Celebrated singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will perform at a charity concert for supporting families of victims of the student-led mass uprising in December in Dhaka.
Students鈥� platform Spirits of July will organise the charity concert titled Echoes of Revolution at Bangladesh Army Stadium in the capital on December 21.
The earnings from the concert will be donated to the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation to support the families of the martyrs and the injured persons during the uprising.
Organisers on Friday made the announcement at a press conference held at Madhu鈥檚 Canteen in Dhaka University.
DU students and Spirits of July members Hasan Mahmud Rizvi, Sadekur Rahman Sunny, Md Jafor Ali and Wahid-Uz-Zaman in a joint statement announced that a contract was signed with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan on November 28.
鈥楬e decided to perform at our concert without remuneration and the amount collected from the concert will also be donated to the families of the martyrs and injured,鈥� said Rizvi.
The organisers also announced that local bands Artcell, Chirkutt, Ashes, Aftermath and rap singers Sezan and Hannan would also perform with token fees in the concert.
The concert will also feature a graffiti exhibition related to the uprising, theatre productions and Mugdho Water Corner, the organisers said.
Tickets for the concert will be available for sale in the first week of December, the organisers said, adding that tickets would be available in three categories and the prices of the tickets would be decided soon.
Jafor said that Spirits of July and July Shaheed Smrity Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding on November 12 to donate the concert earnings to the foundation to support affected families.
An advisory board comprising DU teachers and eminent personalities had been formed to ensure transparency in financial matters and to provide advice, said the organisers.
The concert鈥檚 sponsor Prime Bank deputy managing director Ziaur Rahman, DU AF Rahman Hall provost Quazi Mahfujul Hoque Supan, DU institute of modern languages professor Mohammed Ansarul Alam and DU sociology department associate professor Mohammad Mahbub Quaisar, among others, were present at the press conference.