Trivandrum Ektara Festival

EkatharaKalari in collaboration with Alliance Française de Trivandrum will organize Trivandrum Ektara Festival on 21 December, 10am-10pm. A day-long festival of Baul music with performance, interactions, documentary screening on Baul and sat sang.

The Baul songs are creations of Musical Expression combined with Spirituality and Yoga. It has been practiced and performed through generations since thousands of years, and continues even today. This living tradition of Musical Mystic Practice is evolving everyday through the contributions of contemporary BaulSadhakas(Baulpractioners). Baul is mainly an oral tradition, intrinsically connected to the practice of Yogis, Sufis and Mystics. The beauty of this tradition is that it washed away the boundaries of classification in music – every singer and musician adores these songs of great masters, being rendered on any occasion.

Baul basically searches her origin in the one-stringed instrument Ektara, known as Gopiyantra in Bengal. Ektara is a symbol of Oneness, like the single ray of the Sun when it touches earth and this Union, giving birth to newness.

Baul is ever-evolving, ever moving ahead, and is a dynamic tradition.

The Baul Practitioners who will be performing  in the Trivandrum Ektara Festival:

Parvathy Baul ( with Ektara and Duggi), Shyam Sundar Das Baul (with AnandaLahari,Dupki,Sreekhol,Ektara and Duggi), Lakshman Das Baul( with Dotara and AnandaLahari), Madan Das Vyragya( with AnandaLahari and Kartal) and Shanti (Student of Parvathy Baul)- with Ektara and Duggi).