The Directorate of Swaraj Sansthan under the cultural programme of Desh Raag is organising a concert of Aalha-gayan on December 29 at Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum.
In this programme Uma Shankar Sen from Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh from 6:00 pm will give presentation of Aalha-gayan at open air stage of Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum.
Aalha songs are a category of North Indian folk music sung popular across the country including the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. These are songs typically inspired by the exploits of warriors and kings of this region. Reciting the same tale of valor and courage in the musical form, the folk artists will present Aalha lokgeet in this concert on Sunday in the premises of the Sangrahalaya. Visitors will be given free entry in the concert. This programme of cultural event of Desh Raag is based on musical series of folk songs, in which recital of folk songs is to held on every Sunday till January, 2014 at Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum. Further in the expansion of this, Raiso-gayan on January 5, 2014 and Basdeva - gayan on January 12, 2014 will be held at Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum.
Meanwhile, the IGRMS is organising ‘Sacred Grove festival’ at its premises from December 31 to January 01. Ritualistic activities and cultural performance will the main features of this two day programme. Sacred Groves are patches of natural or near-natural vegetation, dedicated by local communities to their ancestral spirits or deities. These Groves are protected by local communities usually through customary taboos and sanction with ancestral and ecological implications. The states particularly, rich in abundance of groves are Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.