Rajasthan will host a three-day music
festival which aims at bringing music and spirituality on one platform
at Pushkar from 14 November.
The festival ‘The Sacred’, which is the
brain child of chief minister Vasundhara Raje, will feature artists from
genres as diverse as sufi, Rajasthani folk, world
music, Hindustani classical among others and would showcase how art and
culture can transcend boundaries of religion and language.
“The idea was basically to try and bring
together everything that touched upon the sacred and also show that
spirituality crosses all religious boundaries. We wanted to look at both
Pushkar and Ajmer at the same time, where two completely different
religions are co-existing,” Sanjoy Roy, managing director, Teamworks
Arts, the festival organiser, said.
“The suggestion came from Raje. Apart from the camel fair, there was nothing specific happening there. When I went and saw the Pushkar kund, I realised it is such a stunning backdrop,” he said.
“We wanted to create a space for people
to come to listen morning and evening music and re-discover the pleasure
of spirituality as your own space,” he added.
The festival line-up features artists
like Kailash Kher, Shubha Mudgal, Nathulal Solanki with 52 Nagaras,
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Yom & Wang Li, La Grande Chapelle,
Jaisalmer Boys among others. The festival will also showcase Buddhist
meditation by Khen Rinpoche Jangchup Choeden, guided Jain meditation by
Tikam Chand Jain, Vayu Yoga by Capucine Redon and Pushkar Heritage tours.
“In today’s day and time, when we are
seeing so much intolerance, it’s imperative that all of us in the
cultural space come together to showcase music that crosses all
boundaries of religion, language, of different kinds of differences that
have cropped up,” he said.
The three days of the festival, which will take place at different venues, including the Raj Bohra Ghat, sand dunes and Ajmer Fort, will add up to the prevailing spiritual ambience of Pushkar.
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