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New Album is Here!

I’m Just an Average Cosmic Being! is the title of my latest album. It is available in digital and CD versions .It is now available with the digital version at Bandcamp.com or if you would like a CD version you can have it sent today by visiting our store here.

Here is a brief description of the album: “Dada Veda’s I’m Just an Average Cosmic Being! is refreshing in its straightforward optimism. The album combines homespun songs of love and care with social commentary. Dada Veda has spent the past several decades as a monk-social worker in the Ananda Marga meditation tradition taught by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, and this comes across in his music. Dada’s music also reflects his love of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and his coming of age in the 1960’s counterculture in New York City. An album full of meaning, Being is a balm for the human journey.”

Also, be sure to see the new collaborative video of We Don’t Nee No Corporations, Do We? which is one of the tracks on this album.  The video was made with singer Kris Pride and videographer Kari Helm, both from Bay City, Michigan.

We Don’t Need No Corporations: New Single Release

Corporations cover2I have just released a new song entitled “We Don’t Need No Corporations, Do We?” It is available at all digital platforms for streaming and download. I address the theme of economic democracy in a socially conscious song.  The lyrics are new, but the tune is based on an old gospel song “This Train” which was also the base of Woody Guthrie’s song “This Train is Bound for Glory.” Have a listen at Bandcamp.com

I sing and play the rhythm guitar on this track. Backing vocals were done by Kris Pride, of Bay City, Michigan, and the lead guitar solo was added by Kevin Farge, currently living in Costa Rica.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a daily live stream!

Due to the pandemic and other factors as well,  I am not touring and doing live music performances.  However a new opportunity has opened up and I am streaming a live show of talk and music Monday through Saturday on https://www.sessionslive.com/DadaVeda596 . In this show I perform folk, rock, pop and traditional songs as well as my original.  I also talk about the history and back stories surrounding the songs that I write and about the songs that I cover.   This is also mixed in with the chat of the listeners and makes for a lot of fun (I am enjoying it at least).  I hope you will tune in sometime,

Also, the best way to take part in these live shows is to download the Session Live app for your phone, then you can set up an account and join the chat and also have easy access to free music 24/7.

I’m on a “Mission from God”

Before I tell you what the mission from God is all about, I have to apologize for not updating this blog section very often.  I tend to post my latest doings on Facebook, usually at my personal profile Dada Vedaprajinananda (you can befriend me or follow me to keep up with everything) and sometimes on my music page www.facebook.com/dadavedamusic 

Now, the Mission from God stuff..  A year ago I was in India and one of the Ananda Marga nuns was describing her program to build a hospital in Kolkata that will offer medical treatment to the “poorest of the poorest.”  The nun is an old friend, Didi Ananda Prajina.  She has been working on this project since the early 1990s and was able to purchase choice land and start construction of the hospital. It has been a long struggle but she has now been able to open an outpatient clinic on the first floor of the building which is still in construction. Continue reading

New Review of “Trickle on Down” Appears Online

The online music site Jamsphere.com did a review of my CD.  Here it is:

Dada Veda: “Trickle On Down” – music that belongs to the world!

Originally from New York, Dada Veda is a meditation and yoga teacher, as well as a singer-songwriter. Although Dada has been playing the guitar and singing for the past 40 years, it was only in the past ten years that he tried his hand at composing his own songs, and completing four albums. Here Dada explains the concept of his fourth album “Trickle On Down” (released in 2016), in the liner notes, “My main job in life is teaching meditation and yoga, but my musical activities are an important extension of this work.” He adds, “In these short songs I have tried to infuse the eternal truths that are at the core of who we are as individuals and as a society.”

There is no question in my mind about the rating of this album if I could go above 5 stars I would. Each track I find takes you someplace you want to go, may have been or really should be in your life. Dada Veda is one of the rare artists that seem to be able to really paint a picture in your mind. Continue reading

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