Our recent release, Ancient Spirit (Kirtan Cafe Vol. ii), is on the Best Seller list at Spirit Voyage Music for all music sales. Check out the sacred music CD's at this online storefront-- a great selection of sacred chants, Native American, yoga, and dance music >>

Our latest CD, Ancient Spirit, has been named "Best of Year" 2006 by Backroads Music!

Backroads is the source for more than 4000 titles in genres including vocals & chants, world music, chill-out/electronica, yoga & healing arts, ambient, and contemporary instrumental. Suppliers include virtually all of the 200 or so independent domestic labels releasing these genres of music, all the key major U.S. labels, and artists and distributors from Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and The Netherlands, among other far off locales.

The Heartbeats Backroads catalog has been the single most comprehensive and defining source of information about these music genres to the industry and to individual consumers.

Ragani's music has been awarded "Runner-Up" in the Best Production category of the International Music Awards 2006, sponsored by the Music Aid Organization in association with the United Nations UNV program, IMA Productions, Broadjam.com and other leading international music industry partners. Winners were selected from thousands of artists in over 20 countries.

Turn the World to Love, a newly licensed CD commemorating the 10th anniversary of the mahasamadhi of our beloved Sri Swami Rama was released this November in India, at the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT), Swamiji's charitable hospital project. This CD is available exclusively in India at HIHT, and it contains selected sacred chants from our first two full CD releases, Best of Both Worlds and Ancient Spirit. It was released as a tribute to the life and teachings of Swami Rama of the Himalayas, and 100% of proceeds from CD sales will go to the HIHT charitable hospital project.

And don't worry, if you live outside India and are wondering if we secretly released new chants not available elsewhere, we have not. You can get all these tracks (and more!) at CDBaby, iTunes, and Amazon-- visit out CD's page for more info >>

Finally! We're releasing our second CD for the Kirtan Cafe series, and it's entitled "Ancient Spirit". Packed with well over an hour of heartfelt Sanskrit kirtan chants, this CD delivers! Featuring Girish Gambhira and Tim Maher on percussion, this CD was sponsored in part by MargaretAnn's Place.

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Discover stellar and official Kirtan Rocks!TM merchandise at our new Kirtan Rocks!TM store. Find T-shirts, mugs, baby clothes... Something for you, your kids, and even your dog.

Unique gift items designed specifically for the world of die-hard yoga chanters... Kirtan Rocks!TM

Because Kirtan DOES Rock!

Our upcoming kirtan CD, Ancient Spirit (Kirtan Cafe, Vol. II) sponsored in part by MargaretAnn's Place, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the distinctive needs of grieving children. Our heartfelt gratitude to Deb Smith Jones and all the people at MargaretAnn's Place for their loving support of our kirtan CD.
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We're finally releasing this little chant, Om Mani Padme Om, as a Single Release. At 3:54 in length, it promised to be one of our shortest chant songs ever, and it's packed with the usual tastiness of Ragani's vocals, a full chorus, and some fabulous world musicians. Might even say it sounds a little like surfin' music... Or at least something to keep the Buddha dancing...

"Good Vibrations", a kirtan article by Maggie Kuhn Jacobus, appears in Ode Magazine (and on the cover!) of the October 2005 issue. Subtitled, "A musical form of meditation known as kirtan offers fun on the road to enlightenment--even for people who swore they would never meditate."
Go read it >>

Our music is now licensed to IndexMultimedia, a international company based in France that specializing in customized downloads
of mobile phone content including ringtones, images, games, voice-mail messages, video content, ring back tones, video ringtones and messaging, information and other services. IndexMultimedia was chosen by the GIP Rugby World Cup 2007 to develop and host its interactive voice services...

Our Milwaukee Kirtan with Ragani scene was featured on page 5, in the "Mic Check" section of the On Tour With Shure magazine, right there next to Jeff Bridges and Chris Isaak. Yeah! Notably, we do indeed love Shure, and we use some 15 Shure microphones (SM57's, SM58's and ShureBeta 87) for all of our First Friday Milwaukee kirtan events. Thank you, Shure! >>

Ragani was interviewed on WMSE 91.7 World Music program with Tom Crawford (read Shepherd article on Tom Crawford. Check out their internet radio at WMSE website. The interview covered the latest and hottest news about the nation's grassroots kirtan movement and Milwaukee's ongoing Kirtan with Ragani events!

Special SOLD OUT Fundraising Launches the International Kirtan Foundation! On January 28th, we packed into a beautiful lakefront home and filled the ethers with sacred vibrations of kirtan. What a blessed night of good company, fun, celebration! We'll forever remember this night under the full moon with kirtan, royal nibbles, Stella's divine cooking and catering from Roots Restaurant and Cellar, Don's entrancing didgeridoo, and an entire evening of warm camaraderie. A HUGE hug to EVERYONE for helping us raise over $4500 to grow kirtan in Milwaukee and throughout the nation. So many exciting things are happening for the world of kirtan! (And if you missed this event and still want to be a founding donor, click here!)

Maggie Kuhn Jacobus writes a beautiful article, "The Joy of Kirtan", featuring Ragani and a handful of the leading kirtan wallas, for UK's Yoga Magazine.

A "Real World Real Music Awards Show" article on the Just Plain Folks award show appears in the Fifty Anniversary edition of Singer Magazine (aka Singer & Musician magazine). "It's been called the "Grassroots Grammys," but it's really about the revolution that is going on in the awards program that recognizes the "other 98%" of the music made around the world. Great photos and coverage! Go read article >>

Maggie Jacobus' new article "Getting the Kirtan Buzz" on the kirtan scene of Los Angeles in LAYoga Magazine. Read article>>

We think this is big news. Our beautiful new egg shakers have arrived, all hand-stamped with "Kirtan Rocks!" by Tom Gil, who facilitates Rhythm for Unity.

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