Kirtan

Go here to see it on Youtube.

Just started.

Listen to it live here: Kirtan Australia Internet Radio

Added a switch to the battery pack for the Shure wireless headset mic receiver, just in time for tonight's Harinam. 7pm outside Govindas, downtown Brisbane, Australia, every Friday.

Dedicated to Professor Richard Dawkins.

Mad props to DJ Vraj for the video.

Naveen leading kirtan at 11am at the New Govardhana 12 hour kirtan

Currently broadcasting one of the best streams yet - the 12 hour kirtan in New Govardhana with Amala Kirtan.

Check out the feed on the Kirtan Australia Internet Radio page.

Sunday 25 July, 2010 9am - 9pm 12 hour kirtan New Govardhana

Current time and date in New Govardhana:

Here's the line-up:
11.30am Vrndavanchandra
12pm Binod Bihari
12.30pm Janna Griffith
1pm Jada Bharata
1.30pm Chandra Vallabha
2pm Mallika
2.30pm Mohini Murti
3pm Bhusaya
3.30pm Janardana
4pm Hari Bhakti
4.30pm Amala Kirtan
6.30pm Sridhama Navadwipa
7pm Krishnapada
7.30pm Sitapati
8pm Prema Yogi
8.30pm Vrajadhama

Ekendra is at the controls of the main mixer, a Mackie Onyx 1640i, which is also feeding a multitrack recording via firewire. I'm getting my feed via an aux channel on the desk and piping it through a USB sound card into a laptop running Fedora 11, then using darkice to send it via wireless 3G to a server in Los Angeles running RHEL 5 and Icecast, using Centovacast front end, and then it comes down to you, in whatever client you want, via a link on the Kirtan Australia Internet Radio page.

Ekendra running the main sound and multitrack recording

The computer being used for the webstream, via the 3G key on the left. The Tascam is doing a backup recording of the stream that is going to the web

This is a +12dB gain antenna for the 3G wireless key. I bought this after we had problems streaming the Canberra Maha Kirtan - "never again" ;-) (Krishna willing)

Amala Kirtan and Tahir Qawwal rock it live at the Byron Bay Community Centre Theatre.

The Yoga Bliss Tour hits Brisbane.

The entire tour was dedicated to Aindra. We learned of his death on the first day of the tour as we sat in the 24 hour kirtan in Canberra.

At the Harmony Centre in Sydney.

Mercifully I was sitting in the 24 hour kirtan in Canberra when news of Aindra Acarya's death reached me. Two of my godsisters in South America sent me the news via internets, which I was monitoring for feedback on the live stream of the kirtan.

The first question I asked when I heard, was: "What is the pramana (evidence)?" Carana Renu, my godsister in Brazil, forwarded me an email from a PAMHO mailing list.

I told Krishnapada after the first report that this news was out there, but that I was awaiting confirmation, and when Sati devi from Peru sent me an email announcement from ISKCON Desire Tree I informed Amala Kirtan. Then devotees passed my iPhone with the news around while the kirtan continued.

After 15 minutes Amala Kirtan's turn came on the roster, and we took a brief break to announce the news of the end of Aindra's manifest pastimes. Amala then lead a tribute to Aindra kirtan, which became our meditation for the remaining 20 or so hours of the kirtan.

I had planned to go home and sleep during the night, as we have a week or traveling and late nights doing kirtan ahead of us, and I just got back from an intense world trip, but after this news I couldn't go. I slept for a few hours in the temple lobby, where I could still hear the kirtan. Our time is limited, and we should never leave the kirtan of the devotees.

We are now traveling on the tour with the above picture of this modern-day incarnation of the sakti of Haridas Thakur.

