The folk and
fusion festival Paddy Fields organised by Nesco events on October 7 and 8 was a
mixture of Indian folk with various singers performing on different kind of
music from various part of the country.
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| The folk and fusion festival Paddy Fields / PC Nilesh R |
On the first day
it experienced Sonam Kalra and the Sufi Gopel Project performing the sufi music
to to Susheela
Raman, a British-Indian musician with roots in Carnatic music. It was followed by Sunita Bhuyan on
the violin performing on Assam folk and at the end of the day all the energy
was lit up with Nooran sisters engaging the crowd into punjabi folk.
The second day was
started by veteran classical singer Shubha Mudgal peforming on Uttarakhad and
Uttar Pradesh folk with her few bollywood hits. Soon followed by Kalpana
Patowara, popularly known as Bhojpuri Queen, who being an Assamee, performed
Bhojpuri folk. Tipriti kharbangar from Shillong who for this event had
specially rehearsed for Khasi blues and performed it for the first time and at
the end was gorgeous Sona Mohapatra with her rockstar performance on Odia folk
songs and then folk songs from across the country.
The season 2 of Paddy Fields was organised by Nesco
events at Nesco with an exclusive line-up of India’s top
most women folk and fusion artists it creates a platform for the talented women
story tellers in our country to take center stage. This
exclusive festival has created a platform for talented artists across rural and
urban India.
As an added and
exciting feature they had planned to curate songs including Khasi Blues,
Bhojpuri, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Punjab. Meghalaya, Assam and Delhi and the
singers lived upto crowd’s expectation.
The event has
brought a massive revival of soul music and promises to take the genre of folk
music to a new level by giving regional musicians and artists a larger
platform. It also offers a heady mix of fusion giving the festival a modern-day
context.
The singers were
too overwhelmed to be performing in front of a huge crowd who kept cheering for
the singers.
Many of the
singers even appealed to the organisers to have them for the next year too to
perform at Paddy Fields 2018.
Shubha Mudgal
said, “It was a great experience to be performing on Uttarakhand and Uttar
Pradesh folk music. This is a great event with a super theme and performers”
Sona Mohapatra,
who performed on Odio folk said, “This is super. I want to be part of this even
next year. It is a different event to celebrate Indian folk music.”
Dibakar
Chatterjee, CEO of Nesco ltd after the event said, “We are thankful to all the
singer and the crowd to have been part of the event and to make it a great and
successful one. He event announced the Paddy Fields 2018 to be organised on
October 6 and 7, 2018.
Turnkey managing director Atul Churamani said, “This
time we wanted to get folk songs from various parts of the country and give
them a new twist. The folk music is based on stories, most of which are
narrated by women and so the thought about it came in and the idea seemed good.
The event showcased the music talent of our country.“
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