To celebrate the 44th Victory Day of Bangladesh, a musical evening by Raghab Chatterjee from India and Band Chirkutt will be held today at 6:30pm at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre, Dhanmondi.
Raghab Chatterjee started his journey in music as a guitarist at the age of nine. He initially started learning from his mother Shila Chatterjee, a fine classical singer. Thereafter he trained under Dr Amya Ranjan Banerjee and finally under Guru Pt Ajoy Chakraborty for six years at ITC/SRA. Recently he is taking lessons from Ustad Rashid Khan. His Bengali albums are “Bhorer Alo,” “Tumi Nei Bole,” “Sharodia, Amaar Akash,” “Aat Range,” “Bhubanamohini,” “Shamiana, Nameplate,” “Srot” etc.
“Chirkutt’ recently participated in the 8th South Asian Band Festival in New Delhi, and also performed at Rashtrapati Bhavan before the President of India Pranab Mukherjee.
The band’s fame has transcended the borders of Bangladesh and has reached foreign shores, courtesy their performances at several reputed international music festivals, such as the India Music Week and the Jaffna Music Festival in Sri Lanka where they represented new dimensions of Bangladeshi band music to critical acclaim. Band Chirkutt released their first international music video “Trams and Empty Streets” from Oslo, Norway. Their music videos have been featured also on MTV India. Last year, they won the RTV Best Band Award 2012.
