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More than 600 fans of Deva Premal and Miten await the start of the performance at the Lakewood Theater with their special guest, Manose.
More than 600 fans and devotees of yoga and Eastern chant music attended a special concert put on by Deva Premal and Miten, two of the pre-eminent musicians of the genre, Sept. 17 at Lakewood Theater.
Earth Rhythms, a nonprofit group born of the volunteers who put together the annual Winter SolstiCelebration, promoted the show and brought the duo, along with special guest Manose, to Lakewood. According to Amy Martin, concert promoter, East Dallas was the only place for the show in the city.
Martin, who hoped to make a regular event of the alternative form of musical concert, deemed the evening a success and already has started plans for the next show.
Deva Premal
Manose
Miten
Deva Premal and Miten, with special guest Manose, performed kirtan call-and-response chanting from India. By repeating simple mantras over and over, faster and faster, the kirtan is an easy way for people to experience some freedom from the daily chatter of the mind.
Deva Premal and Miten
Manose and Miten
Rodney J. Steman was one of the producers of the performance. Steman is also the vice president and director of operations for Earth Rhythms.
Waiting in line is McKinney resident Denise Gulick and her friend Judy Carder prior to the start of the kirtan. Carder drove in from Oklahoma City.
Lake Highlands resident Angela Haack visits with David Sunshine prior to the concert. Sunshine, a Lakewood resident and instructor-owner of the Dallas Yoga Center, was one of the many sponsors present for the evening's event.
Sound engineer Russel Green
Producers Rodney J. Steman and Amy Martin
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Professor O'Wyld said at 12:04 p.m. on October 18, 2008, 12:04 p.m.
This concert was so memorable! As a measure of how good it was, I had to go home and learn to sing and play several of the mantras/songs they sang. It was wonderful to hear these songs arise out of silence and and go back into the silence from which they came.
~professor o'wyld