Folklore: Kali Dasgupta songs online

Subject: Folklore: Kali Dasgupta songs online
From: GUEST,Mark Gregory
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 07:16 PM

Late in the year 2000 in Calcutta (now Kolcata), I made enquiries
about Indian workers songs and trade union songs. My contacts directed
me to folk song collector and singer Kali Dasgupta. When I returned to
Australia in 2001 I started building a website to help make Kali's
work better known ...


http://kalidasgupta.com/

Seven years later (and 2 years after Kali died) the site has the
contents of five CDs that have been made of Kali and others singing
about 90 of the thousands of songs that Kali collected in Eastern
India

cheers

Mark

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Subject: RE: Folklore: Kali Dasgupta songs online
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 02:25 AM

Mark,
Pleased to hear that Kali is getting the recognition he deserves.
I knew him when he lived in London back in the sixties and was lucky enough to hear him sing on several occasions, mainly at the Singers Club.
More recently, I have met one of his pupils, Stan Scott, who was a friend of my late friend and neighbour, Tom Munnelly.
Stan wrote an interesting (short) article on Indian music, entitled 'Brown Ale and Black Tea', which mentions his work with Kali. We published it in a festschrift called' Dear Far-Voiced Veteran - Essays in Honour of Tom Munnelly'.
I will search out your web-site with interest.
Good luck,
Jim Carroll