The three month long India's longest performing Arts Festival, the 5th edition of "Hyderabad Arts Festival" kicked off
Euphoria, One of the biggest Bands in India performed in city as part of Hyderabad Arts Festival—Season 5
Hyderabad, May 20, 2017...... The three month long India's longest performing Arts Festival, the 5th edition of "Hyderabad Arts Festival" kicked off with performance of Euphoria, India's one of the biggest bands here in city today at Hitex
HAF is being organized for the past four seasons to celebrate the spirit of Hyderabad. The fifth edition is back with bang with line of up many promising performances.
The festival which took birth in 2012 as a result of a trio - a Hyderabadi, a Keralite and a Tamilian, for the love of the city has become India's longest performing arts festival now. And has become a name to reckon in the industry.
This year too like in the past, the organizers -- A.V. Ramakrishna from Hyderabad, C.S. Manoj from Kerala and Capt. Anand from Chennai, who made Hyderabad their home - lined up impressive non ticketed events to be held at different venues across the city for next three months.
HAF is a part of the Happening Hyderabad initiative of the Telangana government and has support from the Government of Telangana and many other organizations.
Hyderabad has a 400 years of rich cultural heritage. It has been projected as the Global City. It played host to many luminaries like Bill Clinton, George Bush, Kofi Annan, Bill Gates and many others. HAF wants to contribute to this aspect by organizing good events in its annual festival that runs for 3 long months every year.
The Euphoria performance mark the beginning of main events of HAF Season 5 and continues till 22nd July 2017. Some of the highlights of this season unlike in the past four seasons are artists like Padma Vibhushan Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia on flute, Padma Bhushan Raja Radha Reddy with their dance ballet, Pt. Niladri Kumar on Sitar, Euphoria Band, and such artists performing in HAF Season 5.
Organisers planned a mega felicitation of the living legend Padma Vibhushan Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia on the day of his performance.