Farhan Bogra

FARHAN BOGRA

Advisor ( Music )

Farhan Bogra is a well known public figure, social activist and Rubab virtuoso on the music circuit. By day he has represented Pushtoon Music and culture all over Pakistan and even across the border. With the desire to show Pushto music to the world, and break the norms existing about art and thought in the region, he is the light from which famous music band Khumariyaan established.

The mild mannered Farhan Bogra, who serves as a sort of spiritual center of Khumariyaan band approaches their music as a reformative cultural education. Around ten years ago, while he was grappling with the idea of Pashtun folk music becoming irrelevant, he gifted a Rubab to a friend. He then learnt that his friend’s father had disapproved of the present and had replaced it with a guitar. The incident struck a pro-verbal chord, and became the beginning of Farhan’s burning desire to revive local music by education people of its majesty while simultaneously working to evolve new sounds for it. Eventually, Khumariyaan become the logical conclusion of that effort. He is a visiting lecturer to different schools to educate the youth about Pushtoon Culture, also he is coordinating different folk music events/projects to provide support to folk musician of the region.