Artisans in Rajshahi are becoming increasingly busy ... One of the fairs will be held in Dhaka at the Sonargaon Folk Art Museum. We’ll have stalls at both fairs. My father and uncle will go there.

among other veteran musicians of Bangladesh. In recognition of her contributions to folk music, she was honored with the Ekushey Padak in 2017. She also received numerous other awards throughout her ...

A man views an antique brass utensil during an exhibition featuring folk art and folk music in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Oct. 17, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua) A woman shows clay horse showpieces during an ...

DHAKA: Bangladesh's legendary folk singer Fakir Alamgir has died due ... Born on February 21, 1950 in Faridpur, Alamgir began his music career in 1966. The singer was a key member of cultural ...

Bengal, as imagined in TTA, is both a physical location and a space of the mind, geographically covering Bangladesh ... There are archives of folk and classical music all over the country ...

About 3,000 Catholics, from children to the elderly, thronged to Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Bonpara in Bangladesh ... Christian folk music tradition that was once widely popular among Bengali ...

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 ...

a platform for folk singers in Bangladesh, demanded an unconditional release of Sarkar. “He only said [the] Quran did not prohibit the practice of music,” Das told Al Jazeera, adding that the ...

Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya, a prominent exponent of folk music of Bengal and Bangladesh died in a road accident in Hooghly district on Tuesday morning when a tyre of the car in which he was ...

AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was a professor of English at Rajshahi ... that the music school was in Bagmara, a former bastion of outlawed Islamist group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Bangladesh is known as a land of music. The folk music of Bangladesh, in particular, is deeply connected with the psyche of the ...

Bangladesh is known as a land of music. The folk music of Bangladesh, in particular, is deeply connected with the psyche of the country and resonates through the villages of Bengal. “At the back ...