16 October 2015, 05:30 am
Achin Pakhi – Songs of Lalon Fakir
Programme Type
Cultural
By Baul Shafi Mondol from Bangladesh, who will be sing rare as well as popular folk songs of undivided Bengal especially of the renowned mystic singer of the Indian Subcontinent, Lalon Fakir. Lalon represents and exemplifies the true revolutionary and secular nature of his community known as "Baul", a community of wandering singers whose wisdom and wit do not come from academic training, but from an active contact with a life intensely lived
 
Accompanied by Jagannath Roy on percussion and Rohit Prasanna on flute 
 
Baul Shafi Mondal hails from Kushtia in Bangaldesh, the birth place of this famous mystic poet and singer, Lalon Fakir. He has been performing at national and international platforms since the past thirty years