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Paloma Devi on vocals, Spirit Voyage recording artist/ kundalini yoga teacher Sat Kartar Singh on acoustic guitar, and kundalini bass guitar magician Gurusangat Singh (recording artist and producer of the popular Miracle Mantra Series), and world music multi-percussionist Tripp Dudley on drum kit, tabla, and cajon.

“This is a project that I’ve had in my heart for many years,” says GuruGanesha. “The idea behind the GuruGanesha Band is to bring to the world music scene a group that can musically hold its own with the great guitar bands of all time, but instead of conventional lyrics, singing mantras and divine poetry to transport audiences to a profoundly beautiful and transcendent place. All of the spiritual and musical work I’ve done for the past 39 years has been preparing me for this.” The GuruGanesha Band is the latest project from the mind, heart and guitar of world devotional music pioneer GuruGanesha Singh. Renowned for his GuruGanesha describes the GGB sound as “a unique blend of kirtan, raga, work with sublime vocalists like Snatam Kaur, Nirinjan Kaur and Tina Malia, rock, and deeply meditative folk music. I will primarily be playing electric GuruGanesha steps into the limelight with his latest musical venture, a multi- guitar and I’ve hand-picked the musicians not only for their musical virtuosity talented ensemble culled from the A-list of players and singers on today’s but also for their ability to channel the spiritual energy that the band will be rapidly-expanding kirtan/chant/yoga music scene. serving. The vocals will be a group effort with plenty of rich two and three part harmonies though Paloma Devi will regularly step out and blow people away Long noted for the effortless grace and mellifluous lyricism of his acoustic with her amazing vocal improvisations. The audience will be encouraged to guitar work, GuruGanesha has turned his talents to his first love, the fully participate, whether it be singing along, dancing or just meditating deeply electric guitar, to ignite the incandescent sound of the GuruGanesha Band. on the music.” With shimmering, glassy tonalities and evocative textures, he takes the vast sonic potential of modern guitar electronics to a new and blissful Come share a magical evening of music, stories, joy and inspiration with place. Accompanying him on this musical journey are master cellist/multi- GuruGanesha and his incomparable band. instrumentalist Hans Christian (RASA, Krishna Das, Robbie Robertson, Harry Manx, Jai Uttal and Donna De Lory), beguiling and unforgettable newcomer The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

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GuruGanesha The GuruGanesha Band is just one of many high points in a career that has spanned several decades, bringing World devotional music pioneer, Spirit Voyage Records joy and inspiration to music lovers all around the world. founder, distinctive guitar stylist, songwriter, singer, GuruGanesha’s shimmering, incandescent guitar work and producer, entrepreneur, accomplished yogi and lifelong creative vision were instrumental in launching the career of spiritual practitioner, GuruGanesha is a man of many Snatam Kaur, with whom he has recorded and performed talents. His most recent project is the GuruGanesha Band, extensively. His rich career path has also embraced an adventurous ensemble of mantra music all-stars born of collaborations with Guru Singh, Seal, Tina Malia, Nirinjan GuruGanesha’s longstanding wish to combine the profound Kaur, Thomas Barquee and Jai-Jagdeesh. The deep catalog spirituality of mantra music with the visceral excitement of of GuruGanesha’s solo recordings includes Grateful Ganesh, a great guitar-driven band. The GuruGanesha Band’s debut Pure Ganesh, Joy is Now, and Kundalini Surjhee. album A Thousand Suns takes world devotional music to GuruGanesha is one of those rare individuals who combine visionary new realms of musical innovation with an inspiring the heart and soul of an artist with the clear, quick mind of a fusion of kirtan, rock, raga, folk, blues and Latin sounds that businessman and the easygoing warmth of a born has left audiences from coast to coast dripping with bliss and raconteur. His immense contribution to the yoga ecstatic joy. and conscious music movement is one of the genre’s most radiant jewels. The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

