Music Journey
As a child under the guidance of her parents (Kapil and Ranjit Sethi) and grandparents from India, Aditi began offering devotional music from the Sikh and Hindu traditions and Indian folk music to her community in Augusta, Georgia. More recently, she has been studying Indian devotional and classical music with her guru, Krishna Kant Shukla, who lives in Varnasi, India.
Her other music pursuits include playing music with her husband, Jay Brown, a musician and Hospice music therapist. (https://jaybrownmusic.com/.) They pulled together their eclectic backgrounds to create an original sound when they formed the band, Shantavaani in 2010. Continuing on as “Aditi and Jay,” they play contemplative music with roots. They offer Indian and American folk and spiritual music as well as original music. (https://www.facebook.com/contemplativemusicwithroots/&nbsp)
In addition, Aditi and Jay recently formed a group called "The Appalucians," with Angie Heimann and Cas Sochaki of "The Blushin' Roulettes." (https://theappalucians.com/.)The Appalucians play music from the mountains of Western North Carolina, featuring spirited songwriting, tight harmonies, and a lovely layered interplay between dobro, guitars, harp, bass, and banjo. The Appalucians first CD, "Bright Hills," was released in Spring 2018.
Aditi also plays with other local musicians in Asheville, NC including Scott Sheerin (https://www.healingmusicnow.com/), Jojo Silvermann, (http://musicasprayer.org/home), Greg Lathrop and Jason Hebal.
She works as a Hospice physician, is an end-of-life doula, and is executive director of Center for Conscious Living and Dying (https://www.facebook.com/ccld.community). She is also the mother of three precious children.
Events
Previous events
On Friday, March 15th, TEDx Asheville brings diverse, leading-edge voices with big ideas, inspiring conversations, and innovative solutions to Western North Carolina. The event is a day of multidisciplinary TEDx talks, demonstrations, and performances around the theme, “Meet the Moment.”
Your ticket includes a seat in the Diana Wortham Theater, 9 remarkable speakers, audience participation, lunch, networking, and a Meet the Speaker reception immediately following the event.
Meet the Moment is a personal, collective, and global invitation to explore how we grapple with, accompany, and innovate for positive change in these seemingly intractable challenges of our time.
Nina Rao and Aditi Sethi are both practitioners on the path of Bhakti Yoga where chanting of Sanskrit mantras is an expression of longing for the Divine in all hearts, and celebrating the One Love!
Nina Rao learned traditional chants from her grandfather in a village in south India when she nine years old. The chants quietly stayed with her until she rediscovered chanting with Krishna Das in New York in 1996. In 1998 she met her guru, Sri Siddhi Ma in the foothills of the Himalayas and spent time with her regularly for 19 years. For many years Nina has been Krishna Das’ business manager and accompanies him musically as well. She has released two albums Antarayaami and Anubhav and regularly leads kirtan, workshops, and retreats in her hometowns of Brooklyn & New Paltz, New York. She is also founder and chairwoman of non-profit Saving Wild Tigers which supports conservation of wild tigers and all species in their natural habitat in India. In addition, she hosts a podcast series on the Be Here Now Network exploring spirituality, practice, and conservation of wilderness and Nature. NinaRaoChant.com
As a child under the guidance of her parents and grandparents from India, Aditi began offering devotional music from the Sikh and Hindu traditions to her community. More recently, she studied Indian devotional and classical music with her teacher, Krishna Kant Shukla, who lives in Varnasi, India. She has been living in the Asheville area since 2008 and has offered kirtan to her local community with Jojo Silverman, Scott Sheerin, and others. As a hospice physician and end-of-life-doula, she values the power of mantra to focus the mind, open the heart and expand consciousness. aditimusic.com
Tickets are: $25 Advance. $30 at door
Join mantra artist and world musician David Newman for an ecstatic kirtan jam band experience with special guests Aditi and Jay.
Jay Brown, Jahidi and Scott Sheerin will join for an evening of devotional music. Event is by donation.
Our band, The Appalucians, www.theappalucians.com, will be a part of The Shift Music Festival and Visionaries Summit to help plant 1 miilion trees! The Summit is from Sept 17-19. We will perform Sunday, Sept 19th at 3 pm. Please join us as we launch a global call to action. The Summit is a FREE event with 100% of all donations going directly to TreeSisters: women seeding change. Link to website for tickets: https://portl.com/shiftmusicfestival/