Songs of mystic minstrels - Baul Songs

Baul songs or Baul Sangeet, popularly known as the songs of Mystic Minstrels, is a folk song characterized to Bengali Culture. Accompanying ektara, a simple one-stringed instrument, and a drum called dubki, Bauls singers wanders from village to village. Belonging to an unconventional devotional tradition, influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Bengali Vasinavism and Sufi Islam but which has a distinct identity different from these.