Folk Nations- Residency in Northeast India
Folk Nations is an ongoing three-year project of the British Council that explores the cultures of India and the UK through their folk music traditions. This film chronicles the meeting of 6 folk musicians from England, Wales and Scotland with 6 traditional musicians from Assam, Mizoram, and Nagaland for a residency in Kohima Nagaland.
The artists included Jarlath Henderson (Scotland) considered to the this generation’s most prolific player of the uilleann pipes, a distinguished form of the Scottish bagpipes and Rob Harborn (England), a leading interpreter of traditional music who has practically revived the concertina. Amongst the Indians artists there was the mesmerizing Phu Ning Ding, a one-man army who not just sings in Karbi, Assamese, Bangla, English and Sanskrit but is a dedicated proponent of the Kharam dabung, a traditional Kabri tribe instrument and Mutsevelu ‘Mercy’ Tetseo, who is a part of the famous Naga music group, Tetseo Sisters.