Jacob Baroi grew up watching his father and uncles performing popular Pala Gaan (folk music plays) at their village in southern Bangladesh. Pala Gaan uses recitation, music, acting and dance to tell ...

A genre called “Jibonmukhi Gaan” became popular in the early '90s in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, followed by a controversy over the word “Jibonmukhi” meaning life-oriented, because the other ...

After a soft Nazrul Islam song with ghazal overtones, Coke Studio Bangla Season 2 has dropped the super groovy folk fusion number — Deora — on YouTube. Deora has been sung by Pritom Hasan (who has ...

This was the message by Joler Gaan, a Bangladeshi folk band, after a violent mob attacked its singer Rahul Ananda's home in Dhaka's Dhanmondi Monday. While Rahul Ananda and his family members managed ...