Fireflies festival

The Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music is an annual music festival held at the Fireflies Ashram off Kanakapura road, Bangalore. It was previously known as Bhoomi Jathre.
Description
The stage is set under a large Banyan Tree in an open-air amphitheatre located next to a lake surrounded by trees. The festival normally starts in the evening and carries on until early morning the next day. Its one of those peaceful and soothing moments that one really looks forward to in their busy and hectic life. "except for the scorpion, which wandered into the Amphitheatre", however no casualties were reported.
The first year the theme was "Peace in Iraq", the second year the need to conserve water, the third year "Protect and grow more trees", and the fourth year "The inner journey-The outer journey".
The Fireflies festival covers a wide range of musical genres including Hindustani and Carnatic vocal and instrumental, Baul, Fusion, Western jazz and Folk.
Performers
Artists participating on 21/22 of Feb 2009 are:
BHUMI THAYI BALAGA (Folk) ANUSUYA KULKARNI (Indonesian Anklung) PRAKASH SONTAKKE & GROUP (Hawaiian Guitar Fusion) SOLVITEUR CANENDO (Acapella) GEETHA NAVALE & THE ESPERANTO PROJECT (Soul Fusion) VAYALI (Kerala Folk) SWARATMA (Folk Rock) SHABNAM VIRMANI & Group (Kabir/Sufi) VEERAGHASE (Kannada Folk) SHAHID PARVEZ of NAGPUR (Qawali) RANJANKUMAR BARUA & Group (Hindustani fusion ) REX ROSSARIO (Jazz Quintet)
Performers that have participated in this festival include:
* The Choir of the Alliance Francaise de Bangalore - led by Siddhartha Kotwal
* Vid. B.K Ananthram & Amit A Nadig - Classical Carnatic flute duet
* Sanjay Deshpande - Hindustani Sitar
* The Taalavadya Percussion Ensemble - Carnatic percussions
* Prakash Sontakke - Hindustani Hawaiian Guitar
* Dr. Thomas Chandy with his group - Jazz Revival
* Geetha Navale with her group - Esperanto
* Oikyotaan - Baul music fusion
* Bharat Sargam - Qawali
* Sumati - Hindustani Vocal
* The Raghu Dixit Project - Indo World Folk Rock
* Dollu Kunitha - traditional drumming
* Lounge Piranha - ambient-psychedelic music
* Oikyotaan (Baul music fusion)
* Rhythm of Rajasthan
* Tala Vadya (Karnataka College of Percussion)
* Vid. Geetha Navale and group (Veena concert)
* Earth Born (Carnatic Jazz fusion)
* Dr. Thomas Chandy with his group - Jazz Revival
* Kalbelia: Nomad Dancer of Rajasthan
* Dollu Kunita
* Qawali (Shafiq Pervez and group from Nagpur)
* Hindol Deb (Hindustani Classical)
* Bernard Wacheux (French Violinist - jazz / gypsy music)
* Clio Karabelia, (French Harpist - western and indian classical music)
* Nemanja Rebic (Serbian Guitarist - alternative)

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