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Top-selling chant artist Krishna Das has added four additional stops to his June tour in the cities of Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago and Minneapolis. For the full list of new dates, see below. 

Das has been called the “Chant Master of American Yoga” by The New York Times and “Pavarotti of Kirtan” by Yoga Journal and is notable for making yoga and chant music more accessible to Western listeners. His music layers traditional kirtan – chanting of the divine names – over popular arrangements and songs. 

Watch Krishna Das perform live at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA

“If there’s such a thing as a rock ‘n roll star presiding over the music category of kirtan — the 500-year-old tradition of chanting Indian mantras — the honor belongs to Krishna Das.” (Flavor Pill)

Krishna Das, one of the best-selling chant artists of all time, returns to the road on June 6, 2011 in Seattle, WA following his hugely successful, sold out tour last spring with Deva Premal, which the New York Post called “some enchanted evening….”

Krishna Das has been called the “Chant Master of American Yoga” by The New York Times and “Pavarotti of Kirtan” by Yoga Journal and is notable for making yoga and chant music more accessible to Western listeners. His music layers traditional kirtan – chanting of the divine names – over popular arrangements and songs. This summer’s tour will include Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver as well as Harmony Festival and Wanderlust Festival, with more dates to be announced soon.

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Called the “Chant Master of American Yoga” by the New York Times, Krishna Das will release Heart As Wide As The World, his first studio album in ten years, March 2, 2010. The album is a collaboration with David Nichtern (“Midnight at the Oasis”) who produced and played guitar. It features musicians like Jerry Marotta (Hall & Oates, Peter Gabriel) on drums, percussion and world musicians Steve Gorn on bansuri flute and Benjy Wertheimer on esraj, amongst an array of other instruments.

Krishna Das will also be touring in spring 2010 with Deva Premal & Miten, dubbed “The Johnny and June Carter Cash of chant” by Yoga Journal . Together they are creating an extraordinary series of concerts across the US, highlighting the newfound popularity of kirtan and mantra chanting. These musicians, who have enjoyed a worldwide grass-roots success the past decade, are each celebrating the release of new albums with their first co-headlined tour. (tour dates below)