Lok Virsa to resume Music classes for music lovers tomorrow (Saturday).

ISLAMABAD -- National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage, Lok Virsa will resume its four month music classes including Bansuri, Rubab, Tabla, Sitar, Harmonium and singing here from March 29 for music lovers and upcoming singers.

The classes will be held on weekends for encouraging the music lovers to be part of this opportunity and take time out to learn an instrument. Music maestros including Adnan Haider for Rubab, Salman Adil for Bansuri, Nazakat Ali for Harmonium and Singing , Amanat Ali for Tabla and Amir Hussain for Sitar classes will transfer their expertise to the amateur musicians through basic and advanced skills.

Lok Virsa has the mandate to preserve, document and promote cultural heritage (both tangible and intangible). It is focusing on the promotion of folk heritage of Pakistan in a way that is relevant to people of all ages and backgrounds and to provide more meaning, depth and rooted in life.

The promotion of folk heritage will also create more space for expressing diversity within our culture, asserting cultural autonomy and dignity and could contribute towards being a stronger democracy and a stronger nation, said the organizers.

Salman Adil will conduct flute classes. He has been practicing and teaching flute for several years. A master musician, Salman will guide the participants about holding the Bansuri and basics, folk song tune, advanced folk tunes and beginning of classical music understanding, reading written notes to follow for playing more songs and preparation for a performance with the basics, to advance skills of playing Flute tunes to first...