Hear a 90 Second Clip - Click Here Dave Stringer – Live Kirtan at Black Dog Yoga & Release of New CD - ÒDivas & DevasÓ ÒStringer transported us to another time and place. His fiery, soulful voice gave the entire room a feeling of a down-home gospel jam and one could not help but sing along." LA Yoga Pages Dave Stringer, world renowned sacred Kirtan artist, will perform live in Sherman Oaks as part of his world tour. He is also celebrating the release of his new album, Divas & Devas. Initially trained as a visual artist and jazz musician, Dave first started chanting mantras when a film project brought him to the ashram of Swami Muktananda in India. He remained in India, studying Kirtan and yoga, and in the mid 1990Õs he began teaching meditation and leading Kirtans across America. Dave and his band currently tour tirelessly, performing at hundreds of yoga studios throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Kirtan is a form of devotional mantra chanting that has become popular as a participatory live music experience. DaveÕs unique sound fuses the transcendent mysticism of traditional instruments with the exuberant, groove oriented sound of American gospel, jazz and funk. The intention of Kirtan is consciousness-transformation. The singers merge into the Sanskrit words and experience a sense of unity, well-being and timelessness. The mantras quiet the mind, and the music frees the heart. Ecstasy is both the process and the product. Divas & Devas, DaveÕs amazing new album of East Indian Kirtan with contemporary arrangements, is sung as male-female duets, in Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi. The album is rich with the romantic and intimate interplay of masculine and feminine, symbolizing the larger relationship of the human and the divine. The arrangements also echo this dual interplay employing traditional Indian instruments such as tablas, sarangi and santoor, along with Western instruments such as vibes, cello, trumpet, flute, mandolin and lap steel. When: Saturday, August 2nd at 8:00pmWhere:
Black Dog Yoga For tickets, please call 818-380-0331 or visit www.spiritvoyage.com.
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