No more Hornbill Int’l Rock Contest from 2019

TaFMA Advisor, Theja Meru addressing press conference in Kohima on August 28 (Morung Photo)

Move made towards making  Hornbill a full-fledged music festival

Our Correspondent
Kohima | August 28

Advisor for the Task Force for Music and Arts (TaFMA), Theja Meru today announced the scrapping of the Hornbill International Rock Contest from 2019.

“To make the Hornbill Music Festival into a full-fledged Music Festival, the Hornbill Rock Contest will be discontinued. Instead the festival will have ‘The Great Hornbill Rock’,” Meru said while addressing a press conference here this afternoon at Symphony Cafe.

Meru said that keeping in line with the Chief Minister's vision for an all inclusive policy and giving maximum platform and opportunity to local musicians, TaFMA will conduct a state wide band audition under the banner ‘Ticket to Hornbill’ on September 27.

The winners from each district will get an entry to perform at the Hornbill Music Festival. As part of promoting the Hornbill Music Festival, audition for bands from outside Nagaland will also be conducted in few selected cities.

TaFMA will have close partnership deals with Gibson Guitar India, Rolling Stone India and Hard Rock Cafe for the Hornbill Music Festival.

The main Hornbill Music Festival will take place in Dimapur. For Kohima, mega concerts will spread over multiple venues, hotels, cafes, halls including box office show at Kisama Bamboo Hall, evening concerts at Kisama main arena and box office show at RCEMPA Jotsoma.

 
Nagaland Choir Olympics

TaFMA will also be conducting audition for the Nagaland Choir Olympics on September 27. The finale has been scheduled at RCEMPA Jotsoma on October 23. The winner of this Choir Olympics will participate at the forthcoming 11th World Choir Games to be held in Belgium next year.