I came to know from Teilang that a band from Shillong will be playing at a concert somewhere near CP at around 8 pm. I invited my good friend Riwin whom I have not met since 2005. Our rendezvous was Meghalaya house at 6.30 pm. The venue, which we later came to know, was an open air theatre, and the concert was part of the event called 'Romancing India's Northeast: An Akshara Theatre Celebration'. The most striking thing about the venue however, was that it was just behind the 'Trauma Care Centre' of the Dr. R.M. L. Hospital!!
...and I was pretty sure that either the patients were getting traumatised or revitalised, and I hope it was the latter since these days 'music therapy' is in...and though it would probably be the first open air blues therapy session they would have ever experienced, I sure hope it kicked some immune cells into action.
Soulmate, the blues band from Shillong was already playing by the time we parked our behinds on the chairs facing the stage. The music was undoubtedly very groovy...Rudy with the guitar was excellent as was Tipriti with her characteristic raw-smooth vocals. The band rendered cover songs as well as self-composed ones, among which the blues version of the Khasi song 'Sier Lapalang' got me and my friends cheering at the top of our voices.
Soulmate in the act "Voodoo Woman"
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