Goa, May 8 -- A three-day festival is bringing the sounds and colours of Jharkhand and Odisha's folk arts and heritage to Goa this weekend. The three-day Folk Festival, from May 9 to 11, will be held at The International Centre Goa (ICG) and will mark the first visit to Goa of a 65-member delegation of artistes and performers from the two eastern states. Contact Base, in collaboration with the Axis Bank Foundation, is launching a project titled Roots to Prosperity, aimed at promoting culture-based livelihoods in Jharkhand and Odisha, and this festival is a part of that initiative.

Amitava Bhattacharya, founder of Contact Base and curator of the festival, said, "Goan audiences are special to us. In the past, we've presented folk forms fro...