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The 2010 event attracted over 30,000 visitors and featured a performance from [[Bombay Rockers]]. |
The 2010 event attracted over 30,000 visitors and featured a performance from [[Bombay Rockers]]. |
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The Cardiff Mela is also part of Cardiff Festivals which is a series of events that include live music, street theatre, open-air theatre, children’s entertainment and funfairs. Cardiff Festival provides a mix of popular, well-established and new events that take place in the city centre and around Cardiff Bay.<ref>[http://www.cardiff-festival.com/mela_e.htm Cardiff Festivals]</ref> |
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==2010 Event== |
==2010 Event== |
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Revision as of 14:46, 9 October 2010
The Cardiff Mela is also known as the Cardiff Multicultural Mela is an annual large-scale outdoor multicultural festival, held in the city's Roald Dahl Plass, in Cardiff Bay. It celebrates many cultural aspects of Asian life, particularly music and dance. The 2009 festival featured bhangra, bollywood and rnb singers including H Dhami,Mumzy Stranger and Navin Kundra amongst others. [1]
The 2010 event attracted over 30,000 visitors and featured a performance from Bombay Rockers.
The Cardiff Mela is also part of Cardiff Festivals which is a series of events that include live music, street theatre, open-air theatre, children’s entertainment and funfairs. Cardiff Festival provides a mix of popular, well-established and new events that take place in the city centre and around Cardiff Bay.[2]
2010 Event
In 2010, the mela was part of a special national partnership entitled 'Planes, Trains and Rickshaws' which saw the two performers start their day in Cardiff Bay, followed by a trip down the M4 to the London Mela, then flying north to end their journey on the Edinburgh Festival Mela stage, performing at all three events in the same day. [3]