A vision that was imagined by Pt. Subhen Chatterjee Grammy nominated Tabla Maestro, we are giving shape to his dream to bring Kolkata to the map of rhythm festivals around the world. Along with his son SambitC the director of Kolkata International Drum Festival, season 2 is going to be ever bigger and better , an evening filled with surprise and nostalgia.

We are celebrating the day of rhythm on the birthday of rhythm GOD Ustad Zakir Hussain and from this year we dedicate the festival to his life and the gift he was to humanity.

This will be a place to showcase the rhythm of the universe, sounds that have been bringing us together as a community since time immemorial.

Let this be our Anhad Naad, the first sound of the universe.

Artists : A. Sivamani, Pandit Subhen Chatterjee & Karma, Shariq Tucker the amazing drummer from NewYork USA, Study Group ft. (Jivraj Singh, Premjit Dutta, Debjit Mahalanobis, Kahini Panjabi, Rahul Vanamali), Bunty presents BPM, we have the drum duet performance for the very first time in the history of bengal by two drummers from FOSSILS and The Anupam Roy Band, Tanmay Das & Sandipan Parial, we have the Padmashree Gokul Chandra Das Dhaaki who will grace us with his presence and then we have the one and only Sanjay Mondol with his kids giving us the gift of percussion in a style imagined only by him.