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Paloma Devi seasoned kirtan vets like Hans Christian and GuruGanesha himself. But even in this distinguished company, her talent Singer, musician, scholar, dancer and yogini, Paloma Devi’s shines through brilliantly, while also bringing a wonderfully exquisite voice is an integral part of the GuruGanesha Band. balancing feminine energy to the GuruGanesha Band. Whether singing lead, harmony or duets with bandleader “Paloma is going to be one of the next superstars of mantra GuruGanesha Singh, her performances are always steeped music,” an enthusiastic GuruGanesha predicts. “When she in a profound sense of devotion and connection with the sings, she goes deeply into Spirit, and she takes the rest of us Divine. She brings a richly eclectic musical background to with her.” Paloma’s creative journey began when she started the GGB, not to mention the poise, discipline, generosity singing in her church choir as a child in Miami. “You know, and gentle strength of a lifelong spiritual pilgrim. I always had a connection with singing, and singing for And she steps into a rather deep stream in joining forces God,” she says. “I always had very meditative experiences in with the GGB. GuruGanesha is known for fostering, church, especially when I was singing. Every prayer to me cultivating and enabling the careers of major mantra was a meditation. vocalists such as Snatam Kaur, Mirabai Ceiba, Tina Malia, See more on the GuruGanesha Band website. Nirinjan Kaur and others. A relative newcomer to the world devotional scene, Paloma will be following in these auspicious footsteps, while also sharing the stage with The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

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Hans Christian performance and recording opportunities. Recent noteworthy studio collaborations include a double CD Hans Christian’s versatility as performer, recording artist, with Andrew Harvey (Rumi Symphony/Allemande Music, and producer for over 25 years has created a legacy of 2011) and award winning Canadian artist Harry Manx and recordings that have touched people’s hearts (You are the Music of my Silence/Allemande Music, 2012). around the world. Hans also tours nationwide as a solo artist, offering His unmistakable playing moves the listener with a passionate concerts on cello, assorted ethnic string haunting beauty, and his use of live looping and various instruments, and live looping. His melodic contributions ethnic string instruments expresses a universal musical as a string player add a unique flavor to the sound of the language that transcends boundaries, cultures, and GuruGanesha Band. generations.

As a co-founder of the reknowned World Music group RASA he has developed a devoted fan base with his virtuosic creativity, and his affiliation with Wisdom University as artist-in-residence has garnered him rare access to the Cathedral in Chartres, France for repeated The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

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Sat Kartar Singh

Sat Kartar and GuruGanesha have been singing and playing own yoga classes, Sat Kartar integrates the science of Naad guitar together for over 20 years. Fast friends from the (Sacred Sound Current), creating a profoundly healing and moment they were introduced, the two have lived near each transformative experience. His classes are beloved by many. other in the Washington DC area for almost 25 years, and, throughout that time, have enjoyed being music partners Bandmates describe Sat Kartar as “wise”, “peaceful”, and, for many hometown events. Their families will tell you this most hilariously, “Gandalf-ish”. They’ll also tell you how current creative partnership was inevitable; and so it was. generous he is with his healing talents as a practitioner of Yogic Neuromuscular therapy while the group is out on An early student of renowned spiritual master Yogi Bhajan, the road. And band leader GuruGanesha is grateful to be Sat Kartar began teaching Kundalini yoga in 1975. During traveling with his buddy of so many years, which is clearly the formative years of the American yoga movement, he evident to audiences everywhere; the onstage rapport was intimately involved in the development of the 3HO between the two is a highlight of any evening. Kundalini instruction program. When not on tour with The GuruGanesha Band, he is immersed in several Teacher “I’m an Accidental Rock Star” says Sat Kartar with Training programs in the DC Metro area, serving the next a chuckle. “It’s all so unexpected, but I’m really generation of aspiring Kundalini Yoga teachers. Into his enjoying it. I feel truly blessed to be a member of The GuruGanesha Band”. The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

