Kirtan with Shubalananda
Friday, February 10 at 8pm
Yoga in Middletown
438 Main St., Middletown, CT
438 Main St., Middletown, CT
Suggested donation $15 (but everyone is welcome)
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Shubal’s kirtan must be experienced. Reinforced by his mastery of the guitar and harmonium, his power and bhava create a mood which allows all to join in the ecstasy of singing God’s names. Shubalananda Saraswati (Larry Kopp) has been leading kirtan and singing bhajan for the past 25 years. He is a sadhu, living on the Dakshina (contributions) of the Northeast US kirtan community. Shubal has been a regular kirtan wallah at Kripalu Center in Lenox MA for the past 10 years, and is out six nights a week leading kirtan regularly at over 20 yoga centers across New England.
Kirtan is not a performance, but is a participatory call-and-response chanting and singing of the holy names. This session will feature Ashley Flagg on vocals and harmonium, and Middletown resident Joseph Getter on bamboo flute.
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This is great to know about; the event might attract more interest if the words that are unfamiliar to most people were defined. "Kirtan" itself, for example.
Namaste! Hope you can post an amended version.
"Kirtan is not a performance, but is a participatory call-and-response chanting and singing of the holy names." It's a common form of musical worship in South Asia including India. Our group's style fuses Blues music with Indian Raga-based music, and focuses on Hindu deities. In some ways it is a simple practice, in that anyone can do it - the words aren't difficult. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtan.
Kirtan is great! Please come and check it out. The evening may include 4- 7 chants that usually start out slow, building to high energy, then slowly coming back. Bathe in the prana (energy) when one ends. Shubal is the real deal. See you all there!
This is a list of some of the world's kiratn genre and their definitions. Apala - Originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. It is a percussion-based style that developed in the late 1930s, when it was used to wake worshippers after fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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