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he folk genre in music has given birth to many artists that have gone on to achieve great success. Perhaps the roots can be traced back to Kutumba’s rise to prominence in the early 2000s and their subsequent fame. They brought Nepali ethnic instruments to fore in various festivals around the world and were supported as the flag bearers of such as well. How well the band did then still has a ripple effect today, especially how people perceive Nepali folk bands now. But folk music has always existed here in Nepal in various capacities.
It has the tendency to make itself heard in the jangling of instruments in music shops, the sarangi players, who serenade passers by in Thamel and even in the cultural dances one would encounter as part of their ‘travel package’ in Chitwan. They named it folk; the music for the people, which derives its essence from the simplest of the simple. It is this same folk music that has made its rise to the top in 2016? How best would one describe Night band’s music? It is effervescent and alluring, it is captivating and yet stripped down. In folk music, the emphasis doesn’t lie in the talent of the musician (not saying that there is not an abundance of it) but in the music itself.
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