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| Kathmandu, Sunday March 09, 2003 Falgun 25, 2059. |
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Shanti Sangeet Yatra concludes
By Pragya Koirala
KATHMANDU, March 8 : They gathered at the
historic Durbar Square and performed their best numbers as thousands of youngsters and
elderly alike jostled to find a space to watch them perform.
With this the Shanti Sangeet Yatra 2059
(travelling peace tour), featuring the country’s leading singers and musicians, came
to an end today evening. It all started 12 days ago, when the popular artistes performed
in the eastern town of Dharan.
Then the musical tour took them to Hetauda,
Butwal, Tulsipur (Dang) and Mahendranagar. The towns represent the five developmental
regions of the country.
Artistes like Deep Shrestha, Kunti Moktan, Prem
Rana Autari, Ram Thapa, Sapana Shree, Sukmit Gurung and Nepathya took part in travelling
concert, which called for peace in the conflict-wreaked country.
Sapana Shree who had been travelling and
performing at this concert for the last 12 days said, " I think we were really
successful in establishing a kind of peace among the people living in constant fear of
violence in these parts of country we have travelled."
This concert was organised by the Himal
Association and managed by the Event Nepalaya.
" In the past seven years our people have
been depressed and down hoping for peace to restore in the country, so we took a step
towards giving them hope and encouragement through this musical liberation," said
Basanta Thapa, executive director of Himal Association.
He told The Kathmandu Post that this peace
concert was planned many months ago when the insurgency had reached its peak and the state
of emergency was imposed in the country.
Hosting the concert all these days, Ashish and
Prasan said ,"we had an overwhelming experience to travel all these places with these
senior artistes and to be between our country people especially in Dang which has been a
place of Maoist victims for some time."
They said this concert was the first step
towards peace and everyone should join hands to such peace programme that would help to
save our beautiful country.
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