Music festivals create more listeners and provide access to new artistes with different repertoire, says Indian classical musician and Thumri singer Shubha Mudgal, adding she does not subscribe the usual notions of purity in arts.

The 2000 Padma Shri awardee recently performed to a full house at Sahitya Kala Parishad's Thumri festival. Organised at the Kamani Auditorium, the three-day festival had Mudgal present the musical forms of 'Bol Banao Thumri' as well as 'Dadra'.