The charani folk-songs, duha, chhand etc are a part of folk-music. The saints and devotees of Gujarat have woven the teachings of the Vedas and the Upanishadas in their devotional songs. They have helped dissolving the differences of caste, creed and colour. The bhajans of Abhram Bhagat have reached London. The voice of Ismail Valera had lured lot many people.

Folk-music includes variety of occasions and songs befitting the same. Songs specially meant for recital at morning, evening, marriage, child-birth, festival songs, war-time and death-time songs, story-telling and season songs and number of other occasions are celebrated or marked with specific type of folk-songs and folk-music. Many of such songs were compiled by Meghani and Raichura.