Kirtan with Kalidasa & Friends
featuring Kaveri Dasi
Friday July 11 at 7:00 pm
$20 suggested donation. All are welcome!
Join world musician Kālidāsa for an evening of ecstatic, meditative call-and-response singing steeped in raga and roots music. Kālidāsa Kirtans offer an inspiring blend of voice, harmonium, bamboo flutes, and hand drums.
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Kālidāsa will be joined by Kaveri Dasi, a wonderful musician who will sing and play the mridangam, a two-headed barrel-shaped drum from India.
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What is Kirtan?
Kirtan is transcendental spiritual music and a meditation practice also described as Bhakti Yoga or Nada Yoga. Its origins come from Eastern Indian and Budhist culture. In its tradition, Kirtan is recited as a call and response chanting from the vocal leader to the audience, who then recites or echos back the same lyrics. By chanting in this way, the sounds and voices raise a very high conscious vibration that reverberates within and outside of you, opening up energy channels. This practice calms and quiets the mind. You don't need to have any previous experience to attend a Kirtan. All spiritual faiths are welcome.
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About the Wallah:
Kālidāsa Joseph Getter is a creative world musician and teacher, with decades of experience in kirtan, Javanese gamelan of Indonesia, Carnatic classical music of southern India, experimental music, drumming, Jazz, and music for yoga, theater, dance, sound healing, and the circus arts. Recently he co-created with Marcella Trowbridge a recording of music and poetry to ease the end of life, “RELEASE. FORGIVE. A Soundscape for Dying” (available on Soundcloud and YouTube). He has lived in India for two years, and studied religion at Oberlin College and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University.
Check him out on Facebook @KalidasaKirtan
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Accessibility: Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent-free space located on the second floor, accessible by stairs.
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Questions? Contact
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