The Baul Fakir Utsav 2018, Jadavpur Kolkata,India

A Baul song in progress at the Baul Fakir Utsav 2018, Jadavpur In continuation with my earlier post on Baul Music Festival 2018 , here is another powerful and spiritual video from the Baul music festival held in Shaktigarh, Jadavpur, Kolkata in January 2018. The Baul are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal which includes Indian State of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh. Bauls constitute both a syncretic religious sect and a musical tradition. Bauls are a very heterogeneous group, with many sects, but their membership mainly consists of Vaishnava Hindus and Sufi Muslims. (From Wikipedia )