The artists real journey in the musical circles can be said to have begun when Nabajyoti bagged the first position in the All Assam Music conference .This was soon followed by another laurel in the Dibrugarh University youth festival where he once again bagged the top position. He was a casual artist of All India Radio Dibrugarh & Guwahati, NEWS LIVE & Ne TV Guwahati,Red FM 93.5V & M Vadodara. He was closely associated with SPIC-MACAY in the late eighties to early nineties through which he got the
chance to accompany a number of prominent artists of the country. Nabajyoti Dowarah has the credit of performing tabla solo on various stages of Lucknow music sanmilan, Delhi musical society, Varanasi music festival,Kolkata sashtriya mohatsav, Hyderabad classical conference, Bangalore musical society, Dimapur classical music festival and Shillong folk festival, Guwahati kolakhetra, Golden jubilee of AEC
besides many towns in the Northeast.