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Live Blog: Dutch Trade Mission to India 2019 – #NLIndia
DesiYUP is attending the Dutch Trade Mission to India 2019. During this trade mission, DesiYUP is Live Blogging the many activities is is participating in.
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Dear professional musician, never say that you will perform for free!
I am always honored to read emails sent by musicians or bands from across the globe. It’s good to know that DesiYUP is visible as an event organizer and that artists are interested to work with us. But dearest musicians and bands: offering your art for free is not the right approach to establish a relationship built on mutual respect and equality. There are many event organizers and concert promoters who take advantage of upcoming talent. They are eager to make artists perform for free and earn some easy money. This irresponsible attitude damages the entire live performing scene in my opinion.
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Muses of Mindfulness – 15 June 2019
Every story comes to end…the story of this festival started 7 month’s ago and was concluded with an audience who experienced my 3 muses of mindfulness: Anirban, Hemang and Prewien. In this blog I will describe the highlights of the 24th DesiYUP event and mention the people who participated to create fine moments for all of us who were present on June 15th in De Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague.
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DesiYUP connects with Indie-musicians in Mumbai
Holland based company DesiYUP is organizing an Artist Networking Event for Indie-musicians and singers. The event is taking place in JW Marriott Mumbai on the 18th of October. Singer-songwriter Rajni Shivaram is flying over from Bangelore to perform for this soulful meet and greet with talented musicians, singers and artistes.
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The last living Khayál master, Ustad Saami, keeps a thousand-year-old tradition alive at the risk of his own life
The 75-year old Pakistani Ustad Saami is one of the last remaining musicians to practice a thousand-year-old tradition of the Khayál music, widely considered a precursor of qawwali music that originated in Pakistan. Even under threat of Islamic fundamentalists,...
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Asha Puthli, remarkable multi-genre musician from Mumbai, to give rare live performance in Utrecht
74-year old singer Asha Puthli was born and raised in Mumbai. At a young age, she already made it her mission to merge traditional Indian influences with Western pop. Throughout her remarkable career, she has grown to become one of the most valued musicians from...
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The ultimate cause of disease is stress
“Playing music with others or enjoying live music stimulates the cuddle hormone oxytocin.” Everybody knows what stress is, but most of us find it difficult to prevent stress or lower down our stress levels. Stress is a general activation reaction to a stimulus...
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Learn Leadership Skills like a Conductor
MInDZ (“Muziek in de Zorg”) is a project of Dino and Teun, two Erasmus MC medical students. The purpose of this project is to develop music-based understanding by organizing lectures and attending concerts.
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The Mozart-effect in Hospitals
MAM (Music as Medicine) Foundation is doing research on music as an innovative method for medical treatments in and outside the medical health care system their research is ‘evidence based’.
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