Amala Kirtan sings after the news of Aindra's death reaches us

Kirtan is ever blissful, renders eternal benefit, and is our only shelter in this world

Once again, devotees from all the major centres of Australia gathered in Canberra to do kirtan together

Aindra has influenced an entire generation of kirtaniyas and contributed not only a distinctive style of kirtan, but also a culture of kirtan, inspired by his quarter century-long non-stop 24 hour kirtan

Kirtan means the glorification of the Supreme. Sankirtan means the congregational glorification of the Supreme. Kirtan is the great unifier

Let this glorification go on eternally in this world and may we always be part of it, wherever we may be

Check out the live stream at http://radio.kirtanaustralia.com:8000/kirtanradio.m3u.

If that doesn't work for you, go to the Kirtan Australia website and use either the embedded flash player, or one of the little icons to the right side. There are icons for Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, and a Flash player pop-up. One of those should work for you.

The Canberra 24 hour kirtan goes from 9am Saturday to 9am Sunday, and features devotees from all over Australia with special guest Amala Kirtan das.

Canberra is GMT -10. Below is the roster for the 24 hours.

Devotee Name	Time
Vedavyasa Das (Canberra) – Siksastakam	8.45 am-9.00am
Vedavyasa Das (Canberra)	9.00am-9.30am
Kanapathy prabhu (Melbourne)	9.30am-10.00am
Ayodhyadeva Das (Canberra)	10.00am-10.30 am
Bacchu Krishna (Sydney)	10.30am -11.00am
Sandhya Mata ji (Canberra)	11.00am -11.15am
Vrindavan Chandra Das (Canberra)	11.15am-11.30am
Atulya Amrita Krsna Das (Canberra)	11.30am -12.00pm
Girish prabhu (Melbourne)	12.0pm -12.30pm
Tapan Biswas (Canberra)	12.30pm -1.00pm
Vikas Gupta (Canberra)	1.00pm -1.30pm
Janardan prabhu (Brisbane)	1.30pm -2.00pm
Amala Kirtan Das ( Dallas, USA)	2.00pm -3.00pm
Ananda Devi Dasi (Canberra)	3.00pm -3.30pm
Naveen Gupta (Canberra)	3.30pm -4.00pm
Tina Mataji (Sydney)	4.00pm -4.30pm
Karthik Vallabhji (Sydney)	4.30pm -5.00pm
Janna Mataji (Brisbane)	5.00pm -5.30pm
Abhiram Baba (Brisbane)	5.30pm -6.00pm
Ananda Kirtan Band (Sydney)	6.00pm -6.30pm
Ananda Kirtan Band (Sydney)	6.30pm -7.00pm
Amala Kirtan Das ( Dallas, USA)	7.00pm -8.00pm
Krsnapada Das (Brisbane)	8.00pm -9.00pm
Sitapati Das (Brisbane)	9.00pm-10.00pm
Bacchu Krishna (Sydney)	10.00pm-10.30pm
Karthik Vallabhji (Sydney)	10.30pm-11.00pm
Abhirama Baba (Brisbane)	11.00pm-11.30pm
Janna Mataji (Brisbane)	11.30pm-12.00am
Akash Durbarry (Melbourne)	12.00am -12.30am
Bacchu Krishna (Sydney)	12.30am -1.00am
Harsh prabhu (Sydney)	1.00am -1.30am
Vishnu Charan Das (Canberra)	1.30am -2.00am
Nimai prabhu (Cessnock)	2.00am -2.30 am
Kaliya Krishna Das (Cessnock)	2.30am -3.00am
Nimai prabhu (Cessnock)	3.00am -3.30am
Girish prabhu (Melbourne)	3.30am -4.00am
Kanapathy prabhu (Melbourne)	4.00am -4.30am
Ranganath Das (Canberra)	4.30am -5.00am
Harsh Prabhu (Sydney)	5.00am -5.30am
Vedavyasa das (Canberra)	5.30am -6.00am
Svayambhur das (Canberra)	6.00am -6.30am
Akash Durbarry (Melbourne)	6.30am -7.00am
Krsnapada das (Brisbane)	7.00am -7.30am
Sitapati Das (Brisbane)	7.30am -8.00am
Janardan prabhu (Brisbane)	8.00am -8.30am
Amala Kirtan Das ( Dallas, USA)	8.30am -9.00am