About

Sarb Akal Music Society of Calgary, a young Non-profit, Charity organization which has grown
by leaps and bounds since its inception in 2014, has been instrumental in putting Calgary on the
world map of Indian Classical Music. We are dedicated to preserving and promoting Indian
Classical Music through “Indian Classical Music Festival” (ICMF), a well-known annual event
and many public events held in-person, on various Social Media outlets and Youtube. Sarb Akal
has become a beacon of artistic excellence, fostering an appreciation for music and providing a
platform for local and international artists.
The stalwarts, established artists as well as upcoming and shining stars of Indian Classical
Music look forward to perform in our ICMF as it has gained a tremendous popularity and respect
as a 2-day annual classical music festival since its inception in 2016. The reason for ICMF’s
popularity is that so many artists of world fame have already performed in Sarb Akal’s various
musical events in a short span of few years. A few names mentioned below will suffice to
validate this statement:
 Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty, Pt. Rajan Sajan Misra, Vidushi Ruchira Panda, Vidushi Kaushiki
Chakraborty, Ustad Raza Ali, Vidushi Indrani Mukherjee, Sangeeta Bandhopadhyay,
Vidhushi Gauri Pathare, Sanhita Nandi (All Vocal artists)
 Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, Pt. Harvinder Sharma (All Sitar players)
 Dr. Sangeeta Shankar, Vidushi Kala Ramnath (All Violinists)
 Ustad Tafu Khan, Pt. Yogesh Samsi, Reshma Pandit, Ustad Sukhwinder Singh Pinky,
Pt. Subhankar Banerjee, Ustad Tari Khan, Pt. Hindole Majumdar, Sunny Matharu, Pt.
Samar Saha, Ustad Raghbir Singh, Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri, Pt. Abhijit Banerjee (All
Tabla players)
 Gurbaksh Singh Matharu (Tar Shenai)
 Pt. Ramesh Misra, Pt. Dhruba Ghosh, Pankaj Mishra, Ilyas Khan (All Sarangi players)
 Ustad Aashish Khan, Ustad Alam Khan (Sarod player)
 Pt. Rupak Kulkarni, Flute Sisters Debopriya & Suchismita Chatterjee (All Flute players)
 Ustad Nawab Khan, Ustad Satnam Singh, Ustad Kiranpal Singh (All Santoor players)
 Deborah Nyack (Harp player)
As a token of gratitude to such a warm response to its mission of preserving and promoting
Indian Classical Music, Sarb Akal decided to take ICMF2019 to further heights by making it a 3-
day festival. Addition of Indian Classical Dance on 3 rd day further enhanced the attraction and
made the event a complete classical package as all the three components of music i.e. Vocal,
Instrumental and Dance are present in it since then.
In the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Music is the universal language of mankind”. Let
us adopt, learn, follow or at least try to listen to this beautiful language and make our lives much
more livable, peaceful and loving with this kind of soul-soothing sweet classical music.