- Fireflies festival
The Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music is an annual music festival held at the Fireflies Ashram off Kanakapura road,
Bangalore . It was previously known as Bhoomi Jathre.Description
The stage is set under a large
Banyan Tree in an open-airamphitheatre located next to a lake surrounded by trees. The festival normally starts in the evening and carries on until early morning the next day.The first year the theme was "Peace in Iraq", the second year the need to conserve water, the third year "Protect and grow more trees", and the fourth year "The inner journey–The outer journey".
The Fireflies festival covers a wide range of musical
genres including Hindustani and Carnatic vocal and instrumental,Baul , Fusion, Western jazz andFolk .Performers
"Performers that have participated in this festival include:"
* The Choir of the
Alliance Francaise de Bangalore - led by Siddhartha Kotwal
* Vid. B.K Ananthram & Amit A Nadig - Classical Carnatic flute duet
* Sanjay Deshpande - HindustaniSitar
* The Taalavadya Percussion Ensemble - Carnatic percussions
* [http://www.prakashsontakke.com/ Prakash Sontakke] - HindustaniHawaiian Guitar
* Dr. Thomas Chandy with his group - Jazz Revival
* Geetha Navale with her group – Esperanto
* [http://www.oikyotaan.com/ Oikyotaan] - Baul music fusion
* Bharat Sargam - Qawali
* Sumati - Hindustani Vocal
* [http://www.raghudixit.com/ The Raghu Dixit Project] - Indo World Folk Rock
*Dollu Kunitha - traditional drumming
* [http://www.loungepiranha.com/ Lounge Piranha] - ambient-psychedelic music
* Oikyotaan (Baul music fusion)
* Rhythm ofRajasthan
* Tala Vadya (Karnataka College of Percussion)
* Vid. Geetha Navale and group (Veena concert)
* Earth Born (CarnaticJazz fusion)
* Dr. Thomas Chandy with his group -Jazz Revival
* Kalbelia: Nomad Dancer ofRajasthan
* Dollu Kunita
* Qawali (Shafiq Pervez and group fromNagpur )
* Hindol Deb (Hindustani Classical)
* Bernard Wacheux (French Violinist – jazz / gypsy music)
* Clio Karabelia, (French Harpist - western and indian classical music)
* Nemanja Rebic (Serbian Guitarist - alternative)External links
* [http://aravind-krishnaswamy.blogspot.com/2006/04/fireflies-festival-of-sacred-music.html Review: Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music - 2006]
* [http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/31/stories/2006033100510200.htm The Hindu: Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music on April 8]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jace/sets/72057594103824468/ Photos by Kiran (Jace) : Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music on April 8]
* [http://aravind-krishnaswamy.blogspot.com/2007/04/fireflies-festival-of-music-2007.html Review: Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music - 2007]
* [http://www.fireflies.org.in/ Fireflies Ashram]
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