Live Music in Winnipeg

Kirtan in Winnipeg is Beth Martens & The Kirtan Calling

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June 21st, 7:00 – 9:00 PM

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Live Music in Winnipeg – Kirtan is For if You Are…

A Yogi on a Meditation Mission

A Singer on a Sacred Journey

A Hippie Who Wants to Get Down With Mantra

A Holistic Practitioner Looking to Raise Energy

Do you want to be part of creating something that doesn’t need you to join?  And won’t kick you out…

The Meaning of Kirtan

In the words of Dave Stringer …

Kirtan is consciousness-transformative, directing the singers to vanish into the song as drops merge into the ocean. From a linguistic perspective, Sanskrit is the mother tongue of many modern languages, and a kind of periodic table of elemental sound -meaning.

The mantras are primarily recitations of the names given to the divine. But perhaps the true understanding of the mantras can be found in the sense of unity, well-being and timelessness that they elicit. The mantras quiet the mind, and the music frees the heart. Ecstasy is both the process and the product.

The primary musical feature of kirtan is the use of call and response, a figure that also deeply informs bluegrass, gospel and jazz. Kirtan is not a piece of dusty ethnomusicalogical taxidermy, it’s a living, breathing organisms spreading its genes out into the world.

The Bhaktis had no use for orthodoxy. They saw the expressions and form of the divine in every direction they looked. From this perspective, even music that cannot be characterized as traditional can still be expressive of the Bhaktis’ original intention.

Inquiring into the origin and nature of the universe, both Western science and Eastern philosophy arrive at the obstacle of the mind. How can the mind come to see beyond itself? Is it a matter of spiritual practice, or sadhana, or is it simply a problem of chemistry?

Everywhere you look, the mysteries deepen in unexpected new directions. Isn’t it amazing that you can now look at an MRI of someone’s brain, and see how chanting changes it? Singing, we move ourselves into a field out beyond questions and answers. Encountering bliss, the mind is still.”

Kirtan…sparks the joy in you and your voice through Sanskrit mantras and meditation – said to be the perfect cure to murky waters.

No experience is required to thoroughly enjoy oneself.”