In the history of Bengali folk music, Baul, Kirtan, Bhatiali and Bhawaiya songs have been revived and re-used the most. But Bengali folk is a rich labyrinth of melodies and cultures — there are ...

Crunchy riffs, searing guitar solos, triumphant blasts of sound, soulful melodies, singalong choruses, and folk and Bengali traditional songs in the new-age format meshed with the message of love and ...

Bangla folk music is a rich and diverse genre that has evolved over centuries in the eastern part of the subcontinent comprising the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, and Bangladesh. From the ...

After a sabbatical of more than four years, singer Iman Chakraborty has started working on a folk album once again There are four songs and Iman has already dubbed the songs for the videos. “The album ...

A genre called “Jibonmukhi Gaan” became popular in the early '90s in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, followed by a controversy over the word “Jibonmukhi” meaning life-oriented, because the other ...

The Tollygunge Academy of Folklore organised its annual two-day international seminar and convocation on 29 and 30 March. Hosted at the Jadavpur University, the theme of this year’s seminar focused on ...

Nagpur: Rangila Nao, a renowned all-women Bengali folk music band from Kolkata, will perform at the Saraswat Sabha Library Hall in Dhantoli, on Saturday at 7pm. The name Rangila Nao — which means ...

Bob Dylan just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. reason enough for you to listen to these singers who have either done a cover of his hit songs or adapted them in their native languages and given ...