Western classical music training is often thought of as the gold standard of music education. It is easy to forget that the classical world and its training methods are but a tiny fraction of the average musician's lived experience around the globe. As a documentary maker, cellist and music teacher, I have been lucky enough to travel multiple times to Rajasthan in northern India, a state renowned for its very rich folk music tradition. I travelled to many remote desert villages associated with the musical folk tradition and I eventually ended up playing with some of those musicians professionally, as a wedding musician in India. Over time I have become good friends with musicians from one of those tribes, the great Langha family.
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