Indian School Darsait all set to host Agam band

Lifestyle Sunday 03/April/2016 09:17 AM
By: Times News Service
Indian School Darsait all set to host Agam band

Indian School Darsait is a community school that has been proudly serving the Indian diaspora for last two decades. It is affiliated to CBSE and accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Education & Training (NABET) for Quality School Governance.

The school, with the support of parent community and well-wishers, has been organizing fund raising programme for the development of the school, supporting students who economically deprived, funding to the Special Education Center and installing modern facilities for the quality education.

The Press Meet was held at the School Auditorium on 2nd April 2016 to announce this year’s Musical Night “SYMPHONEVE 2016”. It was attended by the President of the SMC, Mr. Abdul Rahim Kasim; Mr.Biju Samuel, Convener; Mr. Jaikish Pavithran, Member of SMC & Chairman of this year’s Carnival Core Committee, Dr.Sridevi P. Thashnath, Principal and the Orbit Event Management MD Mr. Ramesh Gopalan along with other Core Committee members including the parents and teaching staff.
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Giving a brief about the earlier events, the school officials informed that the concept of a fund raising programme for the development of the school evolved in the year 2012 and until 2014 school conducted this event in the form of Annual Carnival. The school presented a great musical programme in 2015 titled ‘Resonance with Balabaskar’, renowned Musician which stole the heart of the music lovers of Muscat.

This year, the school is holding its Annual Fund Raising Programme as a musical evening with Agam band, titled ‘Symphoneve 2016’ at the Qurum Amphitheatre, on 29 April 2016. Agam is a Bangalore-based Contemporary Carnatic progressive rock band. The current lineup of the band, formed in 2003, consists 7 male musicians who were identified by the maestro musician A.R Rahman in a band hunt called “Ooh la lala,” hosted by Sun TV. Their success in the show brought them into the mainstream and led to many concerts and music festivals in India as well as abroad. They also performed in the second season of Coke Studio on MTV India.

The preparations for the programme, being organized under the aegis of Orbit Event Management, are well under way. The responses from the parent community and well-wishers have been very positive and encouraging. ISD family is gearing up to make this event a memorable one for music lovers and well-wishers. The media, both print and visual, have been very supportive of all the educational endeavours of the school.

The school officials reposed their faith and said “We are convinced that the success of this event will also depend on the wholehearted cooperation of the media”.