Preview: Episode #09 The Refrain | Reviving Folk Music with Abhinav Agrawal (Part II)

For The Love Of

Hi Welcome to Episode 09. I’m your host Noel Woodward and this is For The Love Of.

For the Love of The Refrain | Reviving Folk Music with Abhinav Agarwal (Part II)

Abhinav Agrawal, 27, an ethnomusicologist, musician and social entrepreneur is also the Founder Director of the Non-Profit Organisation, Anahad Foundation. Abhinav worked towards creating and reviving the diminishing folk music industry in India by creating self-reliant models that generate livelihoods, pride and dignity for stakeholders connected to this art form.

He is generating a demand and value for cultural folk music through building respect, recognition, identity and self-confidence of folk musicians, and in parallel creating a self-sustainable economic environment where an artist can distribute their productions directly to the public without an intermediary. In doing so, Abhinav is helping create a Folk Music industry that is a sustainable art form and an industry that is musician led.

This was one of my favourite episodes of Season 2 and was extremely fortunate to get to speak with Abhinav and hear his story and all the work that has gone into giving folk artists a voice through the Anahad Foundation.

This is Part 2 of the episode, we continue our conversation and discuss the Anahad Foundation, the Fellowship program, Equals Sessions and projects in the pipeline.

Stay tuned. The Episode airs this Saturday.