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Thank you for your participation

Thank you all for performing and listening to the world's first global celebration of Rabindranath Tagore's birth anniversary on live radio broadcast. Performers from Italy, Bangladesh, India, United States and Canada sang songs, recited poems, and had discussion sessions that were enjoyed by listeners from Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Indian subcontinent, Europe, North America and even a couple of listeners from Africa and South America.

Here is the complete unedited recording of the program, including the two times that our stream server choked up! Thanks for your patience and your understanding and standing by us during our unforseen technical challenges during organizing an event like this for the first time in the world.

The original post announcing this event is retained below for archival and historical value.

To celebrate Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary, VNN Bangla News Network (www.vnnbangla.com) and WBRi Washington Bangla Radio are organizing a gala live radio show bringing together singers, elocution artists and narrators from across the world in a single 3-hour long program on May 9, 2010.

DATE: SUNDAY MAY 9, 2010

TIME: 9 PM INDIAN  STANDARD TIME / 11:30 AM US EASTERN / 8:30 AM US PACIFIC

CHANNEL: WBRi CHANNEL-2 - available here

The program will be anchored in VNN Bangla studios in Baltimore, Maryland while live production and broadcast will be done by CHANNEL-2 (Special Programs) of WBRi Washington Bangla Radio from the WBRi Studios and Corporate Headquarters in Germantown, Maryland, USA. The landmark show will be jointly hosted by VNN and WBRi. Various artists from across the planet will participate in this first-of-a-kind radio show sitting in their own room in their own country.

Please tune in and make this pioneering effort a huge success.

List of Participants