Lucknow: Crashing cymbals blend with soft notes of the guitar, drum sticks ready to rock the campus-here is a band with a difference on the
Lucknow University campus 'Rubarooo....Unsorted Symphonies' launched on Monday after auditioning by the university's Sanskritiki Board. Composition of a rock Sufi song written specially for LU was also finalised on Monday. The song would be presented at LU's mini-fest on September 5.
Sanskritiki director N K Pandey, additional director Anoop Kumar Bhartiya and board member Roli Misra selected the band that includes lead singers Garima Singh and Harshit Sahai, lead guitarist
Saksham Pandey
, keyboard player Prabhat Kumar Singh, vocalist Abhishek Awasthi, rhythm guitarist
Kevin John
, bassist Zubair Hamza, drummers Rohan Yadav/Puneet, tabla/dholak players Kushagra Pandey and supporting singers Mukul Pathak and Akash yadav "We will performing rock with a Sufi touch," said Zubair. "We have all performed in school bands and this opportunity is a dream come true," said Garima Singh, while Abhishek Awasthi said they had tried to connect Lucknow University with
Old City
.
"
Wajid Ali ne yahan nibhayi apni aan hai, Siraj aur Begum Ki Ye Lakhnavi Shaan hai; Chowk se Vishwavidyalay tak har jagah aafreen hai," are the lines keyboard player Prabhat Kumar Singh and lead singer Harshit hum.
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