Gaya, Jan. 25: Kailashpati Mishra’s चोर बैठा है तोरे नगरिया मे,दरवाजा मत खोल “Chor baitha hai tori nagariya mein, darwaaza mat khol” left the audience spellbound at Kabir Festival in Bodhgaya today.
Another folk song,जब से मिल गैलए गुरूजी हमार, बहार आयल जिंदगी में “jab se mil gailey guru ji hamaar, bahaar aaiyl jindagi mein”, by the Gaya-based singer marked the Sufi festival’s inauguration at Maya Sarovar.
Around 100 Nirgun singers — those who talk
about formless God — from Gaya, Saharsa, Madhepura, Khagaria,
Muzaffarpur besides Nadia in Bengal and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan are
participating in the festival.
Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society
(supported by the World Bank) under project Jeevika of the state
government has undertaken an initiative in developing culture as
livelihood.
Grassroots rural enterprises have been
formed with 1,200 folk artistes in nine districts as the project aims at
creating sustainable livelihood opportunities for the people with
creativityThe project manager of NGO Banglanatak dot com, which
organised Kabir Festival, Siddhanjan Ray Chaudhuri, said such livelihood
programmes involving folk artistes have been going on in several states
for the past eight years.
Besides Kailashpati and Bachaspati Mishra
and their group of Gaya, Shyam Sunder Yadav-Triveni Yadav-Surinder Yadav
of Saharsa, Navin Kumar Surdas-Shankar Kumar and group of Madhepura and
Baba Balgiri Maharaj-Sant Sridharma Ram and group of Jaisalmer
performed today. Vikash Chanchal-Govind Vyas of Gaya, Yadunandan
Ram-Siyaram Goswami of Khagaria, Ramakant Vyas-Misrilal Vyas of
Muzaffarpur besides Arjun Khayapa-Arman Fakir and group of Nadia in
Bengal will perform at the festival tomorrow.
Gaya district project manager of Jeevika,
Arunava, said the project had seen quite a progress with artistes from
rural Bihar performing across India.
source :Telegraph
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