by Kitzie | Jun 23, 2016 | Meet the Musicians, New World Kirtan Podcast, Where Is Western Kirtan Headed?
This podcast is the third and last of the series about where Western kirtan is headed, and features the second part of my conversation with Jai Uttal & Ben Leinbach that began in Part 2. We’ll also talk with Nina Rao, and she’ll tell us her view of the...
by Kitzie | Jun 18, 2016 | Meet the Musicians, New World Kirtan Podcast, Where Is Western Kirtan Headed?
The next two podcasts will be released back to back, and they continue the conversation about where Western kirtan is headed. Creative artists today are facing unprecedented challenges, and our kirtan musicians are being deprived of income because of the growth of...
by Kitzie | Dec 10, 2015 | Meet the Musicians, New World Kirtan Podcast
One beautiful day last month my son Jesse & I drove up from San Rafael to Ben Leinbach’s studio where Jai Uttal was just beginning work on his next CD. The four of us had such a fun conversation about all kinds of things — what Jai was for Halloween,...
by Kitzie | Feb 1, 2015 | Mantra Themes, New World Kirtan Podcast
This week’s show started out being about the Kali Yuga — otherwise known as the Age of Quarrel — and ended up being about an epic back spasm that, thanks to the work of Dr. John Sarno, took me on an unexpected & deeply emotional ride. It’s...
by Kitzie | Nov 29, 2014 | New World Kirtan Podcast
If you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while you know that the kirtan community here in Corvallis started with a group of us singing to CDs — the set lists from those Sunday evening satsangs formed the play list for the first year of the podcast....