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Music festivals in India, and globally, feature too few female musicians: Can the gender gap be fixed?
FirstpostThere’s no denying that female musicians are underrepresented across the board around the globe — at festivals, on the charts, on streaming platforms and even in the studio as producers Earlier this month, at an event called Mind The Gap, I moderated a panel discussion on the underrepresentation of women at Indian music festivals where the number of female or female-fronted acts is often a single-digit figure. Among the things we discussed at Mind The Gap was whether the scarcity of female musicians at Indian festivals was simply a reflection of the gender disparity in the country’s independent scene. At over 25 percent, last year’s instalment of Magnetic Fields had the highest ratio of female performers for any Indian music festival, something they “consciously aimed for”, said founder Sarah Chawla and Ruhi Batra, the co-founder of City Press, the company’s PR wing, in an email interview they answered together. Ask your average indie scenester to name a female electronic music artist and they’re likely to mention either or both Mumbai-based Sandunes aka Sanaya Ardeshir or Delhi-residing Komorebi aka Tarana Marwah.
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