Echoes of Earth is all set to roll out tomorrow

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: India’s greenest music festival makes a grand return to its home turf, Bengaluru. Bringing back stories, revelry, and a festive fervour like no other, Echoes of Earth is back with its fifth edition on December 3-4 this year.

The festival is set to take place at Embassy Riding School nestled amongst a sprawling green space of 180 acres. With inventive stages created from upcycled material to curating eclectic music genres that are known to bring together a new-age listening audience, the festival is set to bring back the essence of conscious lifestyle events that promotes mindfulness, sustainability, and an alternate, circular lifestyle.

“Circle of Life is a concept that has been under work for years now. It mainly focuses on living life in moderation. We aim to rethink the use of our natural resources and be mindful of the life that exists around us. This year’s festival hopes to elevate the experience we have created in the past through conversations, education, circular design that also encourages the recycling of our past year assets and finally to move towards becoming a carbon negative festival,” says festival director Roshan Netalkar who has been a pioneer in sustainable lifestyle events.

Sustainability has been a tool that has been instrumental in shaping the vision for the festival. Over the last six years, the festival has significantly decreased its carbon footprint through initiatives such as solar-powered stages, no plastic zones, sapling drives, and responsible waste disposal and reduction systems.

The onus this year moves towards regeneration, conservation, circular economy, and how they can be used to build lifestyle events for the future. In its fifth edition, Echoes of Earth is bringing together stories of wildlife and nature conservation from the unexplored crevices of India’s diverse ecosystems through its theme ‘Circle of life'.

It brings together over 40 local and international talents that are shaping the future of unique global sounds. Converging on these stages are rising international acts such as The Yussef Dayes Experience, Dauwd, and Henry Saiz and Band presents Moonlight Wolves to riveting local acts leading the Indian music community such as Anyasa, Hanumankind, Easy Wanderlings, T.ill Apes, and more.

Where: Embassy Riding School, next to Stone Hill International School

When: December 3-4, 1 pm onwards

Tickets: Bookmyshow.com