A short snippet of Lakshman Das Baul and Netai Chandra Das performing at the 8th edition of the Kabir Festival, Mumbai, organized by Sahej Foundation in association with Chetan Memorial Trust.

Date: 20th January, 2018
Venue: Urban Haat, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai

Lakshman Das Baul is a disciple and the adopted son of renowned Baul Master and composer Shri Shudhir Goshai of famous Joydev-Tamaltala Ashram in Birbhum Dist. He is a young performer well known for his magnificent and energetic performances. He accompanies himself with Anandalahari and Dotara while he sings. He performed in many parts of India. After the demise of Shri Shudhir Goshai, he looks after the Joydev-Tamaltala Ashram. He lives with his wife and son and the Mother (the companion of Shri Shudhir Goshai).Since the last four years, he has been collaborating with Parvathy Baul.

Lakshman Das Baul is accompanied by Netai Chandra Das on the Sri Khol.

Musical instruments: Dotara and Ananda Lahari

Bauls are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal, which includes the country of Bangladesh and the Indian State of West Bengal. Bauls constitute both a syncretic religious sect and a musical tradition. Bauls are a very heterogeneous group, with many sects, but their membership mainly consists of Vaishnava Hindus and Sufi Muslims They can often be identified by their distinctive clothes and musical instruments. Not much is known of their origin. Lalon is regarded as the most important poet-practitioner of the Baul tradition. Baul music had a great influence on Rabindranath Tagore's poetry and on his music (Rabindra Sangeet).

Although Bauls comprise only a small fraction of the Bengali population, their influence on the culture of Bengal is considerable. In 2005, the Baul tradition was included in the list of "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

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