Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music

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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.

The setting is magical. The stage is set under a large Banyan Tree, with its roots hanging over the performers. The open-air amphi-theatre is located next to a beautiful lake amidst a splendid variety of lush native trees.

It is a night where tradition and modernity meet, overlap, and even fuse. The Fireflies festival is a night of conviviality, friendship and spiritual values. It is an evening of great music, much laughter and fun. People go away praising and re-affirming the gift of being alive.

The first year the theme was on 'Peace in Iraq', the second year on the need to conserve 'Water',third year on the importance to 'Protect and grow more trees' and 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 and folk.

The fourth annual event was held on April 8 and 9, 2006. Performers included:

  1. The Choir of the Alliance Francaise de Bangalore - led by Siddhartha Kotwal
  2. Vid. B.K Ananthram & Amit A Nadig - Classical Carnatic flute duet
  3. Sanjay Deshpande - Hindustani Sitar
  4. The Taalavadya Percussion Ensemble - Carnatic percussions
  5. Prakash Sontakke - Hindustani Hawaian Guitar
  6. Dr. Thomas Chandy with his group - Jazz Revival
  7. Geetha Navale with her group – Esperanto
  8. Oikyotaan - Baul music fusion
  9. Bharat Sargam - Qawali
  10. Sumati - Hindustani Vocal
  11. The Raghu Dixit Project - Indo World Folk Rock
  12. Dollu Kunitha - traditional drumming
  13. Lounge Piranhas - ambient-psychedelic music


Fireflies Festival of Music 2007 will be held on 14th April (6 pm) - 15th April (6 am)

For further details Contact: Anugraha John Programme Coordinator Fireflies Festival of Music Fireflies Ashram Dinnepalya, Kaggalipura Post. Bangalore 560 082. INDIA. Tel:+91-80-28432130 Email: pipaltree.fireflies@gmail.com or ajohn316@gmail.com URL: Fireflies


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