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For a decade now, the San Francisco World Music Festival has developed projects with master artists and youth in the Bay Area and in several countries abroad as a catalyst for cultural understanding. We have staged works bringing musicians from many backgrounds and traditions together to explore the potential of this essential exchange. This year, as the centerpiece of the festival, and in celebration of our 10th Anniversary, we will continue this tradition, launching one of our most ambitious and inspiring projects yet, an International Youth Music Initiative.
Festival 2009 Schedule
11/13 FILM NIGHT
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Film Screening Room
11/15 SONGS OF KYRGYZSTAN
Silk Road House
11/16 ASSEMBLY PROGRAM
Alice Fong Yu Alternative School
11/19 ASSEMBLY PROGRAM
KZV Armenian School
11/19 TABLAS AND MORE TABLAS
The Sangati Center
11/22 INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MUSIC INITIATIVE
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
This year's commissioned work was the International Youth Music Initiative, which started last year after receiving a generous grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation, and since has traveled across the globe to unite the youth of the world through music. This initiative brought together youth and master musicians from all over the Bay Area, combining a diverse range of our world’s musical traditions and cultures, from the ragas of North India to the Silk Bamboo music of China.
In addition to investing in the youth of the Bay Area, the initiative has also traveled to the mountains of Nepal, rural Taiwan, and the mountains of Kyrgyzstan to pass on to underprivileged youth their traditional music. Within the next couple years, students from these regions will join the group performing in the Bay Area.
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