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Illustration of festival lights and kites at night

In pictures: lights, kites and folk songs at Dhanpura Folk Nights

Three nights of desert music in a village square: eight scenes from the festival's opening, its new stage for young singers, and the long walk home.

For three nights, the village square in Dhanpura became a concert hall under the open sky. Musicians from families who have played the same instruments for generations shared the stage with teenagers singing in public for the first time.

The festival kept its small scale: a few thousand people a night, free entry for villagers, and no loudspeakers outside the square. Read more about this year's line-up.

Here are eight scenes from the festival.

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