Purabiya Taan: Bhojpuri Music in Ravindra Kalakshetra Bangaluru

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Channel: MUSIC BOX Kalpana Pattowary · 2015 · Music

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Bhojpuri singer Kalpana Patowary has found a new audience she loves: migrant workers for whom home remains a dream. In the city last week, Patowary performed concerts for audiences that live on two extreme ends of the economic scale. While two gigs were at the plush Windmills Craftworks to a “sophisticated audience“, it was her concert at the Ravindra Kalakshetra, which had a sizeable number of construction workers from Bihar and UP, that she fondly recalls. “I loved every gig I did in Bengaluru but performing for the migrant workers was special. More so because we launched the Anthology of Birha album, which is a collection of folk songs from north India themed around birha (separation). The subject resonates with these workers who leave their families to eke out a living in cities and so having them in the audience made it that much more special,“ she says.

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