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The World Festival of Sacred Music will be held in Bangalore between April 9 - 16, 2000. The Festival will showcase musical traditions from over 14 countries including Indian classical and folk traditions.

The special attractions of the Festival will be the participation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a multi-faith, multi-cultural discussion on "Religion and Spirituality in the New Millennium" on April 11, 2000. The schedule also includes a piano teaching workshop on the April 10th and a programme for interactions between school children and musicians between April 12-15, 2000.

The Festival will feature renowned Indian musicians and artists such as Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, Qawwals from Hyderabad and the Baul singers from Bengal, apart from others. The event will also bring together the diverse sacred music traditions from different parts of the world like Italy, Japan, Germany, South Africa, Estonia and Thailand, to name a few.

World Festival of Sacred Music Programme Schedule J.N. Tata Auditorium
Sl. No.	9th April 6.00 p.m.	10th April 6.30 p.m.	11th April 5.30 p.m.	12th April 6.30 p.m.
1	108 Tibetan monks and nuns	Jain Recitation	Vedic Chants	Bangalore School of Music
2	Devotional folk music of Rajasthan	Pt. Amaradeva + S.Edirisinghe	108 Tibetan monks and nuns	Toshinori Kondo
3	Chaim Storosum & the Benedictine Community	Kamal Trisutji	Raj Rang-Rajastan devotional folk	Steve Dancz & friends
4	Franco Battiato	Haveli Sangeet	Qawwali	Karnataka Folk
5	Yakshagana traditional dance drama	Melagana	Pt. Sivakumar Sharma+N.Khechog	Umkhoto-ka-shaka
6		Judy Rhodes & Count Clovis	Chanting by Theravada Monks
7		Talavadya	Chanting by Mongolian Monks
8			Tosi Poleri
9			Shatakanta Dikshitar

	13th April 6.30 p.m.	14th April 6.30 p.m.	15th April 6.30 p.m.	16th April 6.30 p.m.
1	Veena ensemble	Shofar	Paranjoti Academy Chorus	Shabad Kirtan
2	Anna Tanvir & Patrice Arnould	Zoroastrian Choir	Shamans from Mongalia	R.K. Srikanthan
3	Baul	Murafti and Murshidi	Vidhyabhushana	Nawang Khechog
4	Musical Mosaic of Canada	Philip Hemley & Friends	Adithi K Upadhya	Pandit Jasraj
5		Katha kirthan	Umkhonto-ka-Shaka	Special Int'l presentation
6		Ruth Wieder Magan
OTHER VENUES J.S.S. Auditorium
	12th April 6.30 p.m.	13th April	14th April
1	Anna Tanvir & Patrice Arnould	Steve Dancz	Musical Mosaic of Canada
2	Chaim Storosum & the Benedictine Community	Murshidi Marfati (Bangladesh)	Judy Rhodes
3	Baul	Tosi Poleri	Umkhonto-ka-shaka
4	Kamal Trisutji	Toshinori Kondo
5		Ruth Wieder Magan
Taralabalu Auditorium
	15th April 6.30 p.m.
1	Theravada Monks
2	Music Mosaic of Canada
3	Philip Hemley & Friends
St. Mark's Church
	15th April 6.30 p.m.
1	Organ Concert by Matthias Eisenberg from Germany

Note : Subject to Change