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Photos: The Pine Tree Music Festival Brought Electrifying Rock and Metal to Kurseong

A host of arena-ready acts ranging from Girish and The Chronicles to Trance Effect and Taba Chake took the stage for the fourth edition

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The hills of Kurseong got a solid dose of reverberation thanks to the Pine Tree Music Festival, which was held between October 15th and 16th. The fourth edition of the festival brought in metal, rock, singer-songwriters and folk-fusion for those gathered from the North East states, Nepal and West Bengal, among other regions.

Headline performances included singer-songwriter Taba Chake, heavy metallers Girish and The Chronicles, Nepali rock frontrunners Albatross, fresher acts like Salakhala and dependable rock favorites such as Gingerfeet, Trance Effect, Street Stories and more. Among the local artists taking the stage were tech-death metal band Obliterating Vortex, singer-songwriter Raman lama aka Nineteen and Meraki.

Photos: Tshering Choden Wangdi and Disha Malviya/Courtesy of Lensbug and Pine Tree Music Festival

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