Join us every Friday night at DYB for Kirtan: call and response chanting. Each week is led by a special guest kirtan leader. "The words of these chants are called the divine names and they come from a place that's deeper than our hearts and our thoughts, deeper than the mind. And so as we sing them they turn us towards ourselves, into ourselves. They bring us in, and as we offer ourselves into the experience, the experience changes us." - Krishna Das

Four Corners Chant | September 3rd, 8 - 9:30pm | Interpretations of international sacred song uttered in the ancient form of call and response chanting. Come sing with us, dance with us or just be with us in the infinite possibilities of the present moment. Led by Bret Cohen on vocals and percussion with Donna Wang on harmonium. To listen to music, click here.

Shyama Chapin | September 10th, 8 - 9:30pm | Shyama started singing before she could talk. After many years as a performing songwriter in New England and California, she loves most of all to chant the Divine Names—in big halls, in intimate gatherings, in her guru’s beautiful temples in Northern India—and feels lucky and blessed to be able to center her days around this ancient, profound, deeply human practice.

Devadas | September 17th, 8 - 9:30pm | Devadas is a devotee of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, and has been practicing the sadhana of bhajan, devotional singing, for more than a dozen years. He has led kirtans in temples and yoga centers all over the east coast and in India, and has recorded and performed with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Wah and Krishna Das among others. To hear his music click here.

Celestial Music Conert with Laraaji Nadabrahmanada| September 24th, 8 - 10pm | $15 Suggested Donation | Join us for this very special concert of celestial tone, tonality, and rhythm. Transmission with Zithers, Voice, Mbira and Persussion. Hailed as one of the forefathers of both ambient electronic and new age music, Laraaji is best known for his 1980 collaboration with Brian Eno, "Ambient 3: Day of Radiance". In the seventies, Laraaji began his lifelong study of Eastern Mysticism, was initiated as a swami, and merged music with spiritual practice. Following an intuition, hebought a zither from a local pawn shop, converted it to an electronic instrument, and, while busking in Washington Square Park, Laraaji was discovered by Brian Eno who offered to produce him on the spot. For more information, or to hear Laraaji's music, click here.