<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">The registration for Joy Bangla concert kicked off today with an overwhelming rush among youth music lovers to enjoy the unique blend to bring alive Bangladesh's history through music.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This year the concert will take place on March 8 at Army Stadium in the capital, under the supervision of Centre for Research and Information (CRI), Young Bangla, one of the leading youth networks of Bangladesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Young Bangla has been holding the rock concert since 2015 to rejuvenate the spirit of the Liberation War of Bangladesh among youths.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Concert goers are requested to log into - ticket.youngbangla.org-- , to avail their e-tickets.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For registration, the participants will require their passport-sized photos and images of their ID cards with photos. Besides NIDs, ID cards of their educational institutions, passports, and driving licenses will also be accepted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Keeping up with the previous years' unique trend, the concert this year is set to feature iconic and emerging bands of the country such as Artcell, Avoid Rafa, Lalon, Chirkutt, Cryptic Fate, Karnival, Meghdol, Nemesis and Arekta Rock Band.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The youths who jumped, screamed, and danced to the western-influenced rock genre and the wartime patriotic melodies are now upbeat about relishing that electrifying vibe that the pandemic halted for last two years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The last edition in 2020 is a memorable experience for me-that concert so vividly recreated the unique blend of history and music what made that a memorable one-The idea of rendering songs that were aired on the wartime secret radio station called Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra 50 years ago inspired the Freedom Fighters to free the country is really exemplary," said Rajin, a university student.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"In no better way than this tribute to the historic March 7 speech by the father of the nation could make it relevant and interesting for our generation... Expecting a bigger and better return this time", added another university student Sujon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With a call to roar like March 7, favourite bands presented several Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra songs before an audience of this generation at previous editions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Started in 2015, in successive years, the country's biggest concert for youths added some special features such as presentation of the coloured version of the speech in 2016.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The speech, transformed from black and white into colour, appeared onscreen before an audience of 30,000 youths at the concert. BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>