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dreds rejoicing in music, dance, eating and shopping, I was extremely happy. Our aim was extraordinarily fruitful.” Raj Mistry, a spokes person for the charity Shishukunj said, “The Anand Mela was a fantastic opportunity for Shishukunj as the nominated charity. The event provided us with tremendous exposure to the Indian community and it was a delight to work with the team at Asian Voice.”
Performers
Adil Hashmi
Adil is a musician, live performer and songwriter who is well-known for his song 'Jaana'.
AK Bollywood Dance
AK Bollywood Dance is a fresh dynamic dance group, which specialises in Bollywood dance with a fusion of a variety of other forms such as classical, traditional, modern contemporary and hip hop.
Banubhai Pandya
Banubhai Pandya is a wellknown comedian, who specialises in jokes in Gujarati
Hemina Shah
Kirvraj Gharyal
Hemina Shah is a talented singer and performing artist originally from the UK, specialising in a range of different styles of Indian music including Hindi Bollywood, Hindi pop remixes, Bhangra, Garba, Fusion etc.
Kivraj is an extremely talented 12 years old dhol player, who has been learning dhol and tabla for the last 5 years. He hopes to pursue music when he is older.
Honey Kalaria is an award winning actress, choreographer and one of the top 3 Asian business women in the UK, with 18 Bollywood schools, an Honorary Doctorate of Arts and a No 1 Bollywood Workout video.
Kanti Patel
Kishan is an up and coming vocalist who has been singing for over 15 years. Training in Indian classical music since the age of 5, he performs in various different styles ranging mainstream Bollywood and Bhangra to ghazals and other classical forms of Indian music.
Kesh K
Kishan and Dilesh are dhol players from the London School of Dhol.
Honey Kalaria
Banubhai Pandya is a wellknown comedian and specialises in jokes in Gujarati Kesh K is a versatile musician armed with understanding of tabla, vocal, writing and composing. Born into a family of mixed origin (Indian/Italian) Kesh has been surrounded by music from day one. At the age of 3, he would imitate and play along with the likes of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Zakir Hussain and Aziz Mian which articulated his passion for music.
Actress Esha Kansara
Om Shakti Day Centre Volunteers
From Charutar Arogya Mandal in Gujarat, Secretary Mr Jagrat Bhatt, Chairman Dr Amrita Patel, Surendra Patel and Kanti Nagra
Kishan Amin
Kishan and Dilesh
Om Shakti Day Centre
A group of women performed a garba dance and also gave a speech congratulating Asian Voice & Gujarat Samachar for the Anand Mela.
Manorma Joshi
Manorma is a performing artist (Actress, Singer/Song writer & Indian classical Kathak dancer) living in London UK. She comes from a very artistic family background
and has had the biggest inspirations from there.
Maz Khan
Rotheram based business man Maz Khan is set to release his debut single ‘Jaan Soniye’ on 12th June 2014. The business man started singing at a young age at family events and parties before he met with record label owner Zahid Parvez (sid Twilight) who offered to give him his first break as a professional singer.
Mehi
Mehi is a brand new punjabi artist who will be releasing his new track this month.
Meera Salat
Meera Salat is a dancer who is trained in a variety of dance styles. She has her own dance academy where she teaches dance to all ages.
and English. With a strong fan based reach of over 3 million people and growing, Navin has achieved six number one singles in the Asian Charts, and won the 2013 'Entertainer of the Year' Award in the Houses Of Parliament.
Rekha Sawhney
A versatile Singer, Performer and Dreamer, as she describes herself, Harrow's own Rekha, believes that talent should speak for itself and not be ornamented with vanity and over-confidence. Singing for her is very much like thinking and speaking.
Shishikunj
Maz Khan
Tanya Wales and Vikas Tanya Wales is a nonIndian woman who specialises in singing Bollywood songs with a soul-touching voice.
Tilu Patel
Tilu Patel is an entertainer who performed a Raj Kapoor Dance.
Photo courtesy: Raj D Bakrania, Prmediapix and Suryakant Jadava
A group of volunteers from the charity Shishukunj performed a garba dance
Navin Kundra
Navin Kundra is a British singer/songwriter, who writes, composes and performs songs in Hindi, Punjabi
Councillor Phillip O'Dell with Associate Editor of Asian Voice, Rupanjana Dutta
Q&A with Esha Kansara
Preeti Varsani
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Pratap Ghadvi from Shishukunj
Navin Kundra
Kishan and Dilesh from London School of Dhol
Kishan Amin
Adil Hashmi and Sib
Esha Kansara with Consulting Editor of Gujarat Samachar Jyotsna Shah
Rekha Sawhney
Mehi
Joint Director Anoop Pankhania, Event Manager Riddhi Pankhania, Manager Kishor and Rio at Shishukunj stall