North American Bengali Conference (NABC) 2017, a three-day annual conference, is held each year in different cities across USA. This year the conference was held in the heart of the world famous Silicon Valley – in the city of Santa Clara, California, and was attended by about 5000 local and international music lovers. Organizers played a magnificent role and got tremendous appreciation towards managing this gigantic event efficiently, to make it a grand success. Renowned artists, filmmakers, singers, poets and musicians of Bengal, not to mention eminent literary figures, were invited to this conference to showcase the brilliance of Bengali culture and heritage.
Rini Mukherjee, an incredible talent and an established singer from New Delhi, mesmerized the audience with her singing on Salil Choudhury's compositions on high octaves with difficult meters. Her melodious renditions and supremacy in higher octave drew rich applause. "The moment I heard Rini singing, I was reminded of Lata Mangeshkar. Her voice is versatile, melodious, and enthralling", said Surajit Sengupta, a member of the Steering Committee at the conference. "The audience cheered through her remarkable performance," he added.
Rana Bose, a member of the Organizing Committee was full of praise for Rini's rendering of Salil Choudhury's songs, "Her singing reminded me of an era gone by, a period of time when Bengal had reached a new height in melody", he commented. "NABC looks forward to Rini's participation in the years to come," added Bose.
Among the leading film directors, actors, actresses, poets, singers from Bengal, Sandip Ray, Aparna Sen, Rituparna Ghosh, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Ranjit Mallick, Tanusree Shankar, Debojyoti Mishra, Subodh Sarkar were present on this occasion.