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Lou Majaw Pays Tribute to Bob Dylan
Majaw is taking Dylan's music to thousands of children across schools in the region.
This year, Majaw had lined up two gigs dubbed “10 hours of beautiful music” in Shillong.
As a mark of respect for Dylan, eight bands from the northeastern states - Alive (Sikkim), D'Luzion (Assam), Cleave (Manipur), Evenflo (Mizoram), Incipit (Nagaland), Swraijak (Tripura), Symmetry Clan (Arunachal Pradesh) and Midnight Garden Factor (Shillong) got together and played his songs.
“It took me six years to get to know Lou. He is the only musician who has remained committed to Dylan and rock-and-roll all these years,” said filmmaker Ranjan Palit, who has made a documentary on Lou called ‘Forever Young’.
The first time when Palit met Majaw in 2001, the musician was playing Dylan numbers to a group of children in Shillong. “I remember him saying “Come in, it is a free country.” Then, I decided to go back and told him I wanted to make a movie on him. His eyebrows shot up and on my third visit I was allowed into his home,” Palit said.