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Kolkata hosts show on Bengali folk songs

| | Jun 26, 2014, at 04:13 am
Kolkata, June 25 (IBNS): The West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts of Rabindra Bharati University presented in association with Lalan Academy Mahajani Gaan a programme of old folk songs of greater Bengal at the Jorasanko Thakurbari here recently.

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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