The band Jhankaar and kirtan performers Sumukhi and Sean McCoy will infuse our closing event with healing music and chanting rooted in Indian tradition. Join us Saturday, March 27, 2010 from for our closing celebration at the Amala Foundation, starting at 6:30 PM. All ages are welcome. Children under 10 receive free admission. Your suggested donation of $15-20 for anyone over age 10 will benefit SafePlace. No one turned away! You're invited to celebrate and send healing energy through music and voice with us! You can find more information about our closing celebration here, on our calendar.

Meet Jhankaar

Jhankaar is a band devoted to folk/classical/devotional music rendered in traditional Indian ragas and beats, peppered with instrumental and vocal ensembles influenced by world music. Housed in Austin - a techie town and the world capital of live music - Jhankaar "bytes" a.k.a, band members specialize in vocal music, keyboard, percussion, and string instruments. Jhankaar has performed in various Austin events - Keep Austin Spicy at Ladybird Johnson Park, Bengali New Year Festival at Zilker Park, and the Pecan Street Festival to name a few - and received much appreciation and encouragement from an eclectic audience. Jhankaar looks forward to continuing their musical journey with the Ishtar Project.

Meet Sumukhi and Sean McCoy

Kirtan is a beautiful and highly accessible part of the Bhakti or devotional path of Yoga. In kirtan, the caller (chant leader) sings the divine name and you, the responder, sing it back. Eventually the call and the response become One. Sumukhi chants so that she can serve as a conduit between the endless and the limited, the form and the formless, the divine and the human in all of us. She practices mantra japa (divine repetition of sacred sounds) so that the divine pulsation can become one with her heartbeat. And she loves to share this practice with everyone through kirtan. Website: www.yogafly.com. Sean McCoy is a musician who found himself immersed in Kundalini Yoga, Kirtan and Bhakti and won't stop until everyone is singing with him.

Celebrate and Give! Closing Event Schedule:*

6:30 - Introductions/Opening

6:45 - Indian Ragas w/ Jhankaar

7:15 - Ayurvedic Fire Ceremony w/ Kerry Meath

8:00 - Break

8:15 - Kirtan w/ Sumukhi and Sean McCoy

9:15 - Moment of silence for SafePlace and survivors of sexual and domestic violence

- Continue with kirtan as we feel called

*This is a tentative schedule. Times are subject to change. Please check back for updates or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for information.*