India | Posted on Nov 17, 2008 at 08:59pm IST

Preparations for Ravi Shankar concert begins

Shambhavi RaiShambhavi Rai, CNN-IBN

New Delhi: There are Promotional events in the capital for the Brahmnaad concert to be organised by the Art of Living Foundation. The concert would be the first of it's kind with 1,200 sitarists from across the country performing together for the 1st time ever on 1 stage.

The field is as large as 12 football grounds and a stage big enough to accommodate 1.500 people.

“I am very excited about the event, and I believe it is going to create history,” says a resident.

“When there is such an event, there is bliss in the air,” adds a participant.

The stage is one of it's kind. It is in the form of an Orissa temple and is built with state of the art technology. Artisans have been flown in especially from Orissa to work on it.

“A replica of mukteshwar temple is being built and 100 workers have been working every day for 12 days to put it together',” says Media coordinator, Sangeeta Anand.

Besides a 2 lakh live audience, the event would be watched the world over by more than 500 million people.

This is the stage from where 1,200 artists will perform and millions will watch from the 20th to 23rd of this month. This is seen to be a grand spectacle that hopes to make it to the Guiness book of world records.

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