12 December,2010 01:15 AM IST | | Urvashi Seth
The campaign against high entertainment tax on live performances gets bigger as a family joins in concert
After the city's live musicians launched the Facebook campaign 'Pls don't kill live music' against the government's new entertainment tax policy (see 'FB crusade for live music hits a note with musicians' in the Mid Day dated November 25), an entire household has come forward in support of live music.
The Duggal family at Bandra's Carter Road, where they will sing
for the Music Bazaar concert. Pic/Satyajit Desai
Rajiv alias Bunty Duggal and his family have decided to support the cause of 'Pls don't kill live music' at the Music Bazaar, scheduled for December 19 in Bandra.
Duggal, a music composer and father of two daughters, will perform live with his family in support of the Facebook campaign. Duggal said, "I know the pain live musicians are going through. I was in a band 15 years ago and if I had to face this situation, I would have lost all hope. Music is our bread and butter."
The family is currently busy pracitising their act for the concert which will also see performances by composer Louis Banks and singer Shibani Kashyap. Duggal's 11 year-old daughter Simran has set all other activities aside. Simran and her 14 year-old sister Riya are singers while Duggal and his wife record songs for various animated programmes.
They will sing 'Let the music play' written by Ernest Flanagan who performs at a caf ufffd in Bandra Kurla Complex. "Through the song, we'll send out a message to the government that what they are doing with the music industry is wrong," he said.
On December 12 at Velkar Farms, behind Velkar Petrol Pump, Dahisar. And at Music Bazaar on December 19 at Amphitheatre, opposite Landmark building, Carter Road, Bandra (W)
