SHILLONG: One of the most anticipated live music events in India – BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender – received a spirited response in Meghalaya.
Held at ‘Wenfield’ – The Festive Hills in Lad Mukhla, Jaintia Hills, tickets sold out like hot cakes on the second and final day of the festival.
Headlining acts included the highly anticipated alternative rock band Switchfoot. This was also the second time Bollywood music composer and performer Shankar Mahadevan played at the festival with his music collective ‘My Country, My Music’.
The audience also enjoyed the performance of Carnatic classical legend TM Krishna who played in Meghalaya for the first time.
The festival also hosted Zero, Pentagram and Mohini Dey including Morning Mourning, The Kush Upadhyay Group and indie dreamfolk group Whale in the Pond. Hindustani dance music producer Ritviz, The Yellow Bucket, Ape Echoes, Aarifah Rebello and Mali grabbed the attention of the crowd as well..
Local acts included performances by Summersalt, Dew drops, Dossers Urge, Sky Level, adL x k.ly & The Other Soul Collective, Tipriti Kharbangar & the Clansmen, Rain in Sahara from Assam, The Twin Effect and Avancer from Nagaland, Minutes of Decay from Manipur as well as Takar Nabam Trio and The Vinyl Records from Arunachal Pradesh. Festival dirertor Supreet Kaur said that 2018 has been the most successful edition in the state so far as excited fans thronged the various stall to shop, eat, drink, play games and add to the Weekender Experience.
The festival now travels to Lucknow, Chandigarh and Jaipur before it reaches Pune on December 7 where there will be highly anticipated sets by American guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani, Irish band God is an Astronaut, progressive metal act The Contortionist, popular electronic artists FKJ and NIghtmares on Wax, Indian classical musician Shubha Mudgal, hip-hop act Divine and many more.
