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1985-RR-213 Logger's Sheet Logger: Moraine Smith Reel Number: #2 Stage: Mela Performance Date: 6/27/85 Presentor: Geetoprithu Roy Group Name: Bengali Folk Musicians - Gonga Region/Style: Bengal Performer(s) Instrument/Occupation 1) (?) Brotho Roy 1) tabla 2) Sony 2) Sitar 3) Mula Banerjee 3) Tanpura 4) Minutu Roy 4) Cymbals, percussion 5) Krishnakuli Roy 5) Dothora(string) 6) Geetoprithu Roy Contents: 1. Invocation to Saraswathi - Godcless of Learning 2. Elephants song to Queen Mother 3. Instrumental 4. Coming of Age - Dilemma of what to do with newly found youth (girl) - song 5. young boy - song about dothara (string instrument) 6. Song to water from Bangladesh - Boat is line from one world (life) to another after death. 7. Melancholy song of tea laborers reduced to slave 8. laborers by the British 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.