Tribute: Lok Virsa to remember Allah Rakha

The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage Lok Virsa is organising a reference to pay tribute to legendary sarangi player Ustad Allah Rakha Khan on June 6 at 7pm at Lok Virsa Media Studios Garden Avenue Shakarparian. Lok Virsa Executive Director Dr Fouzia Saeed said “the demise of renowned sarangi player Ustad Allah Rakha Khan is a big loss. Unfortunately sarangi remains among instruments that are not being transferred to the younger generation. The only way we know of paying tribute to such an ustad is by playing and listening to sarangi”. We will invite his students and other artists to come together, think of his contribution and perform in his memory, she added.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 27^th, 2015.