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About Ann Arbor Kirtan
Ann Arbor Kirtan with
Healing World Music at One Peace: Celebrating United Nations International
Day of Peace
Ann Arbor Kirtan is a not-for-profit group of volunteer musicians and singers,
coming from a variety yoga disciplines, who engage in chanting as a spiritual
practice. We facilitate free public kirtan events as a service to our local
and global communities. Our hope is to provide an ongoing opportunity to
invite people from all backgrounds to share in the experience of kirtan.
Most of all, Ann Arbor Kirtan is about you and the community
of participants who offer your wonderful chorus of heartfelt voices to
the experience. In essence, you are the "Ann Arbor Kirtan Choir"
and the kirtan just can't happen with out you. We encourage your continued
participation and support and hope you'll share
the experience of kirtan with others.
Kirtan has been practiced for hundreds of years
to create a healing space condusive to calming the mind, meditation, and
community spirit. Ann Arbor Kirtan members play
Indian and western instruments and melodies, including tabla, harmonium,
cello, guitar, dulcimer, tambura, flute, cymbals, an assortment of drums,
and also provide a lead vocalist who sings the call-line of the chant.
The chorus of participants sing the same line in response and the chant
goes on like this, usually gaining speed, until the lead vocalist brings
it to an end.
We welcome you to join us at the next Ann Arbor Kirtan on August 20, 2010.
Some venues where Ann Arbor Kirtan has played:
- Monthly kirtans at the Friends Meeting House in Ann Arbor
- The Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room
- The Yoga Center for Heathly Living
- Spirit of Healing Community Meditation
- The Yoga For Peace Festival
- One Peace: Celebrating United Nations International Day of Peace
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