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Maula Group recently performed “Call Of the Mystic” a concert celebrating the International Year of Rumi. The performance at this concert was liked and cheered a lot. Read the following article pasted below from DNA Newspaper Edition After Hrs

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Call of the Mystic’ promises a treat to Sufi music lovers in the city

While there is an electronica and alternative music scene that the city is fast getting exposed to, it also looks like there’s a growing penchant for mystical and traditional music as well. If you thought ‘Ruhaniyat’ was the only Sufi festival the city witnessed, here’s another one that plans to latch on to the city’s annual music festival list.

Organised by the Maula Group, ‘Call of the Mystic’ features Iranian and Indian Sufi musicians along with a few dancers at the Iskcon temple on June 10. “The festival is dedicated to the Sufi poet Rumi. We will be singing songs composed by poets such as Rumi and Bulleh Shah.

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Though this is the first concert in the city, I’ve performed with Abida Parveen and have been touring extensively throughout Europe trying to spread this music and the philosophy behind it,” says Kavita Seth, who has also lent her voice for a couple of Bollywood tracks in films such as ‘Gangster’.