Madhava's Australian Tour - Update from Sydney

Madhava's "Yoga is Music" 2010 Tour of Australia is going well. We've done several kirtans at yoga schools and community centres, as well as two 24 hour kirtans.

This is my custom J-bass. The body is made from swamp ash, and it really sings. You can see my tuner on the headstock. It works on the vibration of the body, so I can tune the bass between each song just by turning the volume down and watching the backlit digital readout. Awesome - Krishnapada and I picked a couple up in Byron Bay for $25 a piece. Krishnapada is playing guitar on this tour.

These are our "whompers", made from a pair of Sabian 16" thin crash cymbals. It's an awesome package of sweetness and power in the capable hands of Prema Yogi, who is our cymbals and percussion man.

Here's a shot of Madhava with some of the band at our recent concert at Body Mind Life Yoga in Sydney.

This is a blurry shot of my playing bass. You can see Vrajadhama behind me. Vraj is the second mrdanga player, engineer, and cameraman for the tour. Janardana is handling first mrdanga.

We're doing a concert in the Sydney ISKCON temple in an hour. You can listen to the live stream here. Follow the link on that page to get to the stream.

We'll be in Melbourne next weekend. We're doing a concert at Prana House, at Urban Yoga, and a 12 hour kirtan at the Melbourne ISKCON temple.

These photos are courtesy of Varanayaka, temple president of ISKCON Sydney, who came to the kirtan at BML Yoga, and has been a big supporter of both Madhava's tour and promoting kirtan in Australia. The photos are downloaded from his facebook page.