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Gurusangat Singh

Gurusangat Singh has been singing, studying, writing and Designed specifically for meditation, and tested in the performing music for over 30 years. He grew up in New classroom, his greatest hits include The Miracle Mantra of Orleans, surrounded by that city’s rich musical heritage. Guru Ram Das, Isht Sodhana Manta Kriya, Hummee Hum There he studied with renowned jazz patriarch Ellis Brahm Hum, and Wahe Guru for Sodarshan Chakra Kriya. Marsallis, who helped shape his approach to jazz and to music in general. Since joining the GuruGanesha Band, Gurusangat has put down his six-string guitar, and stepped fully into the role When Gurusangat discovered the teachings of Kundalini of bassman. He delves deep into the hypnotic rhythmic Yoga, he was able to merge his two great loves: music and interplay that holds a band together. He stands at the meditation. Since then he has recorded and produced the bottom, and lifts everyone up. five CDs comprising the popular “Miracle Mantra Series”, featuring himself and Dr. Gurucharan Singh Khalsa. He is known for creating lush soundscapes that draw you effortlessly into a meditative state. The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

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Tripp Dudley During his first few years in New York, Tripp worked steadily as a percussionist-for-hire, meeting and Tripp Dudley was born in Montgomery, Alabama. At the collaborating with musicians from many different genres - age of 10 he picked up a guitar, and not long after that he hip hop, funk, jazz, singer/songwriter, rock ‘n roll, Indian began playing drums in his Jr. high school band. After 2 classical, many different world-fusion groups and even the years of classical percussion, he started playing drumset. occasional off-Broadway musical. When not at a gig, Tripp At 20 Tripp began attending Berklee College of Music, practiced tabla for hours a day, deepening his connection specializing in drumset and percussion. He quickly started to the intricacies of Indian percussion. In 2009 he began studying Indian rhythmic systems on frame drums and studying with tabla maestro Pandit Samir Chatterjee. tabla, beginning a very big part of his future path through Tripp currently resides in New York, and is still a disciple music. He graduated in 2005 and returned to Alabama, of Pandit Samir Chatterjee. Some of the artists that Tripp where he played a lot of Blues and Funk, toured with the has shared the stage with are: Jai-Jagdeesh, Bolé, Beth band Highly Kind, taught guitar and drumset, and worked Nielsen Chapman, Gurunam Singh, Copal, Letha, Mirabai as a studio engineer. In early 2007 he moved to New York Ceiba, Highly Kind, Blues Old Stand, The Mast, City. Tablaphilia, and PremaBhumi to name a few. He also has his own Afro-Indian fusion project called Kaleidhaphonic. The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

