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 Catholic diocese in Bangladesh has featured religious folk music during an annual spiritual gathering as part of an effort to save this popular tradition from extinction. Two Pala Gaan (folk musical ...

Shakespeare in Pala gaan: A bilingual production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Mukul Ahmed (inset) of London, was recently staged at Gandhi Bhavan, Jadavpur University. Organised by the school ...

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 ...

A group of artistes yesterday staged a protest through Pala Gaan, the traditional Bangla folk music, condemning ongoing attacks on Baul artistes and mazars across the country and demanding the ...