Swami Haridas Sangeet Sammelan (English: Swami Haridas Music Festival) is a noted

Hindustani classical music Hindustani classical music is the classical music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. It may also be called North Indian classical music or, in Hindustani, ''shastriya sangeet'' (). It is played in instruments like the violin, sita ...

and dance festival organized by

Sur Singar Samsad Sur or SUR or El Sur (Spanish "the South") may refer to: Geography * Sur or Shur (Bible), the wilderness of Sur/Shur from the Book of Exodus * Sur (river), a river of Bavaria, Germany * Súr, a village in Hungary * Sur, a district of the city of ...

, and held annually in

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. All the prominent Indian classical vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers perform at the week-long festival.

History

It was started in 1952 in honor of 16th-century saint,

Swami Haridas Swami Haridas (1480—1573) was a spiritual poet and classical musician. Credited with a large body of devotional compositions, especially in the Dhrupad style, he is also the founder of the Haridasi school of mysticism, still found today ...

by Sur Singar Samsad.

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