Pakistani music project nominated for award

KARACHI: Pakistan’s premier music project, the Indus Raag -- Gold Edition -- has won a nomination in the 16th Independent Music Awards (IMAs) announced recently in New York City.

This was announced at a press conference at a local hotel by Sharif Awan, the producer of the album. Awan earned two nominations previously in the 15th IMAs.

Award winners will be announced on March 31 at the Lincoln Centre, New York.

The names of over 400 nominees for 96 categories were announced in New York on February 14, 2018.

The Indus Raag project also won a gold medal and two silver medals in the Global Music Awards (USA) and was declared among the top 10 albums of 2016.

These programmes have been undertaken under the umbrella of the Tehzeeb

Foundation, which has now been giving impetus to Pakistan’s cultural and artistic heritage for 10 years. “We inherit the artistic resource,” Awan said.

The Indus Raag project, he said, involved top quality musicians from both India and Pakistan.

The husband-wife team of Sharif and Malahat Awan has rendered real Yeoman’s service to Pakistan’s cultural, artistic and historical heritage and have made the most successful endeavours to preserve it.

The foundation, the brainchild of Sharif and Malahat Awan, has organised prestigious conferences and musical festivals all over the country for almost nine years now.