World Music Day

World Music Day: A celebration of music and culture at Shilpakala Academy

Artistes perform during the second and final day of the World Music Day festival at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka on June 22. The two-day celebration featured performances spanning folk, contemporary, instrumental, and international musical traditions. Among those in attendance on the closing day were Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Emran Saleh Prince, Zakir Hossain Rokan, Cultural Affairs Secretary Kaniz Moula, and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Director General Sheikh Rezauddin Ahmed.
23 June 2026, 11:29 AM

World Music Day festival concludes today at Shilpakala Academy

The programme will be chaired by Cultural Affairs Secretary Kaniz Mowla. Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Director General and poet Sheikh Rezauddin Ahmed will deliver the welcome address.
22 June 2026, 15:47 PM

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy to host two-day music festival on World Music Day

The Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy is set to organise a two-day music festival in Dhaka to celebrate World Music Day.
18 June 2026, 12:05 PM

Art must create awareness: Fahmida Nabi

Renowned National Film Award-winning singer Fahmida Nabi has returned from the US and is actively working on new music. On the occasion of World Music Day, she released a heartfelt track titled “Bondhu Hariye Gelo”, composed by the late Borno Chakraborty and written by Anisuzzaman Jewel.
24 June 2025, 10:51 AM

Arnob to perform at Kolkata concert hosted by Sourendro-Soumyojit

In celebration of this year's World Music Day today, a concert in Kolkata has been organised by India's well-known music duo Sourendro and Soumyojit. 
21 June 2024, 09:08 AM

Scrounging revelations out of music

I don't remember at what point in life I learned to recognize the fallacy behind the not-like-other-girls phenomenon and discarded it for an all-encompassing love for female friendship and solidarity, in acceptance of femininity in all its forms. But I do know that Taylor Swift played a significant role in it.
20 June 2023, 12:46 PM

WORLD MUSIC DAY CELEBRATIONS

On the occasion of World Music Day, which is celebrated on June 21, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy will organise a discussion and cultural programme. The ceremony will be inaugurated at 6 in the evening with the presence of artistes such as Timir Nondi and many more. A discussion by eminent artistes, including Mustafa Jaman Abbasi, Momtaz Begum, Andrew Kishore,
20 June 2018, 18:00 PM

FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE 2015

'Fête de la Musique', also known as World Music Day, began as a music festival in France in the year 1982. Since then it is celebrated all over the world, especially in European countries.
17 June 2015, 18:00 PM