12/05/2024
Ohmkara appreciates support from Gujarati Communities in New Jersey, Charlotte, Atlanta, Kansas City and Chicago for making Gamtilu Gujarat - Kavi Shree Ankit Trivedi's Swarotsav's music and literature concert from April 27-May 11, 2024, a huge success. We are specially thankul to Ritesh Shah of Ritesh Shah Charitable Pharmacy, Gujarati Literary Academy of North America (glaofna.com), samaj of charlotte, @ International Gujarati Cultural Society Atlanta, Samaj of Kansas City and all the supporters and media partners for their continued support in our efforts to promote our music, language, art and culture in the USA.
Sincere appreciation to Ashish Desai of GLAOFNA, Jatin Shah of IGCSA and Hemant Brahmbhatt of Hi India in Chicago for their support in making Gamtilu Gujarat a huge success.
Through the theme of “Gamtilu Gujarat” with renowned Poet Ankit Trivedi of well-known program of Swarotsav in India and their wonderful & talented team of singers and musicians mesmerized the audience for more than three hours of entertainment. This was the sixth time where Ohmkara organized the Gujarati musical concert nationwide to promote Gujarati music and literature. This was one of the high energy Gujarati music concerts where the most famous and popular songs from the seven decades of Gujarati and Hindi languages were sung under one roof which was applauded by the audience. The most versatile Gujarati music legend late Shree Avinash Vyas’s evergreen and famous songs were performed along with famous songs of the two living legends of Gujarati music and “Bhishma Pitamah” Shree Gaurang Vyas and Shree Purushottam Upadhyay were the highlights of the evening. The young, talented and dynamic singer Dhruvish Shah and veteran singer Divyang Anjaria, along with talented musicians Ritesh Upadhyay, Hitesh Master, Richard Christian and Gurinder Negi performed some old famous and some new religious, romantic and folk numbers like “Maniyaro te halu halu”, “Tane jata joi pangat ni vate”, “Pankhida ne aa pinjaru”, “Chhel Chhabilo Gujarai”, “Tu Garam masaledar khati meethi vanagi”, “Dhuni re dhakhavi” and garba-raas melodies with more than 50 original Gujarati songs and some of the famous Hindi Songs beautifully sung in presence of house full audience in several cities of the USA.
Kavi Ankit Trivedi’s versatile compere with tremendous Gujarati language command and orating were praised by many who attended. He kept the audience in sync for more than three hours with his humor and masterclass poetry. So many once mores and continuous claps and singing together for hours were witnessed and many praised the event and requested Ohmkara team to organize these types of events in the future. Gujaratis once again united under the name of “Gamtilu Gujarat” with Ohmkara and Swarotsav to organize such events outside of India. Ohmkara Team under the leadership of business entrepreneur and self-less community leader Pinakin Pathak and his dedicated team members Dr. Tushar Patel, Nishil Parikh, Deepak Trivedi, and Kalpana Mehta continued to work diligently to plan such events.