A few weeks ago, Gaura went down to South America for the Brazilian Festival of India and 24 Hour Kirtan, so we are all learning a little bit of Portugese (estamos aprendendo o português).
Gaura was at the Festival of India in Pindo, Brazil for Ratha Yatra, a parade native to Orissa, India, where Lord Jagannatha (Krishna) is annually taken out onto the street on a beautifully decorated cart. Of course, the parade involves a lot of kirtan, (kirtan vivo! ) a lot of clapping, ( a gente do Brasil gosta de aplaudir) and a lot of dancing (a gente do Brasil gosta de dançar).
Then, in a beautiful valley in the region of Ribeirao Grande, the real kirtan began. These were the rules: the kirtan had to be continuous for 24 Hours. We could change kirtan leaders, but the transition needed to be flawless. The result was that the people of the remote and eco-friendly farm community, Nova Gokula, were singing and dancing all night!
Some more Kirtan recordings from our second show in Upstate NY. We were honored to stay with and perform for our friends Saci Suta, Keli Lalita, Raghunath and Bridget and their amazing and large familes.
Hot off the editing table, become inspired by these realizations and recaps from the 24 Hour Kirtan Festival 2008. Immediately following the completion of the 24 hours, we went and asked the participants to share any realizations that came to them. Here’s what followed.
On a side note, we have changed over our YouTube account name to user name: GauraVanicom. This account has all the videos we have on the old account plus some new ones. If you have a subscription to our channel, make sure you subscribe to this new one: www.youtube.com/gauravanicom.
Here is our last video of the 24 Hour Kirtan Festival. Between photos, sound systems and power outages we weren’t able to get video of each of the singers. Don’t worry though, we have a great video coming out soon of all the Kirtan attendees expressing their thoughts and realizations right after the Kirtan completion.
And for now enjoy this video of His Holiness Radhanath Swami leading the last Kirtan of the 24 hours…
We just put up 6 new 24 Hour Kirtan videos to our YouTube Channel. We also created a 24 Hour Kirtan Playlist so you can watch/listen to them all in a row.
An update on the MP3s - Our friend Sri Ram is sending us his recordings to digitize and post up. We should have the rest of the MP3s up sometime next week.
Here are the latest round of MP3s from the 24 Hour Kirtan Festival. We have started listing the collection of MP3s from this year on the same 24 Hour Kirtan page from last year. Visit 24 Hour Kirtan Main Page for the complete listing.
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