The music event of Neplai Week

By Seishiro Kabata (The fountain staff)

Dec 20, 2018

Rozina believed that Nepali music would be acceptable for many people regardless of his or her country, and she hoped that various people would come to the Tihar Night Thursday night in the APU cafeteria.

  

Rozina, a third-year student at APU from Nepal, organized Tihar night, which was the music event held at the APU cafeteria space Dec 20, 2018. She is a member of the Nepali Week which is held from December 17 to 21, and Tihar Night was one of the Nepali Week programs.

 

Tihar Night was named after Nepali festival, Tihar. “Tihar is very lively and enjoyable festival, and I like the atmosphere of this.” Rozina explained that, “I wanted to make it fun like that, and I chose songs having similar atmosphere.”

In the Tihar Night, some people performed eight songs, and it included a dance performance. In addition, a member of them taught people how to sing a Duesi, which is a traditional song sung in the Nepali festival.

“I decided the track list of songs included Nepali music but also English and Japanese songs.” Rozina said, “Since I predicted that many kinds of people will come, I thought it is boring if we use only Nepali language.”

As she said, they are mixed with some kinds of music, rock, ballad, country music. Audience members listened to their performance and enjoyed, also someone sang with them and danced in their performances.

                                    Performance of them

At the last, a Japanese song Soranin by Japanese rock band Asian kung-fu generation was played. “Many member of Nepali Week like Japanese songs. Since we live in Japan now, I chose this song as a last,” Rozina said.

She later explained, “Duesi can be changed the lyrics, and we made it easy to sing together for Japanese people.”

“Duesi is an enjoyable festival like a Halloween.” She explained about Duesi gladly, “I sung this in the Tihar with my friend, but people were singing together regardless for Senpai and Kouhai.”

Rozina gathered members of the Tihar night by asking in the cafeteria booth, and it took about one month for performance. “I was glad to see various people came,” she said. “The number of visitor were larger than I expected. I thought that our efforts were rewarded.”

At the end, she said. “If you get interested in Nepali music and culture, I am glad if you come to the Grand Show in the Millennium Hole at Dec 21.”