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Throughout the year we host online and in-person raag Kirtan events for our student community and the public.
We look forward to meeting you at one of our Kirtan events.
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Upcoming Events
Raag Kirtan Concert
As part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2023, a special evening will be highlighting the sacred sounds of Sikh Music. This specific concert will be dedicated towards how Kirtan can support insomnia and memory loss. Join Yogi of Sound Professor Surinder Singh live in Washington, DC. Tickets are first-come-first-served basis.
Date: 7th July 2023
Time: 6pm
Location: Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 2700 F St NW Washington, DC 20566, USA
Kirtan - A Tool for Mental Health
We don't believe the secrets behind raags for improving our mental health should be any secret. That's why we would love to have you join us to uncover all there is to raags in a fun creative way and even learn two raag compositions within 3-days with ease.
Dates: 28th - 30th July 2023
Time: 10am - 4pm CDT | 11am - 5pm EDT
Location: Online
Kirtan Camp Intensive
Would you like to learn Kirtan on a Sikh String instrument? But feel you don’t have the time for a weekly commitment? Then this 5-day camp has been built for you. This dedicated camp will enable anyone to learn Kirtan from scratch. Where you are a complete beginner or want to expand your learning of Shabad Kirtan, this camp will provide a deep dive into learning your first Shabad in raag on the Dilruba Sikh instrument, all within 5 days.
Dates: 31st July - 4th August 2023
Time: 10am - 5pm UK
Location: Karamsar Centre, Ilford, London, IG11TP UK
Intensive Retreat - Germany
A full week of immersing yourself into the Naad of Sikh Music and enhancing your skills and abilities to take on lifes challenges with ease and self-confidence.
Date: August 2023
Time: 7 days residential
Location: Germany
Open to: Student-only event. Welcoming graduates and students across all our courses.
Featured Events
Tracks and albums are available at the suggested sites below
Dukh Bhanjan
An evening dedicated to non-stop 'Waheguru' Simran in Raag using Sikh string instruments to evoke and send out positive healing, peace and love back into our bodies and the world.
Duration: 6 hours
Location: London UK
FREE and open to all
SAVE THE DATE: 11th Nov 2023, 6pm - 12am
Hear some recordings from previous years:
Mere Mun Album
Mere Mun is the first of its kind album compiled together of Shabad Kirtan sung in each of the various different Raags from within the Sikh Scripture using Sikh string instruments.
Compiled to enhance the listener's inner dialogue and understanding to their emotional state so they may live as the true expression of themselves. The album plays a significant role in our Raj Academy online courses as an invaluable resource for emotional awareness and creating a balanced life. Discover and listen to the album here.
The album received a nomination from the Guinness World Records for being the first compilation to contain 59 tracks composed, produced, sung, and performed by one individual. Watch the first interview on the Mere Mun Album.
Past Events
Gurprasad Raag Kirtan Darbar
Feeling blessed within Sangat. Here’s how 6 hours of Raag Kirtan looked like by parents, graduates and students from Southall, Croydon, Woolwich and Ilford.
It was lovely to see everyone come together after our last November Dukh Bhanjan event. If you would love to be part of a wonderful supportive sangat, contact us on learning Kirtan.
Rather a listener over a learner?
You can help support making Raag Kirtan programs and Kirtan camps more available to Gurdwaras here. Your support is greatly appreciated by students.
Raag Kirtan Tour Canada
Mesmerising Raag Kirtan by Gurmat Sangeet Canada this past month for Sikh Heritage Month 2023.
@sikhheritagemonth celebrates 10 years since the month of April was officially declared Sikh Heritage Month in Canada.
Tour included:
Sunday 23rd April
Guru Nanak Darbar, Mud St. Stoney Creek, ON L8J 3C5
Saturday 22nd April
Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives
Brampton ON L6W 1Y1
Sunday 9th April
Baba Budha Ji Gurdwara, Hamilton, ON L8E 2Y5
Sunday 16th April
Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran, Lake Ave, Hamilton, ON L8E 3A2
Sunday 23rd April
Guru Nanak Darbar, Mud St. Stoney Creek, ON L8J 3C5
Dukh Bhanjan 2022
Dedicating time to singing the song of our soul. Thank you to all the wonderful teachers, students and supportive family members and Sangat who made Dukh Bhanjan 2022 a beautiful, rejuvenating space to be part of.
Thanks for @kirtanfi for the collaboration in producing high-res media content.
"In Sangat is where one flourishes."
Feedback
"Professor Surinder has changed the face of our future with his great contribution and hard work in the community to revive and maintain Sikh heritage, we wish him further success for all his upcoming projects."
- Dr. Garcha
"I had no idea that this type of music existed, nor that my forefathers were so musically gifted."
- Akashdeep
"Thank you so much for such a lovely evening! I feel so much lighter and brighter and can still hear the kirtan"
- Naila
"This was amazing! You really planted the seed in my head to learn the Dilruba! I don't know why but I'm drawn to it now after seeing you all yesterday."
- Simran
"I am more conscious of my emotions and how to gain another perspective on them. Sikh Music helps me understand better how to use my emotions rather than allowing them to take over my emotional state."
- Prabhnoor
"Sikh Music is a way for me to understand myself and connect to myself. It allows me to understand my potential and capacity better."
- Brahmbind
"Wish I could loop this and just listen for hours.... thank you!"
- Surinder C.
"How soothing and soul-touching shabad."
- Sarabjit S.
"I feel so peaceful the first time I heard this rag, it looks as if I was transported to a superior realm and I lost the notion of time and space. Music that connects you to the Divine..."
- Sarah
"Wow...Prof Sahib..what an experience! thanks a million (infinite). Bless your heart and soul, and of course your entire Jatha."
- K. Sandhu
"Have been listening to your collection of Raag-based shabad for all these years. It gives my mind the ultimate solace. Never been hooked better than this. God has shown through you the correct way of singing shabads well forgotten by the Sikh religion. This is Meditative bliss. You are blessed to sing Raag Adharit shabad by the Gurus. I must say you are very well forwarding the invaluable Sewa through Raj conservative project in Europe."
- Sunny
"You are truly blessed having listened to this vibrating musical melody throughout creation also in the present of lord house suchkhand hand of God upon your head will always be guiding you, may I take blessings from you and now to our lord vibrating musical instruments in infinite realities Lord bless you all."
- M. Pal
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