Articles tagged under: Vadfest

Vadfest fame Amit Bhatnagar arrested

March 02, 2015

Vadodara Amit Bhatnagar, organizer of Vadfest and known businessman in Vadodara was arrested today by Central Excise department for alleged tax evasion. Bhatnagar was one 9 persons nominated by Chief Minister Anandiben Patel for clean liness drive. More details are awaited on this story. Bhatnagar was awarded 'Udyog Ratan' award for 2007-08 by the Government of India. He is also one of the founders of Vadodara Marathon' and is an Executive Committee Member of the Bal Gokulam, a childre...Read More

After Yanni, now Zubin Mehta to perform in Vadodara

February 20, 2015

Vadodara After successful concert of Yanni, the city of Vadodara will host a concert of world-famous Zubin Mehta, but in 2017. According to the details available from the organizers of Vadfest, Shri Zubin Mehta will perform in the next edition of Vadfest scheduled to be held during 25-27 January in year 2017. It should be mentioned that January 2015 witnessed the first edition of Vadfest. The government has decided to hold Vadfest once in every two years....Read More

Vintage car exhibition steals show at VADFEST

January 29, 2015

Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani inaugurating the Vintage car show. Photo courtesy his twitter account. Vadodara, PTI A two-day Vintage car exhibition held at the Vadodara International Arts & Culture Festival (VADFEST) here was the cynosure of all eyes at the fest with 54 vintage cars put up for the show. The exhibition that concluded yesterday had classic cars ranging from Rolls-Royce 1929 model to Chevrolet Phaeton 1933, alongside a century-old Indian motorcycl...Read More

A R Rahman enthrals audience at Vadodara fest

January 27, 2015

Vadodara Noted musician A R Rahman enthralled the audience with his music and popular songs at the closing of the four-day Vadodara International Art and Culture Festival 'Vadfest' here. Rahman sang a couple of his own numbers like 'Dil Se' and concluded the three-and-half hour musical show last night with the rendition of his 'Vande Mataram' composition. Over 30,000 people enjoyed the musical night at Navlakhi compound of the 125-year-old Lakshmi Vilas Pal...Read More

Gujarat CM visits Vadfest art exhibition in Vadodara(Video)

January 23, 2015

Vadodara Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, Union Minister Smriti Irani and Gujarat Ministers Saurabh Patel and Vijay Rupani among others today opened Vadfest 2015 Fine Arts exhibition at MS University's school of fine arts. Chief Minister and others took a round of exhibition where various artists have exhibited their sculptures and paintings that are in total valued at Rs. 20 crore. The exhibition will continue till 26 January. © Copyright DeshGuja...Read More

Gujarat CM, Union Minister Smriti Irani playing drum at Vadfest event(Video)

January 23, 2015

Vadodara, DeshGujarat Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, Union Minister Smriti Irani , Gujarat Minister Saurabh Patel and Vijay Rupani among others today morning played drums at Vadfest 2015 inaugural event which was titled as 'drum circle' in Vadodara. As many as 10,000 drums which were ordered from Uttar Pradesh, were distributed among school children and others today morning in 'drum circle' event. Rhythm of drum was directed from the stage by ...Read More

‘Right liberals’ portion of it!

January 23, 2015

Rupang Bhatt blogs Vadodara There's this word 'left wing liberals' very famous on social media. This word is mostly used by right wing handles on twitter. But here something on 'Right wing liberals' who are out in Vadodara with Vadfest festival. Traditionally in Gujarat, meat or non-veg items are not served in any government function or government supported function, but Saurabh Patel's Vadfest will host number of cuisine events in which non-veg items will be cate...Read More

Gujarat CM to open Vadfest 2015 with drum circle event in Vadodara

January 23, 2015

File photo of Drum Circle rehearsal joined by Chief Minister, others Vadodara Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel will inaugurate Vadodara Art Festival (VADFEST) 2015 today morning with a drum circle event in presence of minister Saurabh Patel among others. A team of Guinness Book of Records has arrived in Vadodara to witness the drum circle event which may break world record of highest number of people playing drum at one location. Vadfest organ...Read More

Yanni all set to perform at Vadfest 2015 in palace of Vadodara

January 22, 2015

Lakshmi Vilas Palace Gandhinagar World famous Greek musician and pianist Yanni will perform at Vadodara, Gujarat on 23 January evening. This will be Yanni's first performance in India after a gap of 18 years. Yanni had lastly performed at Taj Mahal in India. Interacting with media persons in Vadodara, Yanni said he will give surprise to people of Vadodara during concert. He said, among his all performance at various heritage sites across the world, the...Read More

Vadfest 2015: Garvi Gujarat Festival fourth day event Live Video

January 18, 2015

Vadodara, DeshGujart Presented here is a live video webcast of Vadfest-International Art and Culture Festival in vadodara on third day of Garvi Gujarat Festival. The third day of this festival showcases Sham-e-Mushayara and Sham-e-Ghazal event in presence of Manhar Udhas, Khalil Dhantejvi, Rajendra Shukla, Rahat Indori, Shobhit Desai among others.Live webcast here is presented through Vadfest channel on Youtube. The event was held at Navlakhi compound opposit...Read More