The music lineup at India House at the Summer Olympics 2024 in Paris contains (clockwise from left) Shaan, The Raghu Dixit Project, Penn Masala and Tommy Khosla & Jawari. Photos: Jeetu Savlani (Shaan), Courtesy of India House (Dixit, Penn Masala, Khosla)
As the Summer Olympics in Paris nears kickoff on July 26, Indian and Indian-origin artists Shaan, Raghu Dixit Project, Penn Masala and Tommy Khosla & Jawari have been introduced to carry out at the first-ever India House curated by the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC).
With tickets priced at €5 per individual for the concert events, India House is ready up at Parc de la Villette in Paris between July 27 and August 11. A press launch says, “The first-ever India House, conceptualized by Reliance Foundation as part of their partnership with the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), is gearing up to bring the rich legacy of Indian music to mark a phenomenal celebration of India. It will also pay an ode to India’s rich arts and culture through its daily programming specially curated by the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, marking its global entry.”
Shaan, the Bollywood hitmaker who had his breakthrough as a pop artist in 2000, is prepping an uplifting efficiency at India House in Paris. His setlist is slated to incorporate Indian movie songs resembling “Tanha Dil” and “Deewangi Deewangi.”
Dixit, for his half, is performing as a part of his album launch tour on the again of releasing his third full-length album, Shakkar earlier in July. Indian-origin American act Penn Masala, the favored vocal group, will even carry out at India House as a part of the Olympics on the again of releasing their new song “Throw It Away” in June.
London-based sitarist and composer Tommy Khosla will deliver his Latin jazz, hip-hop and digital music-informed fusion with the multi-disciplinary collective Jawari. The collective contains Latin Grammy award-winner and percussionist Gregorio Merchán, guitarist Taylor Frost, saxophonist Billie Sophoclides and Nashville’s first Youth Poet Laureate Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay.
In addition to music, India House – which commemorates 100 years since India competed at the Olympic Games for the primary time below the aegis of the IOA in 1920 – will even characteristic craft installations, yoga classes and dance performances, promising “an immersion in culture, arts, technology, sports or gastronomy,” in line with the web site.
Get tickets for India House music performances here.
