Tico Time’s Sangha Festival
Schedule
Join Katie and her band for an intimate set of heart-opening mantra-folk: yogic chants blended with emotionally crafted songs reminiscent of Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette. Designed to calm the chaos inside and out, Katie’s newest songs are about healing, letting go, and transcending. The band incorporates acoustic and electric guitars, keyboard, bass, drum kit, and female+male harmonies including Katie’s own vocal looping.
Bio:
Katie Wise & Bhakti Explosion is a kirtan band fusing heart-opening mantra with contemporary folk rock. Since forming in 2014, the band has appeared at some of the biggest international yoga and transformational festivals such as Bhakti Fest (CA), Rocky Mountain Folks Fest (CO), Hanuman Festival (CO), Holistic Manchester (UK), Arise (CO), Festival of Colors USA (UT), Mammoth Yoga Festival (CA), Shakti Fest (CA), Bhakti Love Reunion (CA), Lovelight (MD), Relaxspansion (OR), and Stonehenge Music Festival (UK). Bhakti Explosion has toured and recorded with David Newman, has been the backing band for Donna DeLory, Girish, Brenda McMorrow, Daphne Tse, and David Newman, and has shared the stage with Wah, Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band, Guru Ganesha Singh, Deva Premal and Miten, and many others. Katie regularly leads or co-leads yoga and spiritual retreats in the US, India, and Mexico, alongside teachers like Kirsten Warner, R.R. Shakti, Chameli Arbaugh (Awakening Women Institute), and Saul David Raye. Australian Yoga Life writes “Wise’s soulful, earth voice embodies vulnerability in a way that turns emotion into art.”