Featured here is a live performance by Blues Conscience in the Freedom Jam an annual musical event in Pondicherry (Puducherry). The Blues Conscience a Chennai based blues band was started in 2008 by Anek Ahuja, Aum Janakiram and Neil Smith. Their main purpose is to promote the blues in today’s rock and metal influenced live music culture. Blues originally is a musical genre that originated in African-American communities at the end of the 19th century.