Traditional Baul musical instrument makers in Kushtia and adjacent districts of Meherpur, Chuadanga and Jhenidah have their hands full, meeting orders ahead of the five-day memorial festival marking ...

Fete de la Musique, or World Music Day, is celebrated in many countries across the world, but the initiators of the festival, France, still celebrates it in higher spirit than most others. As part of ...

An exasperated British rock musician once remarked, after stewing in his own juice at a Baul festival in the village of Boral, now a part of the city of Kolkata: “There are none so sedentary as the ...

Bob Dylan would often visit a studio at Woodstock, New York, where the Baul musicians Purna Das, his brother Luxman and their entourage would hang out in 1967-68. Purna Das, now 83, remembers the ...

Pete Lockett talks to us about collaborating with folk artistes, Bollywood & more... Pete Lockett talks to us about collaborating with folk artistes, Bollywood & more A generously tattooed body, the ...

Thirty-seven years after Asia’s first Nobel laureate, the Bengali cultural polymath Rabindranath Tagore, declared himself a ‘madcap baul’ in his Hibbert lecture in Oxford, UK – in a display of ...