Cultures in Harmony Blog

Our founder’s birthday

Mexico City, November 14, 2024—Today is the birthday of our founder, William Harvey, and all he wants is for YOU to donate to Cultures in Harmony for our 20th anniversary, coming up in 2025! We are raising $20,000 to present projects in 10 countries on 5 continents, and for the rest of this year, I’ll […]

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Zimbabwe 2006

Mexico City, November 13, 2024—In just one day, we have raised $1,000 towards our goal of raising $20,000 to celebrate our 20th anniversary! Join our day 1 donors and help us bring people together through music throughout 2025! Since we shared memories from 2005 yesterday, today, let’s go forward a year… Memory Lane: Zimbabwe 2006 […]

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Cultures in Harmony is turning 20!

Mexico City, November 12, 2024—In 2025, Cultures in Harmony will celebrate our 20th anniversary with projects bringing people together through music in 10 countries on 5 continents: Afghanistan, Belize, Congo, Ecuador, Mexico, the Netherlands, Philippines, Tunisia, USA, and Zimbabwe! In a time of increased global division, we promote unity, solidarity, and collaboration. More than ever, […]

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Connecting musicians with opportunity, from Mexico to Afghanistan

This summer, Cultures in Harmony is undertaking two projects, spanning from where the notes of a violin echo off the mountains of northern Mexico…to the silence of the mountains of Kabul, Afghanistan, where the music sounds no more. One week from today, Cultures in Harmony will undertake its fifth visit to the Sierra Tarahumara mountains […]

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EU Africa Lecture

In this blog post, CiH Founder William Harvey shares his experience lecturing about Africa at the German Parliament in Berlin last Friday, June 14, 2024.

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Who remembers Afghan musicians?

While the world’s attention flits from one conflict zone to the next, the situation for Afghan musicians remains perilous since the return of the violently anti-music Taliban in August 2021.  Once again, it is illegal in Afghanistan to play, study, or listen to music. Women cannot leave the homes or hold jobs. Girls cannot go […]

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Indigenous cultural exchange

Cultures in Harmony underwrote the travel from the USA to Mexico of Sulustu Moses of the Spokane tribe. While in the state of Oaxaca, he sang “Chaconne on Ch’anwi,” a composition by CiH Founder William Harvey based on a traditional hymn of the Spokane, with the Symphony Orchestra of Oaxaca in the Teatro Macedonio Alcalá […]

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Active from A to Z

Mexico City, October 28, 2023: We are active from A to Z, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe! Yesterday, our music festival (co-presented with Revival Arts Trust Zimbabwe) in Zimbabwe was a big success. And from Afghanistan to Germany, we are delighted to share the following news: The German violinist and supporter of Cultures in Harmony Ulla […]

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Three projects in fall 2023!

Cultures in Harmony is announcing three exciting projects for fall 2023! In October, we will help the Revival Arts Trust Zimbabwe present another edition of the Pfumvudza Community Arts Festival in Marondera, Zimbabwe. We helped launch this festival in 2015. As part of our participation, the American cellist Amy Macy will perform with Zimbabwean musicians. […]

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Tunisia 2023 pictures available

You can now see pictures from this year’s Tunisia project in two places: our Flickr account and our brand-new Cultures in Harmony Instagram account! Don’t forget to donate to ensure these beautiful connections continue.

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