Sounds True Press Room

November 16, 2011

Announcing Jai Uttal’s “Kirtan Kids: The Elephant, the Monkey, and the Little Butter Thief”

Filed under: JAI UTTAL, kirtan, music, spirituality, Yoga — Sounds True Press Room @ 11:33 am


Share the unique gift 
of Kirtan with the whole family this holiday season
Grammy®-nominee Jai Uttal presents the first record of its kind created for families to sing, laugh, dance, and celebrate life together. Call-and-response singing has a rich history as a teaching tool beloved by generations. In India’s devotional tradition, we find this music in the form of kirtan, an inspirational art that is steadily gaining popularity among Western yoga practitioners—and their children! Featuring a children’s choir accompanying Jai, Kirtan Kids will delight listeners with both Sanskrit and English chants and playful stories.

In Jai’s Words:
“When Ezra Gopal was first born a friend commented to me with some sympathy that my devotional practices must really be suffering as I devoted more and more time to being a daddy. I laughed inwardly, as only an exhausted parent can. But I also rested in the wondrous reality and knowledge that Bhakti, or devotion, only begins when we take ourselves out of the ‘number one’ spot and put another one there. And what better way to experience service than having a child. The surprise was that as I quite naturally and happily began to put my son’s needs before my own, I couldn’t help but notice that God seemed so much closer, and Kirtan seemed so much richer.

I invite all of us mommas and poppas to enter the amazing world of Kirtan, to sing with our little ones, to take turns leading, and to keep our hearts and minds ever more open to the mysteries, the miracles and the infinite love that always surrounds us.”  — Jai Uttal, October 2011

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