The American Institute of Indian Studies, with support from the Ford Foundation, enabled three groups from Indian Diaspora communities to tour seven cities in the country, doing over 20 concerts as part of the Remembered Rhythms festival. Each performance was accompanied by a talk on the history and evolution of the people and their art form. The most recent stop was about the D’Bhuyaa Saaj, a group of musicians from Trinidad and Tobago, who are part of the Indian community in the West Indian island nation. Their ancestors, originally from Bihar, were taken to the islands by the British to work in the sugarcane fields, while they have kept alive the folk music from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Ajeet Praimsingh, the leader of the group, recounted: “we don’t speak Bhojpuri any more, so all that we sing is by the ear. But we love this form of music and we perform quite often.” The wildly successful festival will continue through the end of February. Previous topics included: the Rivers of Babylon, a group of Jewish people of Indian descent, and Sidi Goma, members of the African-Indian community in Gujarat.