EKAL Charity Musical Concert June 28, 2009

An enchanting evening of Geet, Ghazal and Popular film songs with Singer Sushil Baweja (Ramayana Fame) with Tabla King Ashok Pandey.

Sushil Baweja - Shri. Sushil Baweja, a truly creative artist received his early music lessons from his mother. He seems to reach a new level each year as an innovative, versatile, classical and semi classical singer. The effect of his voice is instant and refreshing to the ear. Shri. Sushil Baweja has won many awards in India and abroad.

Ashok Pandey - Shri. Ashok Pandey, a renowned tabla maestro has been honored by former president and former prime minister of India. In addition to featuring in numerous CDs, films, and TV series, he has won many awards including the Malhar samman from Alaudin Khan Music Academy, the Vishweshwaraiya award etc.

Preet Prerana & Jaydeep Pandey - Preet Prerana & Jaydeep Pandey are successful play back singers in Indian movies. They were trained by Shri. Sushil Baweja and Shri. Ashok Pandey and perform with them in India and abroad. They are very popular among different age groups for their devotional and film songs.

About Ekal:
Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation is a non-religious, non-political non-profit that initiates, supports, and runs non-formal one-teacher schools (popularly known as Ekal Vidyalayas) all over India. Our goal is to reach 100,000 villages in rural India by 2015, in line with the UN Millennium Development Goals. To date, we operate in 27,000 villages and educate some 800,000 children.

For Ekal Vidyalaya, education is more than book learning. Education is the assimilation of life-building, man-making, character-building ideas. To instill those principles requires skills and dedication. Ekal Vidyalaya takes great care in selecting and training its teachers to provide the best quality education possible.

VISION:
To banish illiteracy from the face of tribal India by providing free, non-formal education through a People-Movement.

To get more information, you can visit http://www.ekalindia.org