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✨ We’re celebrating the 10th Anniversary of our beloved CD :: ✨ KIRTAN LILA ✨
You can find all of our Give Peace a Chant CD’s on Spotify, Bandcamp and most other digital platforms, including Apple & iTunes. ✨ 💖 Thanks for listening, sharing and for all your support!

HIGHLIGHTS 2024 / (& 2025, so far) :: ✨ Sharing stellar services with everyone at Gordon Neighbourhood House. Special thanks to ALL for helping make these community fundraiser events soulfully sweet and successful:

HIGHLIGHTS 2024 :: Friday Night Kirtan at Gordon Neighbourhood House in Vancouver, BC.

Join us for Friday Night Kirtan at Gordon House 2024 / 25. We’re delighted to be returning for a number of live music fundraisers, starting October 4th at Gordon Neighbourhood House in the West End, Vancouver.

Our first events in a long while, we’re looking forward to a brand new collaboration of artists and co-hosts. Our first offering, 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! This events is held by donation with proceeds going to support much needed GNH programs and projects. Reservations are available online at eventbrite.

Links for events can be found in our newsletter. Subscribe here on this page, (keep scrolling to find the subscribe box). We don’t sent campaigns regularly anymore so, please check your junk box every once in a while! Also, we do not sell or share your info, ever.

The Friday Night Kirtan w/ Give Peace a Chant project is presented by Gordon House as a volunteer operated musical community event. If you would like to volunteer, to contribute something like-minded, or be on the helper’s team, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact us at:

givepeaceachantvancouver@ gmail .com

We’re currently doing our best to keep up with e-mails, messages and social media. Thanks for your patience and ongoing support. ✨ Our plan is to have this website updated sometime in 2025.

✨ Stay Tuned, Beautiful Soul. Lots more to come. 🌼

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Summer 2024 Update: We hope you’re having a blessed summer, blissful friends!
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HIGHLIGHTS 2024 :: April 28 & June 28 – Whistler, B.C. KIRTAN w/ friend and sanga sister, Tina Pashumati James up at Nita Lodge. Tina ji & her advanced yoga community – an all levels workshop – that includes Tina’s INSPIRING sound healing ceremony with bowls, chants and vedic mantra, and later shared some kirtan songs we learned from Shyamdas, call and answer w/ Sandra Leigh. Then we stood in a great big circle, and shared a heartwarming celebration of LIGHT singing ARATI and songs of LIGHT in Whistler & @Pemberton yoga community. We’ll meet again!

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

‘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.

HIGHLIGHTS :: 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.
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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!

~ 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

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.

 

Vancouver Courier, January, 2017

Read the entire article here

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

Read the review here @ BC Musician Magazine

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