About Bona Alit

Cultural Heritage

Bona Alit is not just a traditional Balinese music group, it’s a cultural heritage, and one upholding the utmost in artistic and historic values.

Unique Art Space

Bona Alit is also a place - Sanggar Bona Alit - Bona Alit Art Space or Art Community... a place where some of the most original Balinese music and dances are created and nurtured.

With a deep ancestral art heritage, Bona Alit is renowned as the centre of Balinese dance and musical creation, combining together the beauty, sacred philosophy, the spirit and the magic - which together run deep in the Balinese artistic tradition.

Essence of Balinese Music from a World Perspective

Bona Alit is most well known for its music, in particular its preservation of the essence of Balinese traditional music, interpreted via a wide variety of contemporary world music, thus creating music with a traditional atmosphere that will take us to the life and wisdom of the real Bali: the tranquility of soul. Enjoying the music and dances from Bona Alit is akin to transcending dimensions. Like meditating with a full awareness. An unforgettable, artistic and aesthetic triumph of the soul.

Bona Alit is Agung Alit

"The maestro of Balinese music" is the term often used to describe I Gusti Ngurah Adi Putra or Agung Alit as he's more commonly known. Born in 1962 in the village of Bona, Agung Alit is the founder and single driving force behind the rise of Bona Alit.

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- Bona Alit

- Sanggar Bona Alit (Bona Alit Art Space)

- Agung Alit

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