Goa, Feb. 10 -- The annual World Peace Music Festival, Sur Jahan was held at the Kala Academy over the weekend. It was a celebration of musical styles from Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands and India. The audience was exposed to sacred and medieval tunes from Europe, the magic of the ghumat and the magical voice of Habib Khan, the talented artist of Langa music from Rajasthan.

The Goa Ghumat Project lead by Carlos Gonsalves was a performance that featured

different indigenous instruments like the dhol, tasha, shamel, kasale, a western drum set, acoustic guitar and Goan traditional folk vocals. The fans in the audience kept applauding the interesting use of Goa's traditional percussion. He got the audience involved with a rhythm of claps to t...