AN ASIAN music festival in a North-East park will be enjoyed around the world.
The sights and sounds of the Mela in Middlesbrough later this month will be relayed on the Internet.
Thousands of spectators from the north of England are expected to converge on Albert Park, on Sunday, July 20, to see performers including Malkit Singh, who is in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's biggest-selling bhangra star, Bengali singer Alaur Rahman, who has released 25 albums, and Pakistani singer Khadija, described as the most promising female act to emerge from Pakistan in the past two years.
Volunteers from community groups, Mela organisers, students and computer experts from the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough, will transmit activities on to the Internet site at www.radioriverside.co.uk.
Photographers will tour the park taking pictures that will be put on the website, with video interviews, from a temporary studio in the university. There will also be the world's first skydiving webcast, filmed via an RAF parachutist's helmet webcam as he drops into the park.
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