Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music
The Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music is an annual music festival held at the Fireflies Ashram off Kanakapura road, Bangalore. It was previously known as Bhoomi Jathre.

The festival
The stage, as always, is set under a banyan tree in an open-air amphitheatre, adjacent to a lake and away from the sodium trail of the city . Here, through music we celebrate the relationship of oneness between man and earth. This forms the bedrock of the festival ethos. It is also a celebration of the pluralism of India. The festival, from dusk to dawn, is a cultural experience where on offer is sounds of various genres. Taking care to juxtapose the indigenous with the international, the established with the unheard of, and jazz with tribal folk. It is one of those peaceful and soothing time that one really needs in their busy and hectic life.

The first year the theme was "Peace in Iraq", the second year the need to conserve water, the third year "Protect and grow more trees", and the fourth year "The inner journey–The outer journey".

The Fireflies festival covers a wide range of musical genres including Hindustani and carnatic vocal and instrumental, baul, fusion, western jazz, folk, alternative music, and many experimental and innovative genres.

The coming edition is being organized on 19 February 2011, starting from  7 PM to 7 AM. Passes need to be purchased. One should visit the official website fireflies.org.in to get contact details and further information.

Performers

For the 2011 festival, the ANNOUNCED line-up is as follows:

1. Thermal and a Quarter

2. Swarathma

3. Something Relevant

4. Moon Arra

5. Spinifex with Dr Mysore Manjunath

6. The Bicycle Days

7. Esperanto

8. Dollu Kunitha

9. Parvaaz

10. yodhakaa

11. Vedanth and Bindu

12. Faiyaz Khan

13. Sandesh lays UK

Artistes who participated in the festival of 20/21 February 2010 were:
Brahmastra – Fresh talent Fusion
Bhaktiyana- Directed by Meera Rajaram Pranesh Carnatic Classical
HFT- Jazz
Esperanto- Soul fusion
Shabnam Virmani- Kabir
Jalshaghar- Hindustani/jazz fusion
Hulivesha- Directed by Mohan Das Kothari Folk
Lounge Piranha- Alternative grunge
Prakash Sontakke group- Fusion
Bharat Sargam and group- Qawali
Vayali- Kerala folk
Low Rhyderz- Hip hop and rap/reggae
Kyle McCloud and Hayley Sabella- Banjo/Acoustic guitar/Fujara flute 
Bharat Mata Nach Kud Baja- Indian reggae
Fresh talent Precipus- Indie/fusion/ alternative rock

Artists who participated in the festival of 21/22 February 2009 were:

Bhumi Thayi Balaga (Folk) 
Anusuya Kulkarni (Indonesian Anklung) 
Prakash Sontakke & Group (Hawaiian Guitar Fusion) 
Solviteur Canendo (Acapella) 
Geetha Navale & the Esperanto Project (Soul Fusion) 
Vayali (Kerala Folk) 
Swaratma (Folk Rock) 
Shabnam Virmani & Group (Kabir/Sufi) 
Veeraghase (Kannada Folk) 
Shahid Parved of Nagpur (Qawali) 
Ranjankumar Barua & Group (Hindustani fusion) 
Rex Rossario (Jazz Quintet)

Performers that have participated in this festival include:

 The Choir of the Alliance Francaise de Bangalore - led by Siddhartha Kotwal
 Vid. B.K Ananthram & Amit A Nadig - Classical Carnatic flute duet
 Sanjay Deshpande - Hindustani Sitar
 The Taalavadya Percussion  Ensemble - Carnatic percussions
 Prakash Sontakke - Hindustani Hawaiian Guitar
 Dr. Thomas Chandy with his group - Jazz Revival
 Geetha Navale with her group – Esperanto
 Oikyotaan - Baul music fusion
 Bharat Sargam - Qawali
 Sumati - Hindustani Vocal
 The Raghu Dixit Project - Indo World Folk Rock
 Dollu Kunitha - traditional drumming
 Lounge Piranha - ambient-psychedelic music
 Rhythm of Rajasthan
 Tala Vadya (Karnataka College of Percussion) 
 Vid. Geetha Navale and group (Veena concert)
 Earth Born (Carnatic Jazz fusion)
 Kalbelia: Nomad Dancer of Rajasthan
 Dollu Kunita
 Qawali (Shafiq Pervez and group from Nagpur)
 Hindol Deb (Hindustani Classical)
 Bernard Wacheux (French Violinist – jazz / gypsy music)
 Clio Karabelia, (French Harpist - western and Indian classical music) 
 Nemanja Rebic (Serbian Guitarist - alternative)