As like Olympic for sports, Delphic is for the music, art n culture. The committee for the Olympic Games was initiated at a place named Olympia whereas for Delphic it was initiated at Delphy.Both are the official committees from Greece.
3rd Delphic Games held at Jeju, South Korea from 9th-15th September, 2009.
On 14th September 2009, it was the event of Individual Percussions where my father performed the mesmerising Dhol Badon with 5 Assamese Drums for 10 minutes and made a history by winning the Gold Medal. He became the first Indian to win the Gold Medal in World Music Competition named Delphic Games. The World has recognised the Assamese Drum "Dhol" or Talking Drum to be the best Acoustic Instrument.
Where 56 countries namely America, England, Thailand, Japan, Philippines, Serbia etc had participated. In this event of Individual Percussions there was 82 participants including my father. He defeated rest of the 81 participants & became the winner and the only Indian to win Gold Medal in any of the season of Delphic Games till date.
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