Live in concert with RUNA LAILA! Runa Laila is going to tour USA beginning from June 16th, 2002. She'll entertain Bangla Music fans in seven concerts along with other artists. This tour includes concerts in New York, Washington DC, Virginia, Boston, Los Angeles, Florida, Atlanta and Houston.

Heartthrob of Bangladesh & Kolkata Ferdous Ahamed, Singer From Bombay Jolly Mukharjee, Singer From Bombay & Kolkata Mou(Jojo), Model & Actress Pallavi and Sensation of Bangladeshi Model & Actress Sumi are among the other top performers going to participate in other activities.

Bangladesh Government has banned Music Television channel MTV and Channel [V] until further notice.

This is a big blow to the music fans as they will missout the most popular music channels in the world. There will be no more broadcusting of HBO, MGM, Star World, AXN, Hallmark and other top rated international channels as well. Gotv. has banned 13 channels all togather.

There could be more bans on foreign TV channels as the Bangladesh Information Minister source said.

Courtesy: MTV

Bangladesh Beter will broadcast a one to one live interview with new generation singer Asif on Wednesday, May 8th starting from 12:15pm till 12:30pm on Channel "KHA". He'll talk about his success in music industry, his recent albums and his personal life. So tune in Bangladesh Beter at 12:30pm on May to listen to him.

Asif is the most popular singer of recent times and won many national awards since he came to lime light two years back. He recently won a very prestigious "Meril - ProthomAlo award 2001" Which was organized by both "Meril Toiletries" and "Prothom Alo" on May 1st. You can also listen to him at Bangladesh Beter Live website at www.BanglaRadio.com

Photo: Independent

Vocalists (L-R) Asif, Bachchu and Baby Naznin walk hand in hand to perform the theme song at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on April 27 after the World Cup Champions' Trophy was taken there for public display.
One of the two main attractions to draw people were a concert, performed by Asif, Baby Naznin and the leading band, LRB and a football match between veterans of Abahani and Mohammedans.

Red Crescent Society of Bangladesh organized an open air concert named "Abar Matoo Dhaka" at Army Stadium on Friday, April 12th. This charity concert was sponsored by PEPSI to raise money for Red Crescent Society. LRB, James's Nagarbaul, Warfaze, Vikings and Hassan's newly formed Shadhinota participited in this concert. Thousands of Bangla Music fans in Dhaka enjoyed this eight hour long concert. Similar concert (Matoo Dhaka) was organized by PEPSI at the same ground last year.

Bangladesh Association of North Texas (BANT) organized a Musical program called "Shadhinota Program" at Irving Art Center on March 29th in Dallas, Texas, USA. This program was organized to observe our Independence day. Famous superstars from Dhaka such as Tapan Chowdhury, Shumona Haq, Bipasha Hayat, Taukir Ahamed came to perform.
Shumona Haq came first to the stage and sang 5/6 songs in front of a full house audience. Rezia Parveen sang quite a few songs but some technical problem almost gave the crowed a headache. Tapan Chowdhury was on the stage for a while and he sang almost all of his hit songs. Later Shumona Haq and Rezia parveen joined him for few duet songs.
Tawkir Ahamed and Bipasha Hayat staged a drama written by Tawkir Ahamed himself. Everyone enjoyed this drama as the drama touched many of our social norms and its conflicts while a guy who live in USA goes to marry a girl who lives in Bangladesh. The show ended with that drama.
The organizers were happy about the way the show went and also with the crowed as they were expecting much less. Tapan chowdhury already told us that he already got a positive indication for next FOABNA concert which will be organized some time later this year.