mumbais cross maidan done up with many interesting art installations for the kala ghoda arts festival in association with the times of india has been seeing a constant footfall of varied age groups in the last few days music lovers have been thronging the venue to listen to some of the best artistes for free on thursday evening the highlight was the pink concert for cancer awareness by bollywood singer shilpa rao known for her work in chart busters like ghungroo war khuda jaane bachna ae haseeno subhanallah yeh jawani hai deewani bulleya ae dil hai mushkil ishq shava jab tak hai jaan manmarziyan lootera gustakh dil english vinglish to name a few the singer chose to perform a special ghazal set at the concert completely involving the audience with her constant explanations of the urdu ghazals shilpa won the audience over there were some singalong parts in the concert too that were a hit she began the evening with the raag yamanbased famous ghazal ranjish hi sahi and caught on to the pulse of the audience with her rendition she then sang mujh se pehli si muhabaat and of course aaj jaane ki zid na karo shilpa who has performed earlier at the kala ghoda arts festival was athome when it came to performing on stage this is actually family for me but today was special because it was a ghazal baithak we always support the cause of increasing cancer awareness for women i am here just to support that and glad to see the fabulous audience the enthusiastic audience danced to the music that was performed on stagejoell mukherjii and chinmayi tripathi enthral the audiencestudents of furtado school of music wowed the audienceindian classical musician nikhil patwardhanthursday evening saw four other musical programmes too and had begun with a lively multigenre musical set by the talented students of furtado school of music that had classical rock numbers along with iconic instrumental solos the next set music and poetry project was an initiative to reinvent classical indian poetry in the form of contemporary music for a new and young audience nikhil patwardhan an accomplished indian classical musician sitar player and composer was next kartik shah and nirali kartik of maatibaani wowed the audience with their set the bands name literally means language of the earth and their sounds focus on collective roots with elements of poetry to bring together folk fusion on one platform the eventful programmes came to an end with the last performance of the day which was the pink concert for cancer awareness by shilpa