Bhatiyali

Sourav Mandal

Call: 9830710713

He is one of the most prolific young folk singers of India today. Saurav specializes in folk songs originating in Bengal’s Sunderbans delta region and has imbibed the art of rustic rendition since his childhood — in the company of fishermen, travelling boatmen, myriad folk singers, and the wandering Bauls and Fakirs. Born in the remote village of Hingalganj in the Sunderbans, near the Bangladesh border, Saurav came to Kolkata to pursue higher education, only to realize that his call was to preserve and spread folk music at its authentic best. Since then, he is working on vocal archiving, research on rare folk music genres, and conserving moribund village hymns (pallygeeti) and transcendental verses. Saurav has performed across India, Europe and UK and also played at Coke Studio and Folk Nations. His solo album ‘Nouka Kholo’ is a very popular one.