Gloucester Daily Times
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Published: December 8, 2006   
By Around Cape Ann
Gail McCarthy

CD release event

A celebration for the release of a new CD "Kirtana" will take place tomorrow from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Yoga for Health at 124 Main St. in Gloucester. The event is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the seARTS Arts-Biz program with funding from the Massachusetts Cultural.

Michael O'Leary, a Cape Ann singer, sound healer and chant leader, will host the celebration for the release by the group Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song, a chant ensemble of which he is a member. O'Leary will be joined by musician Ben Sheppard for the evening of chant and dance.

O'Leary joined the group for this CD, recorded in May 2005. He met Gass at a chanting workshop a couple of years earlier and was asked to join the ensembled for its next recording.

O'Leary noted that in more than 20 years as pioneers of the contemporary chant genre, Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song have recorded 17 albums, including chants like "Om Namaha Shivaya." He described "Kirtana" as resonating with devotional Sanskrit chants that elevate the listener. For more, call O'Leary at 978-283-0495 or miceal@verizon.net.

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