Bangladesh Rock Music (popularly called band music) was never lagging behind in its appreciation and performance of Baul music. Post 1971, among the five legends of Bangla rock such as Azam Khan, ...
The British agenda of divide and rule saw the partition of India in 1947 precipitated by severe communal riots in Bengal and divide the Baul movement along sectarian lines. It led to the creation of ...
In March 2012, London-based British-Bengali band Khiyo released an audio version of Amar Sonar Bangla, the Bangladeshi national anthem. “One of the people to hear it was Shahriyar Rahman,” says Sohini ...
Dressed in a red and white lehenga, Genelia Deshmukh has won every Bengali heart as she plays ektara, a traditional folk music instrument, and dances on the popular Bengali Baul song, 'Piriti ...
AN ORGANISATION in Bradford has secured funds for a project to revive the writing of Baul music in the district. Originating in Bangladesh and the neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal, Baul music ...
Anwar Choudhury, former British ambassador to Bangladesh, made the announcement at a press conference on Saturday. The show has been titled ‘Celebrating the Soul of Music.’ Music group Oxford ...
The Baul legend's departure has created a permanent vacuum in folk music. 'Gari cholena, cholena, cholena re …. gari cholena' the mortal engines of the physical vehicle belonging to the great ...
On 1 August 1971, The Beatles guitarist George Harrison and the Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar took to a New York City stage to launch a humanitarian appeal for Bangladesh. The nation was then in the ...
Bauls, the itinerant minstrels from Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, are heterogeneous communities who believe in a diverse and hybrid spiritual philosophy expressed through their songs and music in ...