Sirohi, Rajasthan

Folk Songs and Folk dances are the traditional way of amusement and entertainment of the people of Siorhi. With development of the civilization and education, in modern & sophisticated society today the folk songs and dances had now being considered as the tradition of the uncultured society. In the so called cultured society the songs and dances are performed only on the special occassions like birth of a child, marriage ceremony and these are also enfluenced by the films and other media. They are far away from the traditional songs which are full of melody and classical, in the sense that they are based on some raagas. Tribal and people residing in rural area are found of singing folk songs and performing the folk dances on the occassion of festivals, fair, marriages and religious occassions etc.

These folk songs and dances have variety of feeling included in them. They show affections of brother for the sister, Lover for his beloved etc. Sometimes these folk songs also express the feeling of sorrow and pains of these people. These folk songs and dances are means of expressing their feelings.

Some of the examples of the marriage folk songs are Mayra Song, Song sung for the bride/ bridegroom called songs of Banada and song of Toran.

In which Mayra song is sung when the brother arrives to his sisters house for attending his nephews marriage and it express the feelings of the sister for her brother.