SUPERSTARS OF DEVOTIONAL MUSIC ALIGN FOR As for the GuruGanesha Band, their inaugural tour in 2012 inspired influential 26 CONCERT NORTH AMERICAN TOUR Bhakti Beat scribe Brenda Patione to declare them “the mantra music band of the year.” Their forthcoming debut album A Thousand Suns takes world Deva Premal & Miten and the GuruGanesha Band devotional music to visionary new realms of musical innovation with an Come Together for this Year’s Bhakti Blockbuster Tour inspired fusion of kirtan, rock, raga, folk, blues and Latin sounds that has left audiences from coast to coast dripping with bliss and ecstatic joy. The superstars of mantra music are aligning this year, as Deva Premal and GuruGanesha’s incandescent guitar playing and deeply grounded vocals twine Miten join forces with the GuruGanesha Band for the 26 Concert MantraFest in yin/yang heartplay with the beguiling voice of Paloma Devi, a gifted artist Tour, commencing on September 10 in Chicago. Presented by Reed’s and devoted yogini destined to become mantra music’s next great avatar. And, healthy new Culture Club Kombucha beverages and produced by Bright manifesting a thousand musical colors and infectious earthbeat grooves for Star Live Events, the tour is a truly historic event, bringing together two the GuruGanesha Band are renowned multi-instrumentalist Hans Christian visionary musical ensembles led by three of the chief architects of the sacred (saranghi, nyckelharpa, sitara, cello), guitarist Sat Kartar Singh, bassist chant phenomenon that has energized the yoga and meditation alternative Gurusangat Singh and multi-percussionist Tripp Dudley. movement in recent years—Deva Premal, Miten and GuruGanesha. With two of the best and most-beloved ensembles in mantra music sharing Both acts were there at the dawn of the conscious music explosion. Deva and the same stage, MantraFest is a true gathering of the tribes, providing many Miten’s inspirational 1998 recording of the Gayatri Mantra became one of the magical evenings of rapturous sacred chant. yoga scene’s first great anthems. And GuruGanesha launched Spirit Voyage records in 2000, fostering the music and divinely inspired voice of Snatam “The direct, daily experience that Deva and I have is that mantras support Kaur as guitarist, supporting vocalist, and manager. us through every challenge,” says Miten. “Our mission is to share this powerful healing tool with the world. And we know that this is a mission we share with The music of these genre-defining artists continues to evolve in beautiful GuruGanesha. His music has always been remarkable for a depth of spiritual waves of ever-expanding consciousness. A Deeper Light, the new album by connection that has a real sparkle and twinkle.” Deva Premal and Miten, is a masterpiece of organic trance grooves and blissful atmospheres gracefully buoying the glorious voice of mantra music’s angel-in- “Deva, Miten and I have been close friends for many years,” adds chief. Their group currently includes mantra music’s own Krishna incarnation, GuruGanesha. “They’re truly heavenly beings who walk the talk. the Nepalese bansuri flute maestro, Manose, and Dutch keyboard wizard When I was touring with Snatam Kaur in the early days, she and Maneesh de Moor creating a majestic, meditative and multi-hued musical I both considered Deva and Miten as mentors. Their magnificent experience. < continue on next page > The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

music radiates a divine love that opens every heart and leaves not a dry eye in MantraFest Fall 2013 Tour Schedule the house. Add in the musical magic of our supporting players and you get a September 10th – Skokie, IL presentation that is as polished and professional as anything the mainstream September 12th – Toronto, ON music world has to offer.” September 14th – Montreal, QC Reed’s Inc. CEO Chris Reed declares: “I’ve been a big fan of Deva Premal & September 15th – Ottawa, ON Miten for a long time, ever since I first heard their wonderful recording of ‘Om September 18th – Medford, MA Mani Padme Hum.’ I’m a longtime admirer of GuruGanesha as well. For me, September 19th – Bridgeport, CT he’s the Jerry Garcia of kirtan music. All of us here at Reed’s are so proud of our September 21st – New York City, NY new Culture Club Kombucha. And it just seems fitting to bring it together with September 22nd – Philadelphia, PA artists of Deva, Miten and GuruGanesha’s caliber for a high vibration concert September 24th – Washington, DC tour like MantraFest 2013.” September 28th – Miami, FL September 29th – Miami, FL For more on MantraFest, visit BrightStar Live Events October 1st – Asheville, NC October 4th – Houston, TX October 5th – Dallas, TX October 13th – Boulder, CO October 17th – Calgary, AB October 18th – Edmonton, AB October 23rd – Victoria, BC October 24th – Vancouver, BC October 26th – Seattle, WA October 27th – Portland, OR October 29th – Oakland, CA October 30th – Santa Cruz, CA November 1st – Los Angeles, CA November 3rd – Escondido, CA November 5th – Mesa, AZ The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

Blessed with a profound sense of spiritual devotion and a high level of artistry, it is the very oceanlike nectar of infinite bliss rendered audible—an immensely satisfying and inspiring musical experience.

Helmed by mantra music patriarch, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter GuruGanesha, A Thousand Suns features the debut of the supremely gifted vocalist Paloma Devi, along with a dazzlingly accomplished ensemble of musicians including bowed-string wizard Hans Christian and keyboard/ production polymath Thomas Barquee. What they’ve forged together is nothing short of breathtaking.

