How Mumbai’s Abhanga Repost is promoting Maharashtra folk music
Updated On: 20 March, 2023 01:20 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto
The city-based folk fusion band, who will be performing at the first Mahindra Roots Festival at Bandra Fort Amphitheatre this weekend, spoke to Mid-day Online about making it to the big stage, changing the conventional approach to Marathi music through concerts and celebrating abhangs
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Abhang Repost will be performing at the Bandra Fort Amphitheatre for the Mahindra Roots Festival today. Photo Courtesy: Mahindra Roots Festival
For a college band that started out of Mumbai’s Kishinchand Chellaram (KC) College as an idea in 2014 and was formed a year later, Abhanga Repost has certainly come a long way. Now that the city band have finally arrived on the bigger stages, they are making the most of it and taking Marathi music through abhangs (devotional poetry) to the masses. Being no stranger to the stage and loving every minute of it, they celebrate the works of Sant Tukaram and Sant Tukdoji in their first album ‘Vaari’ that was released only in 2022. They are also hugely inspired by Sant Kabir and Sant Rohidas, whose poetry they hope to include in their upcoming album that they will release later this year.
Deorukhkar explains, “It has been eight years for us, so you see how long it has taken us to reach a stage like this. We once got a chance to open for Raghu Dixit but there were five other bands. This time, we got the chance to solely perform. Now, people know us, and we have that credibility of being Abhanga Repost.” Apart from Deorukhkar on drums, the six-member band has Tushar Totre on harmonium, Ajay Vavhal on electric guitar, Pratish Mhaske on lead vocals, Viraj Acharya on tabla and percussion and Swapnil Tarphe on bass guitar.
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