Come November 16, it will be throwback weekend for the city. “In the late seventies and eighties, there were rock and blues concerts almost every day in the city or in Kovalam, especially on weekends. Hotel Luciya and South Park were hangouts for those grooving to Western music,” says Darshan Shankar, one of the key organisers of the event.The city will see a return of the days when live Western music was the staple of the city’s music lovers. A group of rock, blues, soul and jazz musicians with roots in the city, who grew their careers performing in the city in the 80s and 90s, and who now live and work in various parts of India and the world, are congregating in the city and organising ‘Revival Volume 1’, a concert of Western music aimed at regenerating the culture of live Western music, says a press release from the group. Darshan and his friends who were once the live-wires of the music scene in the city have come up with Trivandrum Rockers Group (TRG) to rejuvenate the Western music circuit. To be held at the Amphitheatre of Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan, more than a hundred soloists and musicians will come… Read full this story
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