Kerala’s first international indie music festival will be held from November 9 to 13 at the Kerala Arts and Crafts Village in Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram. Along with seven leading bands and singers from outside India, 14 leading bands from India will perform the music festival. The International Indie Music Festival (IIMF) is organized in association with Lazie Indie Magazine, an international publication on indie music.
Indie music is music in which music bands compose their own songs, record music and perform with well-equipped instruments, sound and light systems. IIMF is the country’s first and foremost festival in this field, the organizers said in a press conference. This marks the beginning of Kerala’s annual music festival, which will be like the international film festival (IFFK) and theatre festival (ITFOK).
Bands and singers like rock music legend Eric Clapton’s nephew Wil Johns from UK, popular American hard rock singer Sami Chohfi, another British band Rane, Lyia Meta from Malaysia, Anslom from Papua New Guinea, Rudra from Singapore and Roc Flowers from Italy will be flying to Kerala to portray their talents. These are singers who have won international awards and are very popular in their own countries.
Participating Indian bands are Mumbai’s Sherise, RCliff, When Chai Met Toast, Harish Sivaramakrishnan’s Agam, Skreen 6, Sithara Krishnakumar’s Project Malabaricus, Oorali, Job Kurian, Chaos, Lazie J, Chandana Rajesh, Thamarassey Churam, Inner Sanctum and Devan Ekambaram.
As many as 21 bands will participate in the event. There will be four to five performances per day. Many fans of foreign singers and indie music will also be coming from abroad. The festival also provides an opportunity for Indian artists to get to know the leading singers of the world, play instruments with them and thereby rise to the global level.
The music festival is from 6 pm to 10 pm every day. The Entry will be given from 5 pm. Tickets for each day’s event can be booked through Book My Show. Tickets can also be purchased through the Kerala Arts & Crafts Village. Booking ends on November 6. Regular visit time to the Crafts Village will end at 5 pm on festival days.
A dozen installations, a stage and a gate are being prepared for the IIMF at the Craft Village premises with a focus on the theme of Liberation. These are prepared by prominent architects NA Plus.
