Asked about the raison d'etre of such events, Niblet G Mendes, the managing director of Omni Music said, "We want to promote Bangladeshi music and the practice of music. We have plans to organise a big event and we are trying to gain enough confidence through these programmes."

Niblet who is a sound engineer himself, adds, "There's no lack of talented musicians in our country. However, when it comes to western musical instruments like guitars, drums and keyboards, our musicians are all more or less self-trained. How many people in this country can play saxophone or piano? A group of people want to label different genres of music such as pop, rock and metal performed by the bands in our country as 'blind imitation of the West', but they forget our bands sing in Bangla. These songs speak of our contemporary issues and life. There are renowned musical schools that teach Tagore, Nazrul and folk songs but there is no credible institution for the contemporary genres of music. We want to change the scenario through workshops and training sessions in the future."

The event kicked off with the band Feedback's performance of Aaj tomar chithi. General manager of export division of Yamaha Corp, Toru Nagase and South Asian representative of Yamaha, RR Arora attended the event along with Neo G Mendes, chairperson of Enem-Omni Group. Nagase rendered Ritchie Valens' immortal song La Bamba while playing the lead guitar and Neo was on the drums alongside members of Feedback. The audience seemed to enjoy the spontaneous performance. Feedback also performed Mon-e podey tomae, Another day in paradise of Phil Collins and Moushumi.

Popular artiste of the 80s', Saba Tani was in the audience but giving way to repeated requests she performed Ektu minoti and a duet with Feedback's guitarist Labu, Prithibi tomarey jey chay. Saba said, "This informal adda-ish event is really commendable. Artistes and aspiring musicians would be encouraged if similar programmes are held regularly." Artiste Fahmida Nabi joined Saba in her performance of Ei neel monihar, composed by Lucky Akhand. Saba then reminisced on her contemporary, Sheikh Ishtiaque, a talented vocalist who is not among us any more. Neelanjana, a song of Ishtiaque, was then performed.

Following that, Feedback performed their 'claim to fame' song Mela-e jairey, amidst a cheering audience. Very few songs capture the essence of festivities on the Bangla New Year, like the song. Artiste Bappa Majumdar performed Rani ghumae bhordupurey and a song of Dalchhut, Brishti porey.

All in all, it was an enjoyable evening of music. Here's hoping that there are many others coming our way.