Onappattu a Folk Song in Kerala

 

 




 
 
 
 
Onappattu

 

Onappattu the folk song of Kerala

Onappattu is a folk song in kerala that describes the festivities of Onam the famous harvest festival of Kerala. This particular folk song or nadanpattu ("nadanpattu" is the malayalam equivalent for the word "folk song") of Kerala tell tales of the land that have never been recorded. Kerala has as many variations of folk songs as there are variations in the land, climate, people and their occupations and the song is even different in different places or districts. Most of these melodious renderings are over 600 years old and have undergone much linguistic change in the course of time..