{"id":6716,"date":"2016-08-15T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/?p=6716"},"modified":"2019-06-15T20:32:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T00:32:43","slug":"mosaic-festival-jasmine-sandlas-benny-dayal-karsh-kale-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/mosaic-festival-jasmine-sandlas-benny-dayal-karsh-kale-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Hosting Mosaic Festival with Jasmine Sandlas, Benny Dayal, Karsh Kale and More! (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Hey everyone!<\/h4>\n<h4>This weekend I hosted the <span style=\"color: #ed0965;\">11<sup>th<\/sup> annual TD Mosaic Festival<\/span>. The festival ran from August 12-13 at Celebration Square in Mississauga with a great musical concert!<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471195734716-01_1.jpeg\" alt=\"PhotoGrid_1471195734716-01_1\" width=\"424\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471195734716-01_1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471195734716-01_1-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>The festival is the longest running arts festival in Mississauga and they bring together local and international artists from all over for a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcglobal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 experience. This year, the line-up was fantastic!<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200673820_1.jpg\" alt=\"FB_IMG_1471200673820_1\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200673820_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200673820_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0039743795063875\" data-ad-slot=\"8854053477\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h4>On Friday night, we had local artists <span style=\"color: #ed0965;\">Saram Jaffery, Shobha Shekher, Shivani Billal,Taal Shakti, and SW Storm<\/span> perform along with my girl <span style=\"color: #ed0965;\">Mizz Taj<\/span> who got the party going with her urban Punjabi dance mix. The headliner was the lovely <span style=\"color: #ed0965;\">Jasmine Sandlas<\/span> who you all may remember I met just a couple months ago and that was the first time I got the chance to check out her set in person. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edgy and she can get you dancing so I knew the crowd would love her and they did! She was sooooo good and as a special treat, she premiered her new single \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSara College\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at the show! (P.S I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in love with that red hair!)<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_6720\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6720\" class=\" wp-image-6720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200662098_1.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Sandlas\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200662098_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200662098_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Sandlas<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>On Saturday, the musical performances continued on but with a little bit of a twist. As I arrived to the site, it began raining hard and while it rained on and off throughout the night, the crowd didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let the weather bring them down! By the time we had our Saturday night headliner act come on, the square was packed and everyone was in the mood to keep the party going no matter what. Hey, a little rain never hurt anybody right?<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_6721\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6721\" class=\" wp-image-6721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160814_142633_1.jpg\" alt=\"A little rain can't stop us!\" width=\"549\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160814_142633_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160814_142633_1-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160814_142633_1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A little rain can&#8217;t stop us!<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>The headliner on Saturday was <span style=\"color: #ed0965;\">Karsh Kale<\/span> who presented a special Coke Studio tribute with fellow singers <span style=\"color: #ed0965;\">Benny Dayal<\/span> (who was performing in Mississauga for the first time) and <span style=\"color: #ed0965;\">Apeksha Dandekar<\/span>. I loved how they finished their set with the song \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPurple Rain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Prince. Quite fitting for the day. Of course, we had to end the festival with a BANG and we did that with a spectacular Bollywood dance performance by the <span style=\"color: #ed0965;\">Shiamak Davar Toronto Dance<\/span> team who choreographed their performance just for Mosaic!<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_6722\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6722\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200376376_1.jpg\" alt=\"Apeksha and Benny\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200376376_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FB_IMG_1471200376376_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apeksha and Benny<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0039743795063875\" data-ad-slot=\"8854053477\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Special shout out to the amazing Mosaic Festival committee for putting together a great show and a shout out to the wonderful team at MediaWorks! and Sumit Ahuja for keeping things organized backstage. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done enough of these live shows to know that while you can plan as much as you want, when it comes down to the actual show date you never know what unexpected things will come up. For us, it was the weather but the team was so good in adjusting and making sure the show went on!<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_6724\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6724\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471197810027_1.jpg\" alt=\"Views from the stage...What a turnout!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471197810027_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471197810027_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Views from the stage&#8230;What a turnout!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160814_144247_1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160814_144247_1\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160814_144247_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160814_144247_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Here are some of my photos from the festival. I had a total blast hosting the festival\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthanks to everyone who came out for being an awesome crowd!<\/h4>\n<h4>[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=&#8221;1&#8243; gal_title=&#8221;TD Mosaic Festival 2016&#8243;]<\/h4>\n<h4>If you were at the show, let me know what your favorite highlights were!<\/h4>\n<p>Photo credit: amindhillon.com, Mosaic Festival<\/p>\n<p>*************<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #f50f44;\">WHERE ELSE TO FIND ME!<\/span><br \/>\nFACEBOOK: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/miss.amindhillon\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/miss.amindhillon<\/a><br \/>\nINSTAGRAM: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/amindhillon\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/amindhillon<\/a><br \/>\nYouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/theglamourg\">www.youtube.com\/theGlamourG<\/a><br \/>\nTWITTER: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/amindhillon\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/amindhillon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone! This weekend I hosted the 11th annual TD Mosaic Festival. The festival ran from August 12-13 at Celebration Square in Mississauga with a great musical concert! The festival is the longest running arts festival in Mississauga and they bring together local and international artists from all over for a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcglobal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 experience. This year,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[638,636,31,635,637,639,633,605],"class_list":["post-6716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloglife","tag-apeksha-dandekar","tag-benny-dayal","tag-bollywood","tag-jasmine-sandlas","tag-karsh-kale","tag-mizz-taj","tag-mosaic-festival","tag-south-asian-festival"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6716"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}