KIRTANIYAS, C. Garcias (2026)

They grew up in a Vedic culture of song, dance, philosophy and devotion between ashrams and temples both in India and the western world. Vijay Krsna, band leader, studied devotional Indian folk music known as “Kirtan” in the sacred village of Vrindavana, India. This rare traditional art form is an ancient call-and-response mantra chanting practice, that originated in the Indian subcontinent over 5

000 years ago. Joined together with musically gifted Sarasvati Dasi, soulful vocalist Rasika Dasi and producer Nitai Gaur Prem (Makhana), Vijay Krsna formed KIRTANIYAS in 2009. Members including Malini Taneja, Nakula Das, Jamuna Sheth and Atul Krsna have since travelled the World to over 20 countries infusing new life to these ancient chants with youthful spirit and energy. A full KIRTANIYAS presentation features up to seven of its members. Besides the largely traditional approach to their acoustic sets, KIRTANIYAS now push the boundaries of genre to combine all of their passions into one new and unique sound. Melodious dance orientated "Worldbeat" music and subsonic bass meets the call and response singing of ancient Sanskrit mantras, accompanied by live acoustic instruments. This is where the boundaries between performers and audience become blurred, everybody is united in one voice and everybody becomes the band. Early 2012 saw the release of the long anticipated first acoustic album called “Heart & Soul” with distribution through Silenzio (Europe) and White Swan Records (USA). Funded largely by the groups growing fan base, the album debuted at #11 on the iTunes World music chart. The band members are multi-instrumentalists accomplished in traditional Indian style vocals, Harmonium, classical Violin, Tabla and Mrdanga drums, hand cymbals, bells, Gub gubi, music production, hiphop and classical Bharatnatyam, Oddissi dance forms. They have collaborated with artists such as Cheb i Sabbah, Kula Shaker, The Polish Ambassador, Jai Uttal, MC Yogi, DJ Drez amongst others.

03/03/2026

Join us this Friday for a community Kirtan at ✨🦚📿

.dasi

14/12/2025

Passes for INDIAN nationals (OCI/NRI included) are available for our KIRTAN DAO: Intensive training - Rishikesh edition.

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Group rates available. No kirtan experience required. Welcome to all ages.

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03/11/2025

Join KIRTANIYAS founder Vijay Krsna and friends for KIRTAN DAO: Intensive training - Rishikesh edition

19-26 JANUARY 2026

- A kirtan immersion like no other
- Surrounded by Himalayas and Sacred Ganga River
- Daily kirtan tuition with instruments and application
- Stories of the ancients, meanings of mantras and chants, spoken in today's language
- A "come as you are", non judgemental policy
- No cults, no trips, no problem

More to come...

07/05/2024

How delightful to have 3/5 of our group together in Bali, Indonesia. .dasi

Joined by other dear friends of devotion and goodness. .sundari and

Shout out to our other group members across the Pacific - .dasi and | wish you were here x

AUM Swasti Astu - sharing blessings from this land, filled with Divinity and sacred surroundings, temples, devotional dance, adorned with flowers and scents of incense offerings.

22/04/2024

Greetings community.

I’m delighted to see this page continuing to grow, despite being somewhat neglected by me, who sees it as my seva (fulfilling service) to keep all KIRTANIYAS platforms flowing with our adventures.

Since the pandemic, our full group have not been reunited… We still have many incomplete offerings to share with you all - devotional music recordings, more YouTube videos and much more.

Your encouragement has meant so much to all of us. I’m confident that our KIRTANIYAS group will eventually be back on tour again together in the future.

For now, you can follow some of our Kirtan and Bhakti adventures thru our personal pages. There’s some amazing stuff happening…

Kindly keep your blessings coming. Our lives are dedicated to making our contribution, bringing some joy to the people of this generation and the next.

Om Swasti Astu - pranams, heartfelt regards from Bali, Indonesia.

VK

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