DESCRIPTION:
Folk Nations is an exciting three year programme supported by British Council aimed at bringing together musicians, music directors and practitioners from UK and South Asia regions for exchange, collaboration, creative and professional development and showcasing opportunities. We aim to create a stronger engagement with the UK through connecting musicians and practitioners to create a dialogue and provide the space to learn from each other's culture and musical traditions, foster collaborative working and hopefully inspire the creation of new projects. As part of this we explore traditional music forms and their place in contemporary culture, how younger audiences engage with heritage and adapt into new ways of presenting folk. The artist performed at the fest are Trwbadour (Wales), Soumik Datta (UK), Arif Khan (India), Ross Ainslie (Scotland), Patsy Reid (Soutland) and Sharat Srivastava(India).