Baul is about going beyond music, dance and poetry, through all movement to achieve an inner peace. The mesmerising and soulful Baul Gaan was presented by renwoened Baul singer Parvathy Baul at Bharat Bhavan.
Marking the sixth day of Niramaya Festival on Friday, Parvathy Baul made the Bhopalites lost into a world of spirituality and calmness.
The entire Antarang auditorium was jam-packed to watch the scintillating performance of Parvathy Baul at Bharat Bhavan.
Parvathy Baul performed her songs like Kicchu Din Mone Mone, Ache Shyam and more leaving the audience spellbound.
It is to be noted that Parvathy Baul is a Baul folk singer, musician and storyteller from Bengal and one of the leading Baul musicians in India. Trained under Baul gurus, Sanatan Das Baul, Shashanko Goshai Baul in Bengal, she has been performing both in India and other countries since 1995.
She is married to Ravi Gopalan Nair, a noted Pava Kathakali glove puppet artist, and is based in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, since 1997, where she also runs, "Ektara Baul Sangeetha Kalari" a school for Baul music.
It is noteworthy here that Baul are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal which includes West Bengal and Bangladesh. Bauls constitute both a syncretic religious sect and a musical tradition. Bauls are a very heterogeneous group, with many sects, but their membership mainly consists of Vaishnava Hindus and Sufi Muslims.
They can often be identified by their distinctive clothes and musical instruments.
later, the evening was followed with the performance of classical singer Raja Kale.