The Bhopalites witnessed a tuneful evening of Bundeli Folk songs on Wednesday. The Bundeli Folk musical evening ‘Bundeli lok Sangeet’ was held at Dushyant Kumar Memorial Museum of Manuscript.
The event was organised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Bhopal chapter. The event was organised under the Horizon series of cultural programmes. Bundeli lok Sangeet was much enjoyed by the BBhopalites. The music lovers of the city were enthralled to witness such a refined performance before them.
It is to be noted that Santosh Tantawaya was born in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh in the year 1956. He was an officer in the Revenue department and retired in year 2016. But since his childhood, Santosh was into folk music which gave him much recognition too.
His initial training was imparted by his father laxman Prasad Tantawaya. He also used to perform along with his father.
He later, received training from Mathura Prasad Dhirolia and Sharad Gangadhar Sapre. In his student life, he used to perform Bundeli folk songs at school colleges and forums.
In the year 1980, the Bundeli folk singing was selected in the B-grade category from Chhattarpur Center of Akashwani in the audition, in the year 1986 B-High and success in the A-grade Bundeli folk singing audition in the year 2013.
The audience enjoyed the show with full ecstasy when it became the interactive event between the performer and the listeners. Even the youngsters listened to his performance with rapt attention. The evening turned out to be most wonderful experience for the audience as the artists performed beautiful folk compositions.