vadodara audiences from 44 countries will turn up at vadodara to attend the art and cultural events organized by vadfest between january 23 and january 26 vadfest management said people from south korea sri lanka and countries in west asia and other regions have booked tickets for the events the art and cultural extravaganza offers an important platform to the local artistes and the alumni of ms universitys fine arts faculty people remember the last performance of yaani in india with the taj mahal at the backdrop now audiences will remember yaanis performance with the grand laxmi vilas palace as the background the likes of a r rehman sonu nigam and kailash kher will enthrall the audiences said gujarats tourism and finance minister saurabh patel who is also heading the vadfest management chief minister anandiben patel will inaugurate the vadfest on january 23 over 10000 children will play drums on the same day to spread the message of swachh bharat initiated by prime minister narendra modi all the artists from fine arts faculty including its alumni will be given a platform to showcase their artworks many artists have sent their artworks from across the country patel added vadfest also promises to promote local handicrafts by organizing garvi gurjari national craft fair and summit 2015 between january 25 and january 29 at polo ground over 500 buyers are expected to turn up for the summit also hundreds of handicrafts artists will participate in the summit a huge craft village spread over on 87500 square feet of area will exhibit gujarats artworks including paintings mud works tangalia weaving bead work leather work bamboo works and many others a vintage car rally too has been organized on january 25 apart from royal food festival we had kept vadfest exhibits in the vibrant gujarat summit this year and got very good response patel said vadfest took off on friday evening with performances by local artists like prahar vora kalyani kautharkar bhaumik trivedi anal vasavada parthiv gohil and bhoomi trivedi at navlakhi grounds over next three days local artists will give performances at navlakhi grounds