September events
Kirtan with Shubalananda - Friday, September 20th, 7:30pm
Shubal and friends are back!
Join us to sing your true heart's song with Shubalananda & his band!
This Dakshina based Bhakti yogic practice is offered freely to the community so all are welcome. Please leave a generous donation if you can in addition to your love, appreciation & meaningful participation.
Shubalananda Saraswati is an American sadhu who has been devoutly traveling since 1995 to share his powerful blues rooted kirtan - an ancient call & response spiritual practice from India. His voice of deep bhava & his masterful musical skills allow Shubal to humbly offer his kirtan as a loving gift to his Guru, to his highest self & to the community around him.
When Shubal sings, his Guru's Shakti fills everyone in the room with a tangibly nourishing soulful energy. His true love, deep wisdom, & the grace of his Guru create an ecstatic transcendent healing vibration accessing the grounded stillness of enlightened consciousness.
TGS Presents a Workshop on Embodiment & Encounter, With Emily Lunardi. Sunday, September 22nd, 12-2pm
Please join us for an afternoon of being present in the body, connecting with others, and not taking ourselves too seriously!
This workshop is not a therapy group, but a time to learn and move in the body while interacting with others. This workshop is inspired by a drama therapy method known as Developmental Transformations (DvT), which uses play, embodiment, and encounter as a way to move through difficult moments and open up new perspectives.
Emily Lunardi (she/her) is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Drama Therapist, specializing in LGBTQIA+ mental health. Emily is a recent adjunct of Lesley University’s Graduate Department of Expressive Therapies, as well as Endicott College’s School of Visual and Performing Arts.
Previously based in Boston, Emily is in the midst of a travel year, running her practice virtually while visiting new places. She is thrilled to be in Keene for a bit, and excited to share her love of play and community at The Gathering Space.
$5 suggested donation. Reserve your spot here
Connect with Emily at www.emilylunardi.com or @emilylunardilmhc on Instagram.
The ReMemberers - Sunday, September 22nd, 6pm
Join us for an evening of mesmerizing, ritual, song, story and music. This gathering of sacred singing and wisdom story weave together a few of the best ancient customs of being human. The ReMemberers practice community-based ritual story telling and song. Annie Southard's numinous vocalizations, Alex Harvey's vibrating strings and John de Kadt’s percussion and wisdom tales collide into a single heart opening experience.
A multi-disciplinary encounter at its most spontaneous, this sharing offers ancient stories from a variety of indigenous and mystical origins that are accompanied by a variety of traditional and original music. The ReMemberers call their genre "prayer-formance" - a gathering of attention that invites listeners to turn inward and explore the contours of their own mythologies. The ReMemberers aim to reconnect the dismembered parts of our individual, collective and ancestral selfs - allowing us, for a time - to dwell in a village of wholeness.
Sliding scale tickets $20 -$45. Kids 12 and under free.
Purchase tickets here
October events
Kirtan Bliss - Mantra Music & Heartsong Experience with Gershone and Gina - Wednesday, October 2nd, 7pm
Gershone and Gina blend elements of traditional kirtan with creative and improvisational heart songs for a mantra music experience like no other. Merging raw and edgy with sublime and transcendent, G&G’s soul-stirring, nectar-filled, high energy mantra music will open, inspire, and transform you! Mantras are ancient vibrational tools that hold the highest bliss and intelligence…chanting them realigns and recalibrates our being, while grounding and emanating goodness, beauty, and love here on planet earth.
Join us for community and upliftment, and to offer your prayers and highest wishes for yourself and for humanity. You are welcome to lay back and receive, or to sing and dance with us!
When two who have devoted their lives to their art join forces, the creative chemistry is contagious. Gina Minyard and Gershone Hendelberg have more than four decades of practice, teaching, and experience between them in yogic arts and bhakti bliss, and began collaborating in 2022. Together, they commit their body, mind, heart, breath, and voice in service to the Most High and the majesty of its manifest expressions. In their offerings of yoga, music, meditation, kirtan, and satsang, they invite others into the grounding, elevating, and ever-expanding process of tuning their own divine instruments, and to come together in transformational alchemy, joyful communion, sacred embodiment, and ecstatic celebration. Based out of Atlanta, GA, join them for classes, workshops, festivals, trainings, and retreats nationally and worldwide.
Gershone and Gina will be joined by:
Danny Solomon on bass
Ezra Landis on guitar
Owen Landis on percussion
This event is by donation, reserve your spot here
An Evening of Kirtan, Medicine Songs and Mystic Poetry with Brenda McMorrow, John de Kadt and Adam Bauer - Sunday, October 13th, 6:30 - 9pm
We are thrilled to announce that, as part of their Fire of the Heart Tour, Brenda McMorrow and John de Kadt are teaming up with Adam Bauer for a double bill Kirtan Concert at the Gathering Space!
This is sure to be an evening full of heartfelt music, mantra, poetry, dance, love, joy, reverence, and community! Seating is very limited, so buying tickets in advance is highly recommended!
Ticket prices: $35 in advance, $40 at the door. Children 12 and under free.
