Oct 25 2026 to Oct 25 2026 6 p.m.

Price: 943 Book/Buy

Where

Sabha Blr

No.44/A, Kamaraj Road, Bharati Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru 560042

Event Description

There is a folk tale in Chishti circles about Amir Khusrau. He goes looking for a guru, finds Nizamuddin Auliya, and what comes out of him isn't a treatise but a song: aaj rang hai, today there is colour. Whether it happened quite like that, no one can say. But the song has been sung at the dargah in Delhi for about seven hundred years, and singers still turn to it when they want to name the moment when searching stops and something simply arrives.

This evening's three sets come from three corners of the country, and from three different ways of living with that same question.

Gurupriya Atreya and Vedanth Bharadwaj open with Kabir and the other Bhakti poets. Vedanth trained in Carnatic, Hindustani and Western classical music, and for years has sung the saint-poets, Bhakti and Sufi alike. Gurupriya sings with him. These verses were never meant to sit on a page. They were made to be sung among people, and that is how the two of them take them up.

Santhi Priya follows with songs of the Bauls. For generations the Bauls of Bengal have been wanderers, singing about the moner manush, the person of the heart, the divine who lives in the body rather than in a temple or a mosque. Santhi Priya learned this music from her guru, Parvathy Baul, and is spoken of as the first woman from Kerala to sing it. A tradition this rooted in Bengal now has a voice from the other end of the country, which says something about how these songs have always moved: on foot, from teacher to student.

After a short break, Mir Rajak and Group come to us from Pugal in Rajasthan. They are Mirasis, a hereditary community of musicians whose families have carried the Sufiyana kalam for centuries. In a single sitting they will go from Bulleh Shah and Khwaja Ghulam Farid to the bhajans of Kabir and Meera, without pausing to mark the change. For them there is no border to cross. The labels we bring, Sufi here and Bhakti there, are mostly our own.

What's included
A seat per ticket booked