KOLKATA: Musical treasures such as Baul and Bhatiyali are set for a new life, thanks to an initiative taken by the Rajya Sangeet Academy to prepare a chronicle of indigenous music of Bengal. KOLKATA: ...

Star Melodies, an initiative of The Daily Star to promote Bangla music, will host a special musical programme, titled, Prakriti – Upomaye Gaantha Bangla Gaan (Nature as Literary Metaphors Used in ...

If you crave the touch of culture, revisit one of Bengal’s most prized forms of art this Durga Puja. The Bannabagram Baul Ashram is a tribute to baul gaan, a form of folk music embedded in the very ...

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, ...

Radio Misty 94.3 fm, the first and Number one fm station of North Bengal joined hands with Bangla Gaan Utsav committee to organize path-breaking festival of Bengali songs. The four-day festival had ...

Baul music is simply not gaan or music, but also a convergence of gyaan or knowledge. This is 18th century “rural info-taintment” if we may that has survived until today. During the times of Fakir ...

The Upazila administration has halted a “Bichar gaan” event in Faridpur’s Nagarkanda and dismantled the pandal built for it. Nagarkanda Upazila administrator (UNO) Dobir Uddin informed journalists ...

The story of the musical short revolves around a relationship between a mother and her daughter. But as the film got shelved 'Prithibi' planned to release it ahead of Durga Puja. What’s more ...