Purchase ticket here
Brenda McMorrow
Brenda McMorrow is known for her unique and warmly embracing style of mantra medicine music, in which she blends elements of acoustic folk, world rhythms and ancient Indian chants with a sweetly introspective singer-songwriter’s sensibility. With Sanskrit Mantra and Kirtan as the basis, Brenda weaves in the power of Spanish Medicine songs and her own inspiring English lyrics to create a healing and uplifting tapestry with the audience.
Yoga Journal describes Brenda as having “a knack for expressing the deepest realizations in the sparsest lyrics”. Spiritual teacher Ram Dass has said: “Brenda has a gift”, and her intention is to help bring more beauty, peace, understanding and well-being into the world through the joy and healing power of music. Brenda’s music is touching hearts across the globe.
John de Kadt
John de Kadt is an accomplished and acclaimed percussionist, storyteller and poet. John plays ethnic percussion instruments from across the globe and has a passion for spoken word, whether it’s in poetry, song, rap, or story. John has released 6 albums which have a combined 100 million streams across 194 countries. Inspired by a love of the earth, community, and wisdom traditions, John’s music, story and poetry stirs the heart and points us towards a remembrance of ourselves and the wildness of the natural world.
Adam Bauer
After co-founding reggae-rock band The Equalites at 21, Adam spent years playing bass with sacred chant pioneer Krishna Das, and later with Bhakti Yoga scholar and practitioner Shyamdas, both of whom nourished his love of sacred sound and the yoga of devotion. He’s been leading sacred chant programs since 2012.
Heart Centered Kirtan - Saturday, October 26th, 7pm
Come clear your mind and soothe your heart with some Heart Centered Kirtan! Everyone is welcome including kids of all ages.
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Since 2013, Heart Centered Kirtan has been offering kirtan throughout New England with their original call-and-response devotional music. Weaving Sanskrit and Buddhist mantras into a unique blend of modern Western musical styles, Heart Centered Kirtans are meditative and uplifting experiences.
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Your mantra music guides will be: Libby Volckening (keys/vox), Ezra Landis (guitar), Thomas Matherly (bass), and Owen Landis (percussion).
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$20 suggested donation appreciated, let your heart guide you to offer whatever is right for you. Purchase tickets here, or donations will also gratefully accepted at the door (cash, check, PayPal, or Venmo).
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Ten percent of all proceeds will be donated to Kroka Expeditions, a non-profit wilderness expedition school based on a year-round, organic farm in Marlow, New Hampshire. They believe that consciousness and altruistic will can be brought forward through a living relationship with the natural world, and by taking our places within the circle of community. For more info, visit https://kroka.org/
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Masks are optional and welcome. Please stay home and take good care of yourself if you have any symptoms, such as cough, fever, etc. ~OR~ if you have had recent exposure to someone who has COVID or another contagious disease.
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Questions? Call 413-834-4524, email heartcenteredkirtan@gmail.com, or visit www.heartcenteredkirtan.com
Diwali Guided Meditation & Soundbath - Sunday, October 27th, 1:30 - 3pm
Join Together We Heal & Michelle Davis for their 2nd annual Diwali Guided Meditation & Sound Bath Journey.
Michelle will guide you through a deeper awareness of your chakras, before leading you into a state of deep relaxation.
Hannah & Heather will play high vibrational healing sounds to soothe your soul, transform your heart, and renew your spirit. You will experience inner stillness, rest, and rejuvenation.
Purchase tickets here
November events
Kirtan with Adam Bauer - Sunday, November 10th - 4pm
We are thrilled to welcome Adam Bauer back to The Gathering Space! We had such a magical time with him when he was here last spring. The energy in the room was off the hook!
We hope you'll join us
Adam will be joined by:
Danny Solomon on Bass
Ezra Landis on Guitar
Owen Landis on Percussion
And special guests!
$20 - $40 Sliding scale. Children 12 and under free. Purchase tickets here
A little bit about Adam:
Adam Bauer travels the globe sharing the heart-expanding beauty of kirtan, healing touch, the I Ching, and transformational conversation. Adam spent years playing bass with kirtan pioneer Krishna Das, and later with Bhakti Yoga legend Shyamdas, both of whom nourished his love of sacred sound and the yoga of devotion. He has released three critically-acclaimed records: Shyam Lila debuted on Mantralogy Records in 2014, Wonderville was released in 2017, and Return to the Sacred in 2020. Adam sings & offers workshops, programs & coaching sessions worldwide, enchanting and inspiring listeners with his deep, soulful voice and presence wherever he goes.
Pure Kirtan - November 23rd, 7pm
Pure Kirtan has been performing their unique energetic, and blissful style of Kirtan throughout New England since 2011. The group is a trio of spiritual practitioners, teachers, and musicians: Angie Follensbee-Hall, born in Catania, Sicily, a yoga instructor, spiritual teacher, and fine handmade paper artist leads vocals, Joshua Hall, a classical guitarist/composer, and music teacher leads on guitar, and Ko Dustin, a yoga teacher and musician on djembe and percussion.
$20 Tickets. Link coming soon.
For more information, visit: angiefollensbeehall.com or joshhallmusic.com