Banchari Folk dance- Haryana

Folk dance by Banchari tribe of Haryana.

Banchari is the village in Haryana which has contributed for several generations to traditional folk music and has troupes who play the Nagada and dance to the beats of the drums swaying to the pungi.

Nagada or Kettledrum is the present version of the Dundubhi, a drum with a narrow bottom and a very wide mouth covered with animal hide and beaten with sticks and the pungi made of bottle gourd which channels air into two reed pipes.Traditionally used in marriages and religious functions and always in the Naubatkhana which is at the entrance of a palace or a fort and housed a number of musical instruments that were played to announce royal arrivals and festivities.

Source : Wikipedia

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