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The Glasgow Mela brought over 40,000 people to Kelvingrove Park on Sunday (July 2) for another amazing celebration at Scotland’s biggest free multicultural festival.

Among the headliners were Roshan Prince who is known as an actor and music producer as well as a singer and musician, Siddhendra Kuchipudi Arts Academy, dance group Raginee, the Dhollu Kunitha Group, the Adeel Chishti Qawali Group, Asad Abass, the Desi Bravehearts, Abhinaya Dance, Sheboom, and the Kennedy Cupcakes.

The event uses the Kelvingrove Bandstand as well as two specially built stages to deliver dozens of performances with even more taking place across Kelvingrove Park. In all, hundreds of performers took part from all over Glasgow and the world.

For the first time the Mela hosted a craft village that featured demonstrations and workshops.

Glasgow’s first Mela was in 1990 as part of the European City of Culture and was an indoor celebration at the then newly opened Tramway.

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It has grown to a massive outdoor event which attracts tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of artists and performers from all over the world.

Coming from the Sanskrit word “to meet”, the Mela has become an eagerly anticipated fixture on the cultural calendar of the city.