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Fireflies Festival of Music (in association with the Alliance Francaise,
Bangalore) Sat -14 April, 2007 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM

Venue: FIREFLIES INTER-CULTURAL CENTRE
DINNEPLALYA VILLAGE, KAGGALIPURA POST
BANGALORE 560082

What the press said about last year’s Festival:
“Electrifying. A whirl of joy.”
- The Hindu
an exciting mix of the traditional and the modern…”
-Deccan Herald

What is the Fireflies Festival of Music?
• Inspired by the World Sacred Music Festival, held annually at the mystical city of Fes, in Morocco.

• The setting is magical in this all night musical festival (6pm-6am) held annually at the Fireflies Inter-cultural Centre, off Kanakapura road, Bangalore.

• More than 2,000 people (from in and around Bangalore) attend the festival.

• The stage is set under a large Banyan Tree, with its roots hanging over the performers.

• The open-air amphitheatre is located amidst a splendid variety of lush native trees.

• It is a night where tradition and modernity meet, overlap, and even fuse.

• The festival covers a wide range of musical genres: Baul, Qawwali,Hindustani / Carnatic Fusion, Jazz, Folk, Sacred/Mystical Music

Music groups at this year’s Fireflies music festival

OIKYOTAAN
• Founded by Bonnie Chakraborty 2 years ago, the
group Oikyotaan seeks to permeate folk sounds from West Bengal and Bangladesh with a new, indigenous genre of music that reflects the traditional and yet breathes of the contemporary. It has incorporated from folk music like Bhatiyali, Jhumur, Bhavaiyya, Baul and Lok Geeti, and interpreted each with an additional ensemble of sounds and textures to offer a distinctively new spectrum of music. The band has performed in southern and eastern India and does a wide repertoire of songs from Baul, Murshidi, Fakiri and Dehototto.

Kartick Das Baul is a well-known Baul singer from Guskara, Shanti Niketan in West Bengal.
Currently Oikyotaan is working on a project of Dehototto and Fakiri songs to be presented at the Fireflies Festival of Music in Bangalore and the Sacred Music Festival in Berlin where Karthick will perform vocal and khamak with the group. The band includes Donan Murray on rhythm and lead guitar, Paul Jacob on the bass guitar, Kartick Das on vocal, ghungur and khamak, Saravanan on thavil and Bonnie on vocal.

TALA VADYA (Karnataka College of Percussion)

Vid.GEETHA NAVALE and group

DOLLU KUNITA ARTISTS

RHYTHM OF RAJASTHAN
EARTH BORN (Carnatic Jazz fusion)
KALBELIA: Nomad Dancers of Rajasthan
QAWALI (Shafiq Pervez and group from Nagpur) TREMOLOS (Accordion Group) HINDOL DEB (Hindustani Classical- Delhi)
JAZZ REVIVAL -Dr. Thomas Chandy with his group

International Artists
TARHANA
Tarhana is a tribe of musicians that is based in Amsterdam and founded by Sjahin During. They choose to blend the traditional Balkan and Oriental Flavours with Afro-Anatolian grooves. Spicing up Ottoman sound-scapes, digital Sufi grooves, Gypsy melodies, North African rhythms and sounds from these ancient cultures. The collaboration offers a rendition of ancient traditions, interlacing the polyrhythms of Eastern music, with its motifs, sounds and samples.
Anatolian melodies are reinterpreted and redesigned for the present generations of dancers and listeners.

BERNARD WACHEUX (violinist, conductor, former student of Yehudi Menuhin from Lille France: jazz, gypsy music, western classical music.) CLIO KARABELIA, (harpist, singer, from France, of Greek origin: western and Indian classical music, Greek and French songs) NEMANJA REBIC (Serbian Guitarist - fusion and folk)