Destination Bangalore

You can’t go wrong if you combine great music and art with great food. That seems to be the hope for the organisers of the Big Junction Jam festival,which will take place in Bangalore’s Nalpad Pavilion Palace Grounds on June 18 and 19. The event will feature performances in 10 genres of music such as folk rock,blues,jazz,rock,metal,funk and Carnatic. The headlining acts include Swarathma,Kryptos,Blakc and Evergreen.

The culinary part of the festival will feature chefs and bakers from various hotel management institutes who will demonstrate new cooking styles,recipes and food presentation techniques. The highlight here will be Sahil Makhija of Demonic Resurrection,who will set up his popular Headbanger’s Kitchen at the festival.

The arts segment of the festival will include live art,galleries,workshops,tattoo parlours and face painting sessions,apart from a flea market where craftsmen will sell their wares. The festival organisers’ ambition is certainly impressive: hopefully,it will match,or even surpass,the success of last year’s Bacardi NH7 in Pune. Then India will really have more than one cultural festival to boast of.