SpicedBeats Festival: Edition 01

Roots Music & Real Food

SpicedBeats Festival is a celebration of roots music, real food, local design and community. It serves as a platform to bring together creators and enthusiasts in homespun atmospheres for free-spirited cultural immersion with the intent to carry forward indigenous arts, music, skills and food cultures in the contemporary world.

SpicedBeats is a carefully curated interplay of:

Roots Music belonging to a region (Performances)
Traditional Food Cultures of the region (Food)
Real Food Practices, Farm-to-Table (Organic Food & Farming)
Indigenous Crafts (Workshop)
Local Design aesthetic of the region (Event Design)
Farmers’ Market
Community Building around music, art, and our shared cultural heritage

THE FIRST EDITION

The first edition of SpicedBeats was set in an organic farm and orchard in Jaipur, bringing together organic farmers and chefs to create a farm-to-table culinary experience, as well as the traditional craftsmen, musicians, food cultures of Rajasthan.

Woven around the occasion of Holi, the festival featured the traditional Chang Dance from Shekhawati region of Rajasthan - a celebratory dance form that is performed at Holi all around the region by locals. This was complemented by Holi Special menus by traditional chefs and a women-in-food community kitchen.