India is a land of vast and varied cultures. In this country flows the confluence of myriad beliefs, tastes and traditions. India is a country that yields and gives place to each and every. And probably this is the reason why the tradition of music or to be more precise according to our discussion, the folk tradition has undergone a setback. So what is folk music? Folk music is any popular music culture followed by the mass of any particular place or by some race. Generally, folk is not a scripted form of music but that which has been travelling orally from generation to generation. Being a huge country, invaded on several occasions, India has become a bed of diverse folk music traditions. In the east, particularly in Bengal, we have the baul form of music. In west we have Rajasthani folk, which to a great extent has the influence of Sufism for its geographic location. Towards the north, predominately in the Indian Himalayas, a very famous form of folk music is Ga...