➡ Renowned flautist Keshav Ginde to get Pt. Bhimsen Joshi award
Renowned flautist Pandit Keshav Ginde shall be conferred this year’s prestigious Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Lifetime Achievement Award for Classical Music, Maharashtra’s Cultural Affairs Minister Vinod Tawde announced here on Tuesday.
The annual award, instituted by Maharashtra, honours maestros in classical music and singing, and carries a cash award of Rs 500,000, a memento and a citation, he added.
Born in 1942 in Belgaum, Karnataka, Pt.Ginde hails from a family of musicians and at age six, learnt to play the Mridangam from his grandfather, Pandit Damodar Ginde.