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SURTARANG [WAVES OF MELODY] BROADCAST WORLDWIDE – 4^th April, 11^th Apr, 18^thApr, 25^th Apr, 2^nd May & 9^th May ’12.

LISTEN LIVE EVERY WEDNESDAY PRESENTED BY MR SISTACHAR & MRS MAITREYEE SARCAR OF WOLVERHAMPTON, UK ON WEDNESDAYS BETWEEN 7 & 8 PM UK time & REPEAT SHOWS ON SUNDAYS BETWEEN 23:00 HRS & 00:00 HRS UK time only for the month of April via www.surtarang.co.uk & www.wcrfm.com   In future please visit the following link  https://wcrfm.com/cmsms/index/index.php?page=Programmes for correct programme schedule for the Repeat shows on Sunday evenings.

Kindly visit our website www.surtarang.co.uk and click on the top line ‘Taking raga music across the world’ and you will be connected to WCR FM. Please click ‘Listen Live’ & you will be able to hear Surtarang Broadcast via Broadband connection.

Playlist for 4^th April 2012: Double Celebrations for Surtarang Broadcast as it celebrates its 5^th anniversary in broadcasting and also celebrates 92^nd birthday of the living legend Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar from Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK. We will be featuring the living legend and the Musical Ambassador for India Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar, sarod virtuoso Pandit Rajeev Taranath, Anupriya Deotale [violin], Sudha Raghunathan [Carnatic vocal], Kaushik Bhattacharjee [vocal] & finally, a pakhawaj solo by Bhavani Shankar bet 7 & 8 pm UK time [11:30 hrs - 00:30 hrs IST]:

Playlist for 11^h April 2012: Surtarang Broadcast celebrates the birth anniversary of the legend Swara Samrat Sarod Maestro late Dr Ali Akbar Khan. We will be featuring late Dr Ali Akbar Khan, the flute virtuoso [Bansuri] late Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao, Pt Prateek Chaudhuri [sitar], Dr M L Vasanthakumari [Carnatic vocal], Rahul Sharma [santoor] & finally, a duet of shehnaai and vocal by late Bharat Ratna Aftab-E-Shehnaai Ustad Bismillah Khan & another vocal legend late Ustad Amir Khan bet 7 & 8 pm UK time [11:30 hrs - 00:30 hrs IST].

Playlist for 18^h April 2012: Surtarang Broadcast celebrates the birth anniversary of the violin legend late Lord Yehudi Menuhin. We dedicate this show to his memory as our homage. We will be playing a violin track by late Lord Menuhin with tabla legend late Ustad Alla Rakha, sarod samrat Padma Vibhushan Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, sitar maestro Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan, Lalgudi Jayaraman [Carnatic violin] & finally, Sandipan Samajpati, the young classical vocalist from Kolkata bet 7 & 8 pm UK time [11:30 hrs - 00:30 hrs IST].

Playlist for 25^thApril 2012: We will be playing a sarod track by Sudeshna Bhattacharya with Nabankur Bhattacharya on tabla, late Pandit Jagdish Prasad [vocal Thumri], Bombay S Jayashree [Carnatic vocal], Shashank Subramanium [flute], Kartik Sheshadri [sitar] & finally, Bidushi Kala Ramnath [violin] bet 7 & 8 pm UK time [11:30 hrs - 00:30 hrs IST].

Playlist for 2^nd May 2012: We will be featuring sitar maestro Ustad Irshad Khan, tabla solo by Surojato Roy, Bidushi Malini Rajurkar [vocal], Kudamaloor Janardanan [Carnatic Flute] & finally, Aftab-E-Shehnaai late Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan bet 7 & 8 pm UK time [11:30 hrs - 00:30 hrs IST].

Playlist for 9^th May 2012: We will be featuring a duet of slide guitar & Carnatic violin by Padma Sri Pt Viswa Mohan Bhatt

and Dr Mysore Manjunath [Carnatic violin],  a duet of santoor & flute by Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma [santoor] & Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia [flute] with Zakir Hussain on tabla, a duet of sitar and sarod by Shubhendra Rao [sitar] and Partho Sarodi [sarod], a percussion duet by Sukhvinder Singh [tabla] & Arjun Kumar [mridangam], a Carnatic vocal duet by Radha & Jaylakshmi & finally, by the Quintet [Pt Daya Shankar on shehnai, Pt Viswa Mohan Bhatt on slide guitar & Pt Ramesh Misra on sarengi accompanied on tabla by Pt Kumar Bose.

Surtarang is a unique broadcast in the whole United Kingdom as it only promotes pure Hindustani & Carnatic classical and semi-classical music at its very best. Please visit our blog https://surtarangthewaveofraga.blogspot.com & let us have your feedback on our broadcasts and the blog.

Surtarang shows are always repeated on Sunday evenings. You are requested to check WCR FM’s site for programme schedule for Sunday evenings. Please spread the news of Surtarang Broadcast for us and help us with publicity. Surtarang thanks the Wolverhampton City Radio [WCR FM] for repeating its broadcasts on Sundays and Indian Kalakar, HBN, THE STATESMAN, Times of India, PRAVASI TODAY, GUITAR MONK [Kolkata], THE BHAVAN [LONDON], Walsall MBC & NAAC [NOTTS] for their superb publicity.

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Culturally/musically yours,

Maitreyee,

Maitreyee Sarcar HF FRSA, [Mrs], Co-Producer & Co-Presenter of Surtarang [Waves of Melody] Broadcast, E: maitreyee@surtarang.co.uk & shish@surtarang.co.uk

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