There is a difference between a singer and a performer. Raghu Dixit definitely belongs to the latter category. Over the last decade, the singer has been on the move travelling to over 32 countries and performing over 2,000 concerts.

“The journey of folk music in the 10 years has been interesting,” Dixit notes as we catch up with him at the recently concluded Jaisalmer Desert Festival. “Television programmes like Coke Studio and MTV Unplugged brought the genre into the mainstream. Then, there has been an immediate surge in music festivals that feature music from the interiors of India,” he says.