The world is a stage for Chicago Children’s Choir as they bring the world musical and cultural treasure ‘Sita Ram’ back to life in Chicago and beyond. Chicago – Chicago Children’s Choir is collaborating with Lookingglass Theater Director David Kersnar and the critically-acclaimed Natya Dance Theatre to re-launch the world musical “Sita Ram” on stage [...]
Jai will be doing a live interview on The Golden Age Music Show on Sunday at 9pm ET/6pm PT. Call in to request a song— if you're one of the first three callers, you'll win a copy of "Queen of Hearts!" More information about the show can be found here.
Hey there, friends..... Well, it's been many years since I released my first album, Footprints, in 1990. Life's panoramic vistas have changed immensely in many many ways; personally, I've passed through beautiful, joyous mountain tops and dark, lonely, despairing caverns, chronicling it all in fourteen CDs and many smaller musical and spiritual projects. Although stylistically [...]
Can You Train The Heart? On October 20th and 21st noted bhakti and kirtan leader Jai Uttal will present a weekend of chanting, devotion and teaching to the students of the Yogamaya as part of their teacher training. Fortunately for the rest of us, this program will be open to the general public so we [...]
by Chris Grosso CG: So here we are in lovely Estes Park, CO for the 2012 Yoga Journal Conference. As I’ve been taking in this beautiful scenery the past few days it sparked my curiosity about your personal experience while performing in relation to the various locations worldwide you travel too. Do they affect said [...]
I'm excited to be getting to a few places in the next few weeks I don't regularly get to — Estes Park for the Yoga Journal Colorado Conference, Washington, DC, Connecticut, and NYC. Take a look at my tour page for more details as well as info about Prana Fest and several events in California. [...]
As the shocking reality of my old friend Geoffrey Gordon's death begins to sink in, I've been remembering more and more of the amazing times we shared together. I think we met and became instant friends around 1970, and continued our adventures on and off for so many years. Geoffrey was right by my side [...]
So, a couple of months ago I was on the telephone deeply immersed in a long and somewhat boring conversation about business, music, career, choices, options, and plans.... Yes, important things, but, ugh....... My heart was begging me to stop thinking and talking and just start singing and bust down the walls of fear and [...]
With a bunch of bouncy sing-along kirtans and stories about the elephant god Ganesha, the monkey god Hanuman, Krishna, Govinda, and friends (replete with elephant cries and other fun noises), world music mainstay Jai Uttal creates the perfect gift for the yoga-children generation. An ideal present for kids just beginning to understand the power at [...]
Kirtan Kids are here to stay!!!! The new generation of chanters is changing the sound of devotional singing, and all we grownups can do is open our hearts, sing along and let the voices of the Kirtan Kids wash away our sorrows in great waves of joy and FUN! To celebrate these divine little singers [...]