Gaana Music Festival

They need to be more coordinated. It was very poorly organized. Food was short. The ended the show very poorly without any grand finale. It was not worth the money. False advertising. They did not rehearse well, sound quality was poor

I can t wait to go next year. The music, venue, dancing was great fun.

Shoreline - terrible choice - too cold, alcohol too expensive, long lines not enough amenities. Other places like SAP - same issues with pricing BUT many options very very closeby for food and drink so relying on SAP not needed. Day 1 lineup: Usha Uthup - FANTASTIC - a real performer! Benny Dayal - Great! Mika singh - JUST FANTASTIC Amaan and Armaan Malik - Great! Kanika Kapoor - terrible, if brought back again should be instructed to JUST SING. Not make woohoo noises or get the audience to sing! Gippy Grewal - everyone knew he was lip syncing. Get rid of him Sonu Nigam - not performing FATAL FLAW as people paid to see HIM DAY 2: Indian Raaga - good Penn masala - so so Arko - terrible Ayushman - great! Arijit Singh - FATAL FLAW NOT GIVING HIM FULL 2 hours PLUS NOT letting him know how much time he had left so he could do his most popular numbers which the audience wanted Kakkar sisters - ok, nothing great. Wouldn t pay to see them. Thank you for keeping the ads to a minimum

The venue was great. It was like a mini Hollywood bowl type and the whole event was like mini coachella-esque. I bought the tickets for a good view and great sound quality and that is where I went wrong. The view was great , but the sound in section 102 was too loud and the organisers won't reduce the bass as people in the back needed to hear the sound too.The Mallik brothers were great on the first day, so was Usha Uthup. Benny Dayal was OK and I think that there must have been some problems with his earphones as the background music and his voice were discordant at times. Gippy was Ok.kanika Kapoor was good.. mika Singh for me was more of a showman that a good live singer as he would skip the hard parts and let the chorus sing or the public join in. The best part was the 2nd day, the loud bass was a little less loud ( still 90 %). Didn't hear Indian Raaga, but my sister who was there told me that was good. Ayushmann Khuraana and the Kakkar sisters were great. Arko was baad. Penn Masala was not so good ( I had recently heard Texas A and M asian A Capella group and they are brilliant ). Arijit Singh was brilliant and I have no words to express his command over the notes and approach. I am from Los angeles and flew just to see his performance and I can say that I was aptly rewarded. I have heard Sonu Nigam before and he is great, but Arijit singh live , in my opinion ,is the best Indian music live show. I did not think that the show was % stars for the above reasons, but since this is the first of it's kind, I am sure the organisers can iron out the kinks better next year. I will surely come back again next year (Los Angeles or anywhere else ), but get a seat in the 202 section or so. Hope the review helps

The artists were awesome. But enough time wasn't given to the main artist who barely performed for 1.5 hours out of 10 hours. The sound effects person was horrible and did not adjust the sound levels for an open amphitheatre.

Show was good. But the lawn was so far away from the stage that the artists were literally not visible. Considering that, I'd say the price of the ticket could have been a bit lower. Only possible way to watch the artists sing was to look at projector screens, but the screen in front of the lawn area was not switched on till very late in the evening.

Except Armaan/Amal Malik portions, the event was pathetic. Special mention for Kanika and Benny to make it awful.