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✨ We’re so sorry, but this event – Friday, Feb 7th, 7:30 pm at Gordon Neighbourhood House
has been cancelled due to illness. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause!✨

Group photo of presenters, volunteers, and some of the lovely guests who attended the Friday Night Kirtan Dec 6th, 2024 at Gordon Neighbourhood House in the Westend, Vancouver, BC. Thank you, All!

A Celebration of Sound & LIGHT ✨ Friday Night Kirtan at Gordon House

We’re delighted to be returning for a number of Friday Night Kirtan, starting October 4th, 7 pm at Gordon Neighbourhood House in the West End, Vancouver.

Our first events back in a long while, with a brand new collaboration of artists, Chant for the Devi, honours the rising of Divine Feminine Consciousness at this incredible time in history. What a time to be alive! Jai Ma!
Held by Donation with proceeds going to support GNH.
Reservations are available online at eventbrite, see the link above for the current Friday date.

P.S. The Friday Night Kirtan w/ Give Peace a Chant, presented by Gordon House is a 99.9% volunteer operated musical community event.

We are always building our team with the motto “Many hands make ✨LIGHT✨ work” so if your hands are available and / or you would like to contribute something like-minded, or play with us, we’d love your help, both at the event and / or after. Contact us at givepeaceachantvancouver@ gmail .com

Please note, we’re doing our best to update our website, and keep up with e-mails, messages and social media. Thanks for your patience and ongoing support. ✨ Our website will be updated in 2025✨ Stay Tuned. 🌼

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Summer 2024 Update: We hope you’re having a blessed summer, friends! Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter. 🙂 Hope to see you soon!

April 28 & June 28 – Whistler, B.C. Visiting our dear friend and sanga sister Tina Pashumati James for another rousing kirtan session with Tina ji leading her advanced yoga community in an all levels workshop from the Whistler & Pemberton yoga community. Natural Smudge and Bowl by Clara John at the beginning of the event as a reminder for grounding and purification @ Nita Lodge, Whistler.

February 29 – Bowen Island. Singing together on the eve of a leap year is a rare blessing. It was an honour to share at the sacred graduation ceremony with Tina Pashumati James’ Loka Yoga School’s YTT at Nectar Yoga Retreat Centre on Bowen Island.
Congratulations to all the radiant new yoga teachers! We love you, Tina!

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August 14, 2023 – Vancouver, B.C. Good News! After such a long time, we’re pleased to announce a new CD release! Welcome ‘Yamuna Lila’ by Give Peace a Chant.

Tap & listen on Bandcamp

Album Artwork: ‘Lotus Hand’ by Krati Jasoria @ the_art_souk

‘Yamuna Lila’ is available at most digital outlets, including Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, YouTube, YogiTunes.com and more. We hope you enjoy our humble offering and listen freely, in the spirit of the sacred river Yamuna ji that flows in India.

Thanks for following and adding our music to your library and playlists.
Stay tuned for our upcoming workshop, details coming soon.

GPaC’s ‘Yamuna Lila’ recording project was made possible through The Vancouver Music Fund via Creative BC, The City of Vancouver & The Government of British Columbia.

March 6, 2023 – North Vancouver, B.C. We’re so happy to be back in the studio recording and preparing a beautiful new ‘Give Peace a Chant’ mantra CD, to be released August 14, ’23.

Jan. 15, 2023 – Coal Harbour, B.C. Thanks everyone for attending the kirtan reunion event, Jan 14, 2023 at Coal Harbour. A beautiful afternoon with many friendly voices, new and familiar friends meeting up after such a long time. Even the SUN came out! Looking forward to more, soon.


UPDATE 2022 – ‘Give Peace a Chant’ CDs are also available for streaming on YogiTunes, “a fully licensed, fair trade music service providing top quality soundtracks for yoga, meditation, movement, and other healing arts. Making Videos? YogiTunes is Live Stream friendly. Our tracks make for great royalty free background music for Zoom® YouTube®, Facebook®, Instagram® and more”. We recommend ‘Divine Play’ for a lush Instrumental background, perfect for yoga classes and practice at home!

Find us on Apple Music as well the digital outlets at the tabs above.
Thanks for subscribing and adding us to your playlists!

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▶️✨Give Peace a Chant on YouTube

▶️✨YogaMovesOnline w/ original soundtrack by ‘Give Peace a Chant’
Thanks for subscribing, we truly appreciate your support!

2020 – Live music and group singing may be on hold, but it’s not forever. Let’s stay positive and get creative with the ongoing situation. Reaching out and sharing your good vibes could be helping someone more than you know!

Visit the KIRTAN COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD FB group and share your kirtan events, music, videos, classes, festivals, workshops!

We’re patiently waiting to return to kirtan events, in-person work and play! We’ve been connecting on Zoom and to make use of this time, we’ve been working on a small project, i108 music videos, produced by Sandhya Music on an iPhone, at home! The i108 videos are posted to our YouTube channel linked below. Thanks very much for subscribing to our music channel!

Click on the image for video

~ Give Peace a Chant Kirtan in Kitsilano ~ many moons ago, now.

2019 Music Update:
‘Divine Play’ Instrumental remix project, i108 (music for yoga), remixing favourite live ‘Give Peace a Chant’ kirtan recordings, our studio recordings, and world instrumentals. The original tracks were created especially for yoga class, dance choreography, yoga dance, body work, too.

2018 – Updates:
Preview ‘Give Peace a Chant’ on Bandcamp
Follow us and add us to your playlists on Spotify

Summer ’17 Update

2017 – Give Peace a Chant’s ‘Divine Play’ CD is now soundtrack for a local television show project, ‘Yoga Moves for Every Body’ with Sandra Leigh and Friends, airing on Shaw TV and Multicultural Channels in Vancouver and Calgary. The series is available on YouTube as YogaMovesOnline

2017 –  ‘Gopal Lila’ EP our 3rd CD was released on Sandhya Records©, available at most digital outlets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2017 – Sandhya Records was established.
Sandhya Music is registered with SOCAN.

 

2017 News and Reviews

Vancouver Courier, January, 2017
The Vancouver Courier

Read the entire article here

BC Musician Magazine Reviews ‘Divine Play’ by Give Peace a Chant

Thanks to The Lovecast with Dave O Rama in Nanaimo, BC 🇨🇦 for the sweet review!

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Read the review here @ BC Musician Magazine

Good NEWS: ‘Divine Play’ released on Bandcamp!

Mostly an Instrumental version of the ‘Kirtan Lila’ CD, ‘Divine Play’ is available on Bandcamp,  iTunes, Amazon, Google+ and Spotify.

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Welcome News! ✨🙏✨ ‘Kirtan Lila’ CD released, June 2015

‘Kirtan Lila’ is available on Bandcamp iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and Spotify. Thanks for listening and sharing.

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We are grateful to live, work, and record our events on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish (Sḵwxwú7mesh), and Musqueam (Xwméthkwyiem) Nations.

May All Beings Be Peaceful.