Singer and Actor Harbhajan Mann will perform Bhangra Authentic
during the Vancouver Olympics
(With: Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Society -VIBC)

Vancouver, Sep. 26, 2009
Munish Arora/Vancouver
Raj/Los Angeles

Transfusion and Bhangra Authentic, a 90-minute presentation of folk dance from around the world will take place at the Vancouver International Film Centre on Feb. 29, March 1-2, 2010.

Singer and movie star, Harbhajan Singh Mann is to lead the Bhangra show at the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 649 Cambie St, Vancouver, on February 27 as part of the Cultural Olympiad lineup for the 2010 Games. Harbhajan Mann headlines, mixing fast-paced bhangra rhythms and trademark Punjabi ballads. With Shin, founding member of the seminal British band DCS, joining Vancouver rockers En Karma, and the hip-hop inspired funk of San Francisco’s Black Mahal featuring vocalist and Dhol master Ustad Lal Singh Bhatti.

Harbhajan Singh Mann grew up in Canada and leading the Bhangra celebrations at Cultural Olympiad, an important Canadian event will be a huge personal honour for Harbhajan Mann.

The whole project is sponserered by Bell and co-presented by the Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration (VIBC) Society and the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad .

Robert Kerr, program director for the Cultural Olympiad, said:

• The South Asian culture is part of Canada.
• It really comes back to one of our core values and objectives of the program, and that’s to showcase the full scope of all the people and the cultures that make up Canada.
• It’ll be an amazing showcase of music out of the Bhangra scene and the classical Indian music scene.

Munish Arora said, we hope, NRIpress.com will cover the whole event.

It is surprising then that performers at the City of Bhangra Festival have fused the Punjabi dance with the another type of dance and music from halfway around the world—the Celtic tradition, according to asianpacificpost

International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games through its Chairman, René Fasel said:

• The organizers of the Games in Vancouver and Whistler are ready for 2010. We’ve heard from VANOC and its partners about all the steps that they are undertaking to ensure that the athletes and other Games visitors have a fantastic Olympic and Paralympic experience. We are extremely happy with what we have seen and heard, and are confident that they will deliver.
• With the Olympic Torch Relay underway , VANOC and its partners are becoming increasingly operational and are reaching a very precise level of detail in their planning. This is normal at this stage of the Games preparations and requires great focus from the organisers to ensure that the Games reach Olympic level.
• The 2010 Olympic Winter Games will be staged in Vancouver and Whistler from February 12 to 28, 2010. Vancouver and Whistler will host the Paralympic Winter Games from March 12 to 21, 2010.

Bhangra is a traditional form of dance and music which originates from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. It was initially used as a celebratory folk dance which heralded the coming of spring, or Vaisakhi, as it is known. Bhangra is a mix of a singing accompanied by music and the beat of a single drum known as a dhol. The dhol is a large, high-bass drum, played by beating it with two sticks - known as daggah (bass end) and tilli (treble end). .......Read

Singer and Actor Harbhajan Mann

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• Opening Act: Ustad Lal Singh Bhatti and Black Mahal
• Second Act: Shin and En Karma
• Headlining Act: Harbhajan Mann
• Presented With:
  Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Society (VIBC)

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• When: Feb. 27, 2010
  7:00 pm
• VIP Reception: 5:30 pm

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• Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 649 Cambie St, Vancouver
• Ticket information:
  Price(s): $38, $48, $58 & $90 (VIP)
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