Welcome to Music Basti! Here’s where you’ll find information about what we do, and you can stay up to date with our events, our work and our people. Thanks for stopping by.

Music Basti is a part of the activities of Integrated Development Education Association (IDEA), an all India agency based in Delhi. It aims at generating access to information and social awareness concerning the right to expression and child rights, mainly through music.

CURRENT/UPCOMING PROGRAMS & NEWS

* APPLY NOW ! Call for Volunteer Applications

Click Here to know more; Deadline for applications is 6th August, 2010

* Read our Progress Report : April-June 2010

Excerpt: In addition to this, programs have acquired a structured approach towards ensuring inclusivity of and enjoyment by children, as well as more intensive programs to promote skills based musical learning through instruments or song- writing and recording projects. Support from the musical community has increased through inclusion of a larger number of musical professionals, performers and artistes being involved in planning and implementing programs; donation of instruments; and key collaborations with organizations like Hard Rock Cafe, Radio Mirchi and the Gibson Foundation, among others….Special programs with organizations including Plan India, Bridge Music Academy, bands and artists including Swarathma, Shabnam Virmani and Rohan Solomon.

* Read our Blog: Music Basti: Voices for universality, not uniformity

Get to know the Music Basti Team on our Blog: Read about the motivations, interests, experiences and thoughts of the Music Basti team and its associates.

* Recent projects: The Recording Project

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Over the past couple of weeks, we were working with an award winning record producer from the UK and two academics from the Centre for Media and Cultural Research at Birmingham City University on a project to explore the ways in which our music projects can find a wider audience online, and be used as a tool for fundraising. Through collaboration with a range of local professional musicians, we are recording a children’s album featuring the singing and enjoyment of the children we work with and our volunteer musicians. The album will be released online as part of the research and will be available for free – or with a donation.

Photo by: Sikandar M Kumar