjani Chaliha in Manipuri dance and Abungbam Kabui in Tribal dance of Manipur were among 50 eminent artistes selected for the Tagore Akademi Puraskar which carried the purse money of Rs 1 lakh.
As a part of the ongoing commemoration of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, the Sangeet Natak Akademi decided to institute a one-time honour of Tagore Samman to be awarded to 100 personalities of the age of 75 years and above who had made significant contribution in the field of performing arts. The proposal of the Akademi was approved by the National Implementation Committee headed by Union Minister of Finance Pranab Mukherjee.
The General Council of the Sangeet Natak Akademi at its meeting held on December 13 and 14 this year held here unanimouslly selected 50 emeinent personalities in the field of performing arts for the Tagore Akademi Ratna and 50 eminent personalities for the Tagore Akademi Puraskar.
Fifty selected Tagore Akademi Ratna awardees were Satguru Jagjit Singh Namdhari, Rajanikanta Rao, P V Krishnamurthy, Laxmi Narayan Garg, B N Goswami, Birendranath Datta, M Nagabhushana Sarma, Prabha Atre, Laxman Krishnarao Pandit, Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Ghulam Mustafa Waris Khan, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Ram Narayan, Sabri Khan, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Sripada Pinakapani, R.K. Sreekanthan, Nedunuri Krishna Murthy, M.S Gopalakrishnan, N Ramani, Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Guruvayur Dorai,Vanraj Bhatia, Vyjayanthimala Bali, Kalanidhi Narayanan, M K Saroja, Kumudini Lakhia, Mankompu sivasankara Pillai, Mayadhar Raut, Pasumarthy Venugopala Krishna, Maya Rao, Amala Shankar, P K Narayanan Nambiar, Satyadev Dubey, Vijaya Mehta, Rajender Nath, Rudraprasad Sengupta, Alyque Padamsee, Soumitra Chatterjee, V Ramamurthy, Mohit Chattopadhyaya, R Nagarathnamma, Gurcharan Singh Ragi, Yamunabai Waikar, Kamala Murthy, Lalit Chandra Ojha, Sonam Tshering Lepcha, Arghya Sen, Kartar Singh and G Gourakishore Sharma.
Thirteen Tagore Akademi Puraskar selected in the field of music were Shankar Lal Mishra, Sunanda Patnaik, Ganesh Prasad Sharma, Amiya Ranjan Banerjee and Babanrao Haldankar in Hindustani vocal, Faiyaz Khan in Hindustani instrumentaL (Tabla), Tanjavore Shankara Iyer in Carnatic vocal, Mavelikkara R. Velukutty Nair in Carnatic instrumental(Mridanga), S.R.G. Rajanna – Carnatic instrumental(Nagaswaram), Thirukokarnam Chelliah – Carnatic instrumental (Thavil), Mayavaram Saraswathi in Carnatic instrumental (Flute), R Visweswaran in Carnatic instrumental (Veena) and Karam Chaoba Singh in other major traditions of music-Sankirtan(Ariba Pala).
Eleven artistes selected in the field of dance were Pandanallur Swaminathan Pillai, N.S. Jayalakshmi and Rajee Narayan in Bharatanatyam, Chemencerri Kuniraman Nair and Nattuvan Paramasiva Menon in Kathakali, Devjani Chaliha in Manipuri, Bhagavatula Yagna Narayan Sarma in Kuchipudi, Rita Devi in Odissi, Haricharan Saikia in Sattriya, Patrayani Sangeetha Rao and Bhagavatula Seetarama Sarma in Music for dance.
Eight artistes selected in the field of theatre were Bijoy Mishra and K.M. Raghavan Nambiar in Playwriting, Prasad Sawkar, Chatla Sreeramulu, Sushma Seth and Jayamala Jayaram Shiledar in Acting, Madhukar Toradmal and Jalabala Vaidya & Gopal Sharman (Joint Award) in Direction.
Thirteen artistes selected in the field of traditional / folk / tribal / dance / music / theatre and puppetry were Jahoor Meer – Folk theatre of Haryana, Abungbam Kabui – Tribal dance of Manipur, Gambhari Devi – Folk music of Himachal Pradesh, Ali Mohamad Bhagat – Bhand Pather of Jammu & Kashmir, Gopiram Borgayan – Traditional music of Assam, Sumitra SEN – Rabindra Sangeet of West Bengal, Bishwa Bandhu – Folk dance of Bihar, Hiralal Yadav – Birha folk music of Uttar Pradesh, Ramsahai Pande, – Folk dance of Madhya Pradesh, Satemmeren Longkumer – Folk song of Nagaland, Radha Krishna Kadam – Folk theatre of Maharastra, Anusuya Devi – Folk music of Andhra Pradesh, Mahipat Kavi – contemporary puppetry of Gujarat.
Five artistes selected in the field of overall contribution / scholarship in performing arts were M L Varad Pande, B M Sundaram, Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere, Raja Mrigendra Singh and Neelamadhab Panigrahi.

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