                     
"Love all and
exclude none"
-Swami Rama
"Love is the most
ancient traveler
in the world"
-Swami Rama
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Kirtan
"Though it involves music, the ancient practice
of kirtan is not about musical ability or training,
it is about the heart..."
-Ragani
~ Kirtan, The Healing Music ~
Taste the kirtan experience, open your heart
to the Divine, and Turn the World to LoveTM ~
Kirtan with Ragani
As featured on FOX 6 and NBC affiliates, and producers of the award winning kirtan CD's, Best of Both Worlds and Ancient Spirit, Milwaukee's live Kirtan with Ragani (yoga chant) experience is the largest independent and ongoing kirtan scene in the nation. Kirtan with Ragani is held on first Fridays at 7:30 p.m. (with additional events scheduled throughout the Midwest-see calendar). All are welcome. $5. Please bring a cushion for floor seating (chairs also available). Please check calendar for venue location, details, and special events. Our venues are wheelchair accessible.
For a list of musicians who play in Milwaukee's Kirtan with Ragani events, scroll down this page. If you want to be on our mailing list for upcoming events, sign up here. To obtain the words (as transliteration) of the chants in Kirtan with Ragani, go to lyrics page, and if you were at a recent First Friday Kirtan with Ragani and wish to know what chants we did, visit our past events page. To hear samples of Ragani's kirtan songs, visit our CD's, and to watch Kirtan with Ragani videoclip, go to documentary movie. If you have other questions about our ongoing Kirtan with Ragani events, please contact us.
What is kirtan?
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To read more about the "The Kirtan Buzz" in a kirtan article written by Maggie Jacobus, click here.
Kirtan with Ragani Band Members:
Michael Kashou: fretless bass, Arabic tabla
Tim Maher: djembe, Native American drum
Holly Haebig: flute, lead backup vocals, hand percussion
Dave Blessum: guitar
Jahmes Tony Finlayson: bell tree, hand percussion
Fred Bliffert: Arabic tabla, percussion
Kaita Bliffert: tanpura, hand percussion
Roman Edirisinghe: hand percussion
Dale Buegel: keyboard, vocals
Backup singers: Rebecca Gray, Maggie Jacobus, Dale Buegel, David John Odland, Liz McIntyre,
Laura Wall, Trish Miller.
Sound engineers: Uriah, Nick Symes, Roman Edirisinghe, Caleb and Dale Buegel.
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THE TEXT AND KIRTAN DESCRIPTIONS ON THIS PAGE ARE STRICTLY COPYRIGHTED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO REPRODUCTION OF IMAGES OR TEXT IS ALLOWED WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION. IF YOU WISH TO USE EXCERPTS OF OUR KIRTAN STATEMENTS FOR YOUR WEBSITE OR OTHER PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS, YOU MUST OBTAIN WRITTEN PERMISSION.
Please don't steal from us. It's mean. And it's bad karma.
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Listen to sample
kirtan chant >>
(Jaya Ganesha)
Visit CD's page to hear
more kirtan chants >>
Visit Documentary Movie
page to see videoclip of
Kirtan with Ragani >>
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Curious about the
modern Indian
fashions Ragani wears for her kirtan?
See Ragani's high-profile fashion designer, Pawan Aswani, from Mumbai (Bombay) who designed and created Ragani's outfits >>
Read an
article on Pawan Aswani >>
More on Pavan >>
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Yummy tidbits on a few of the
Kirtan with Ragani musicians:
Michael Kashou played bass
with Garbage and recorded on
their platinum debut album.
Fred Bliffert, lumber baron
and band leader for Freddy & The Freeloaders, toured extensively in the mid 60's. See recent article
in Shepherd Express.
Holly Haebig played extensively
with
OneDrum, De La Buena,
DevaNation, and played as a
live guest artist for
Milwaukee's
Willie Porter.
Jahmes Tony Finlayson, former faculty and musician for the renowned Ko-Thi Dance Company
and founder of Milwaukee's OneDrum.
What is kirtan? Kirtan (yoga chant) is a participatory, cross-cultural music experience that incorporates the audience right into the performance. Recently featured in Time Magazine (Oct 2003), this call-and-response sacred experience is swiftly gaining popularity throughout the U.S. as it follows on the heels of the yoga movement. All ages and cultural backgrounds are welcome to the event-- there are no prerequisites for participation.
Though it involves music, the practice of kirtan is
not about musician ability or training, it is about the heart. These ancient chants contain powerful renewing and transformational energies that serve to reconnect us to the Ever-present and Eternal Being that lies within us all. All the mantras, melodies, and instruments are designed to lead us toward this meditative state. Although the language of kirtan is often in Sanskrit, the true language of kirtan is universal, because it is a language of the heart. As part of bhakti yoga (the devotional path), kirtan also utilizes nada yoga, the yogic science of sound. Through absorption in the sound, the eternal love that lies within each of our hearts can awaken. By chanting the different names and aspects of the divine, by calling out to the divine, we naturally reflect upon and call forth that divinity that exists within us all. Indeed, this call-response style chanting (kirtan) is a means of finding our way back to the core of our being, to our heart, and to our connection to each other. Truly, kirtan is for everyone-- there are no prerequisites, no religious beliefs or cultural backgrounds that are needed to experience and participate in kirtan.
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