Coming from a long and successful run with singer Snatam Kaur and a much-beloved string of solo , GuruGanesha is no stranger to the mantra idiom. But A Thousand Suns may well be his finest hour, a crowning achievement. In recent years, he has expanded his instrumental palette to include electric as well as acoustic guitars, an artistic growth spurt that has placed a rich, sun-dappled array of evocative tones at his command. His touch on his chosen instruments is steeped in understated assurance and gentle expansiveness.

But for all its moments of solo guitar grandeur, A Thousand Suns is, above Debut album from the GuruGanesha Band with Paloma all, an ensemble effort. Instrumentally, GuruGanesha is well matched by Devi Shines Brighter than A Thousand Suns the polychrome genius of Hans Christian, whose masterfully handled cello, Every once in a while an album comes along that elevates the world devotional saranghi, nyckelharpa, sitara and other stringed instruments alternate and music genre to new heights—propelling sacred mantras beyond the yoga intertwine with GuruGanesha’s guitar leads in gloriously crafted antiphony studio and onto the international stage, where kirtan can proudly take its and harmony. Vocally as well, the album is solidly grounded in the place alongside the finest pop, jazz or classical music. A Thousand Suns by give-and-take heartplay of call-and-response kirtan chanting, setting the GuruGanesha Band with newcomer Paloma Devi is just such an album. GuruGanesha’s baritone in yin yang contrapoise to the beguiling voice of Paloma Devi. < continue on next page > The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

This young woman is clearly poised to become the next superstar of mantra “Mayray Meet Gurudev” gracefully balances on artfully wrought lattices of music, ready to take her place alongside the genre’s other great divas. She is filigreed guitar work, keening saranghi and sparkling . The composition’s possessed of a voice that drips with the sweet perfume of devotion—a voice compelling refrain packs the heady upward thrust of the titular thousand solar that speaks directly to the heart in a language so intimate and tender it’s as if orbs. And the closing track, the raga-based “Mayra Piara” wafts us homeward your own soul is singing to you. Her crystalline purity of tone is embossed with a hypnotic mantra set to a simple, almost folkloric melody and set amidst with glints of contemporary r&b, salsa and pop. This is a voice for the ages, but fugue-like instrumental adornments that draw us ever deeper into the essence also a voice for right now—multicultural, compassionately engaged, a balm of these sacred syllables. for our troubled times. It quivers like the softly beating breast of a heavenward The message of A Thousand Suns is perhaps best encapsulated in the title ascendant dove. It shimmers like the finest, gossamer cloth-of-gold. It leaves track’s simple, repeated refrain: “Open your heart.” Confronted with such the listener defenseless and enraptured. musical majesty, how could we do otherwise? “Can you feel it?” asks the next The album’s six lavishly-produced tracks offer a generous range of musical line. How could we possibly not? styles, reflecting the artists’ diverse gifts and sensibilities. The title track, co- written by GuruGanesha and Paloma, is a meditative ballad with gospel/folk overtones—voices, guitar and cello calling to one another across vast oceans of —Alan di Perna devotion. “Sri Ram” unfolds with the courtly exoticism of a suite by Ravel or Rimsky-Korsakov, transporting the listener via magic carpet to a starlit night amongst the Gopis. Up until now, GuruGanesha has mainly worked with texts from Sikh tradition, so it’s a delight to hear him lend his talents to one of the quintessential Hindu mantras.

The jaunty, retro-pop of “Thy Will Be Done,” gets down into GuruGanesha’s rock and roll roots. His reverb-drenched leads and Paloma’s wailing vocal descants sound like they could have come right off Haight Street, circa 1967, touching on the yoga movement’s psychedelic roots. Meanwhile, Paloma’s Cuban heart shines through radiantly on the Latin-inflected “Waho Waho Gobind Singh” with its supple rhythmic sway, heartfelt vocal in Español and Guajarati, Euro-cafe fiddle and Santana-esque six-string fire. The Band Biographies The Tour New Album Discography Website

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