13 basic skill-building workshops have been organised between September to November 2022. 908 participants got the opportunity to learn and enhance their performing skill from the distinguished Gurus and trainers of Jhumur.
These workshops aimed to improve the team performance of the participating group, qualitative improvement of the singers and the musicians and skill-building of the dancers and make them more synchronized.
A workshop was conducted with the noted poets of Purulia, Bankura region to develop new Jhumur lyrics. The traditional Jhumur lyrics were not able to relate to contemporary youth’s life, there is a dearth of new compositions and thus a workshop was held with 13 Jhumur lyricist at Charida, Purulia. The poets wrote 21 new poems.
Another workshop was conducted on developing the compositions. Experts on folk music Abhijit Bose, Samir Kanti Majumder, Tarak Kar, Shravan Kumar Chandra, Subhankar Ghosh, Alok Sundar Das, Ashim Sarkar helped in music composition of the new poems written by the lyricists. 16 artists from Purulia, Bankura participated in the workshop. Artists composed 9 new songs. The music compositions were recorded and released on World Music Day, 2022.