Victims of evil deeds received by beautiful hearts

An unplugged musical evening to aid the acid burnt
By Kausar Islam Ayon
23 August 2003, 18:00 PM
If we believe that fire can burn the vices, then it was a perfect starting of a musical evening to aid the acid victims through fireworks. In the hope of driving away all the darkness and to help the distressed humanityAngginaorganised an unplugged concert at the Hotel Sheraton on 21 August. The performance of the big names Miles, Aurthohin, Artcell, and upcoming Elita gave the audience immense joy. It was an unplugged session after a long break in the city. Enthusiastic presence of the music fans once again prooved the wholehearted contribution of the young generation to the ethical effort.

Elita's maiden song Nabina bhoy peyona seemed to be her courageous pronouncement to the victims, to go forwards and fight against the evil. All the audience in one voice announced their support for the victims. Elita, performing for the first time as a soloist, performed with excellence.

Afterwards Artcell came on stage to perform their first ever-unplugged concert. They disclosed their nervousness but finally carried on, in their own artistic way. They performed ten numbers from Pink Floyd, Tracy Chapman, as well as from their own albums.

Aurthohin a band of different taste came on stage next. The spectators enjoyed their performance of more than an hour, motionlessly.

Then the attraction of the evening, Miles took the stage--they too appeared after a long pause. Miles performed some twenty numbers including English and their own numbers. Tracks like Shesh bikeler aloy, Nil noyon, Protom premer moto gave the audience the usual easy listening characteristic of the band. Among Miles' English tracks, Hotel California, Keep coming back to you of Bryan Adams, Wish you were here of Pink Floyd, Heaven's door of Guns n Roses, Teras in heaven of Eric Clapton rocked the audience to immense enjoyment.

It was surely an appreciable effort of the audience and the performers to stand by the innocent victims of a social vice.