Join us Thursday evening, June 26th, for community kirtan led by Matt Canale, Hillary Canale and special guest Radharani. Come 30 minutes early for a shared meal of kitchari and chai to warm our bellies before joining together in song and mantra!
Kirtan is a devotional singing practice from India and is practiced around the world. It involves chanting or singing mantras, sacred phrases, or bhajans in a call-and-response style. It is a beautiful way to learn how to open our hearts and connect to something much greater than ourselves.
Long-time Golden Drum members Matt and Hillary Canale will facilitate kirtan monthly in the space. Matt has been studying kirtan for the past decade in Hare Krishna temples in the city and upstate New York.
This month we are happy to welcome our special guest Radharani.
Suggested donation $20 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds).
Matthew Canale is a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, an elder of the Taino tradition and ceremonial leader, since 2008. Under the guidance of his teacher, Matthew has traveled around the world and studied the sacred traditions of humanity. He is a founding member of Golden Drum, a cultural community center in Brooklyn. He is also a founding member of Dream Seed, a sound healing ensemble that travels internationally sharing the gift of sacred music. He has studied and practiced kirtan and mantra for over a decade. Matthew is also a gifted artist, painter, designer, musician, drum maker and song-writer having released his first album entitled "Celebrate" in 2024. His mission is to use his gifts to aid in the evolution of human consciousness. www.mattcanale.com IG: @mattcanale
Hillary Love Canale is a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, an elder of the Taino tradition and ceremonial leader. She is devoted to the study of the sacred and its medicinal ways. She is trained in the tradition of ayurvedic healing and pancha karma. As a song carrier she is drawn to kirtan and mantra and healing music from around the world. Hillary is also a gifted singer, guitarist, song carrier, song writer, painter and beader. She loves to share her gifts to inspire and bring healing to others.
Radharani is a musician, writer, music producer, community and ritual leader, a student and teacher of spiritual philosophy.
She shares a comprehensive message of divine love through kirtan, meditation, ritual leadership, and philosophical discourse. She aims to help people understand bhakti (the devotional path) and how it relates to the philosophical streams of yoga, tantra, and western thought. Her broad angle on spiritual philosophy comes from two decades of service and study, including over four years in India, under the guidance of bhakti masters and eminent scholars.
Radharani has recorded and produced several original albums that have been streamed millions of times worldwide. She spent the last decade in the west engaged in study and ritual leadership in Judeo-Christian mystic paths, and in service to a progressive spiritual community as a Priestess, musician, and facilitator.
Radharani teaches by request of her spiritual teachers, senior members of the bhakti mission, and her spiritual family.