Musical instrument

There was a time when Dhadhis, the traditional Sikh musicians and singers, used to educate and inspire people by singing the sagas of Gurus” heroic deeds and valour. It was done in the service of their community. With the passage of time, not many individuals have been volunteering to become Dhadhis

The 13th generation exponent of the Sikh maryada, Bhai Baldeep Singh, feels that people who don’t preserve the 'guru’s maryada' should be jailed. Taking a strong note of such people he said, "Do we expect the Pope of Vatican city to come and become the custodian of our traditions?

Shivdev Singh Sidhu and other NRIs has formed Punjab Heritage Foundation USA fro promoting traditional folk music and dance of Punjab. They urged Chandumajra, who was also syndicate member of Punjabi University, University should come forward to support traditional music and dance.

While accepting the fact that the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee has not been able to properly propagate the recital of Gurbani in ragas, as prescribed in Guru Granth Sahib, on string instruments in the Golden Temple, SGPC president Avtar Singh made a strong appeal to raagis to help sustain the purity of this exclusive form [...]

A group of 20 individuals have taken upon themselves the task of reviving lost glory of traditional instruments which reverberated the environment before suffering the onslaught of modernization in Punjab.