Band to mark church festival

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Kerala-based group will enliven Shillong celebrations
Shillong, Oct. 29 : A performance by Rex band, which proposes to spread cheer through music, will be the highlight of the weeklong platinum jubilee celebrations of the Shillong Archdiocese, beginning November 1.
Archbishop Dominic Jala announced this at a news conference today.
The music will be telecast live in Shillong.
The Kerala-based band, Rex, fuses together a lot of musical styles, including Indian classical and folk music, as well as popular songs.
In the past decade, Rex has performed contemporary Christian music in over 600 venues around the world, including the West Asian countries, Southeast Asia, several cities in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Germany.
The band had also performed at the World Youth Day celebrations at Toronto, Cologne and Sydney.
The Archbishop said the purpose of inviting Rex was to encourage the music-loving youths of Shillong and inculcate the values of life through music.
During the past 75 years, this Catholic church has grown and spread all over Northeast India.
There are now 15 dioceses in the entire region.
The platinum jubilee celebrations in Shillong will have Rev. Pedro Lopez Quintana, the Apostolic Nuncio, the representative of Pope Benedict XVI in India, and also by Rev. Fr Pascual Chavez Villanueva, the superior general of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
All the Archbishops and bishops of the Northeast will also be present for the programme.
A public reception for these guests will be held on November 7 at the Catholic Cathedral ground at Laitumkhrah — an occasion that will have in attendance Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary, chief minister D.D. Lapang and deputy chief minister B.M. Lanong.
Before that, on November 6, the church will honour couples who have celebrated their golden and silver wedding anniversaries.
“This is to acknowledge that the family as the most important unit of society and of the Church,” the Archbishop said.
On November 5, the Catholic Church will honour more than 1,000 church leaders who are the mainstay of its mission in the towns and villages.