On Saturday all roads led to the Lariti Performing Arts Centre, Mawkasiang where world renowned disc jockey Alan Walker performed in the open premises of the Centre which was well decorated for the event. Alan Walker is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. 27 year old Alan Walker began making music around 2012 and is today one of the world’s biggest contemporary musical names. The over ten thousand strong music-loving crowd was over the moon.
On this spectacular occasion Alan Walker sprung a surprise when he announced that the Shillong Chamber Choir would be joining the stage. Speaking to The Shillong Times, Willam R Basaiawmoit said, “What a thrill it was to have shared the stage and music with one of the world’s biggest contemporary musical names – Alan Walker, and that too in our very own Shillong. When we heard the collaboration was becoming a reality where we were to do a live collaboration on his latest single called, ‘Children Of The Sun’ which featured Pritam and Vishal Mishra, the days that followed went by in a blur. Starting from our teams being in touch with one another, to our Riewbankit and Iba tirelessly writing the vocal arrangements for our rendition, to hearing Alan loving our version, to working with the wonderful kids (youngest of which was 5), to the rehearsals and finally to have been welcomed on stage to such a big cheer in front of ten thousand people was all such a buzz and an exhilaration.”
The other Choir members were equally ecstatic. They said, “It truly was an honour to have been the only guest artists on Alan Walker’s set and to have represented our people and region on a version of his latest single, led it from being a show with so much energy and joy to us being grateful and emotional for such a unique opportunity. We’d like to thank Alan Walker and his team once again and for the organisers in getting together such a great show for our people to experience.”
The Shillong Chamber Choir has been performing across the country and in different events and also on home ground but this one with Alan Walker was a very special one and they are grateful for it.