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Folk musicians in Rajasthan have lost livelihood due to tourism being stalled
Salim Merchant
But Merchant also tells us that he'd prefer that the spotlight is on folk artistes themselves instead of on mainstream artistes. "You know, I have been organising these private folk concerts where the musicians log in straight from their villages and perform. It's amazing to see how they shoot everything on iPhones and have become comfortable with emails and WeTransfers. They even wear masks to dress appropriately for the present pandemic, and the whole thing is teaching them how to adapt to the changing times," he says, pointing out how right now, necessity is the mother of invention for everyone.
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