Song Keepers creates and facilitates communal gathering spaces centered on devotional and sacred music. Rooted in the understanding that song carries deep healing potential—for individuals and for the collective—Song Keepers responds to a growing longing for meaningful, embodied community in a culture often marked by isolation and fragmentation.
Born in Philadelphia, Song Keepers offers regular kirtan and medicine-music gatherings featuring local artists, as well as special events welcoming visiting musicians, teachers, and elders from around the country. While our roots are local, we hold a longer-term vision of these gatherings being offered in many communities, helping to restore connection through shared song.
Accessibility is a core value. Many gatherings are donation-based, and events with visiting artists may request a modest ticket price. In all cases, opportunities for volunteering or other forms of exchange are available, and no one is ever turned away due to lack of funds.
At its heart, Song Keepers is rooted in service. We seek to bring sacred music to individuals and communities who need it most. We offer this work in settings such as prisons, psychiatric facilities, nursing homes, and other underserved communities. Beyond this, Song Keepers offers healing music for people navigating life’s biggest transitions, with a particular focus on those nearing the end of life, as well as loved ones walking alongside illness, loss, and grief. This work is understood as relational and human, grounded in presence, listening, and care.
We approach this work with humility, curiosity, and a beginner’s mind. Song Keepers is not positioned as a hierarchy, but as a gathering place for music, inquiry, dialogue, and relationship. We seek to honor the roots of devotional traditions while engaging thoughtfully with what it means to live in this time of cultural convergence, listening carefully and asking deeper questions as we go.