Spring Fest - Star Nites

Star Nites

The evenings are notable for "Star-Nites" — the biggest events in Spring Fest which usually involve live concerts by some of the most famous musicians and bands in South Asia. The genres of music are wide and varied and involve pop, rock and fusion bands. The venue for these events is the Tagore Open Air Theater (TOAT) which usually gets packed to its full capacity during the "Star-Nites" as the students, faculty members turn up in huge numbers to see the shows. The security for these events is very tight and is managed by the students themselves. For latecomers, it is usually impossible to get a seat inside TOAT and sights such as students hanging on tree branches and on the high TOAT walls to catch a glimpse of the concert are not uncommon. These are some of the biggest concerts in Eastern India and attract a huge number of non-IIT Kharagpur students as well. Famous Indian artistes like Pritam, Kailash Kher, KK, S. P. Balasubramaniam, Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Vishal-Shekhar, Shweta Pandit, Shankar Mahadevan, Shivamani, Sukhwinder Singh and classical performers such as Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, L. Sriram, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Pandit Divyang Vakil have performed here. Bands like Kryptos, Parikrama, Euphoria, Indian Ocean, Strings etc. have also been performing here.

International bands like Breathe, the Floyd Sound, Led Zepplica and TesseracT have also performed on the famous Spring Fest stage. Last year's major performance was by Cassini's Division, the alternative rock band from Kolkata that has been featured as the finalist of Channel 's LaunchPad and the renowned Sutasi Festival.