Gujarat bands audition for cricket album

Now that the World Cup has entered its business end, the cricket fever in the nation has soared. Adding to the razzmatazz is a Cricket for Peace program where bands from the host nations -Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India will come together to create a music album.

On Wednesday, six bands from Gujarat performed at a city hotel to stake their claim to the album which will be launched on day prior to the World Cup final on April 2 in Mumbai.

The bands were to perform their own songs that would depict cricket as a game bridging gap between cultures and communities and bringing about a spirit of peace and harmony among its mass. Going by the performances, the bands from Gujarat put up an impressive show.

The young members of The Faculty chose a local problem and addressed it via their song. "Whenever the topic of peace comes up we think of our relations with Pakistan but we chose the local problem of communal discord in Gujarat for a song," says a young band member, Aniket Roy of The Faculty.

The touching song picked a line each from the holy books of Quran, Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Dropouts Kids, a band from Baroda urged people to come together and cheer the team irrespective of the result. The others who performed include, Meghdhanoosh, The Feather, Aavarah and Daftan. The winning band will get to record a song which will be featured in an album and three best singers will also be performing in Mumbai with singers from the other two host nations.