Kolkata hosts show on Bengali folk songs
Mahajani Gaan was inaugurated by Sabyasachi Basu Roy Chaudhury, Vice Chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University, with Ranjan Prasad as the chief guest, and Malabasree Das, Member Secretary, State Sangeet Akademi, as the special guest.
Presented at Mahajani Gaan were songs composed by Bhabopreeta Ojha, Deen Sharat, Jadubindu, Rashiduddin, Haure Gosain (Motilal Sanyal), Bijoy Sarkar and Sadhan Das Bairagya – seven of the best known padakartas (composers) in greater Bengal’s near–300-year-old tradition of folk songs.
The programme was directed and conducted by the well-known researcher of folk music Shubhendu Maiti who, along with Tapashi Roychowdhury, Arjun Khapa and Partha Chattopadhyay, presented the songs.
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