Daily Times

LAHORE: Pakistan’s leading comprehensive music symposium Lahore Music Meet (LLM) announced the performance line-up for their fourth edition which is scheduled to take place at the Alhamra Arts Council in Lahore on January 6-7, 2018.

The two-day festival aims to bring together musical minds from across Pakistan for a celebration and critique of music. According to organizers, this year the festival will be headlined by leading Indie folk-rock band Sikandar Ka Mandar, Balochi folk artist Akhtar Channalon on Day-1 and Pakistan’s Qawwali maestros Farid Ayaz and Abu Muhammad Qawwals and Indie Band Taka Tak will perform on Day-2 as part of the festival’s indoor showcase.

The outdoor showcase will feature a diversity of artists who encapsulate various musical spectrums of Pakistan. These include Mauj, Roots, Wisdom Salad, Zohaib Bilal, Alien Panda Jury, SameenQasim & Co, Sunny Khan Durrani, Bayaan, Sami Amiri, FazalJatt, Bushra Marvi, Shorbanoor and Pepsi Battle of the Bands winner Kashmir. For its fourth iteration, LLM received over 200 applications from across the country for the live performance sessions which were then crafted into a carefully curated list by co-founders Natasha Noorani and Zahra Paracha representing an interesting blend of pop, rock, folk and rap music from around the country.

The Lahore Music Meet team consists of festival directors Natasha Noorani and Zahra Paracha with Sana Nasir as lead designer and Munizeh Sinai as the programming manager. The core team has previously worked closely with both mainstream and independent artists, filmmakers, producers and a collection of industry experts to set up a series of seminars to stimulate a variety of discussions on music and relevant topics such as; producing music for films, disseminating music in the present digital age and our folk music traditions.

LLM in its fourth year now is a well-established one of its kind platform for all activities pertaining to music performance, enterprise, education and academia with the ultimate goal of encouraging talents and fostering relationships between individuals within the music fraternity.