LU 'rubaroo' with Old City culture

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.