We are pleased to share these videos from the final concert of the 2023 edition of our collaboration with Atlas Music Academy in Tunisia! Check them out, then donate to keep connecting across cultural barriers through music.
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Jeanel LeBlanc
Thank you, my dear donors and friends, for helping us help young Tunisian musicians realize their dreams! I spoke with Jeanel LeBlanc, music producer and vocalist. You can also check out interviews with some of the other teachers: John Willis and Hanan Aseelah Davis. They are teaching in Beni M’tir right now. Please donate to […]
John Willis
Earlier today, pianist John Willis arrived in Tunisia, having flown all the way from Little Rock! After a day in Tunis, he and the rest of the teachers will go to Beni M’tir to plan for the arrival of the students on Tuesday. Please check out this 9-minute interview with John and then….don’t forget to donate […]
Get to know Hanan Aseelah Davis
Please check out this driven, charismatic, and thoughtful singer. Donors like you are sending her to rural Tunisia in less than a week in order to teach enthusiastic young Tunisian musicians. After listening to what she has to say, please donate to Cultures in Harmony to support this important exchange between Tunisia and the USA!
New website for Romayne Wheeler
We are pleased to recommend the new official website for Romayne Wheeler, the pianist of the Sierra Tarahumara, with whom we have collaborated on our Mexico project since 2019.
Cultures in Harmony to resume work in Tunisia, Zimbabwe in 2023
Cultures in Harmony is pleased to return to Tunisia and Zimbabwe in 2023. In Tunisia from July 25 to August 3, once again we will send outstanding music teachers to work with young Tunisian musicians in the idyllic countryside, in partnership with the Atlas Music Academy. The group, led by Shoshi Gottesman, viola and Deputy […]
Afghan musician in Italy!
In collaboration with Professor Mario Sollazzo and as part of our project helping Afghan musicians escape the violently anti-music Taliban, we have helped Afghan guitarist Ali Ibrahimi arrive to Italy, where, starting November 1, 2022, he will study guitar at the Vecchi Tonelli school in Modena.
Afghan musicians arrive in Mexico
Thanks to the generosity of donors like YOU, a group of six Afghan musicians arrived today in Mexico, where they will be on track to become Mexican citizens. No longer do they have to live in a country where music is illegal. Cultures in Harmony is profoundly grateful to our partners, Proyecto Habesha, and to […]
Afghan musician made it to Iran!
Since August 15, 2021, we have tried to get to safety and freedom Afghan musicians from a list of 326 people we compiled in the days following the Taliban takeover. From Sayed Qasem come this message and this haunting cover of the 1954 Bart Howard classic “Fly Me To The Moon,” the Sinatra version of […]
MOU with Proyecto Habesha will bring Afghans to Mexico
On February 2, 2022, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, our Executive Director William Harvey and Adrian Meléndez, Executive Director of Proyecto Habesha, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to bring Afghan musicians to Mexico, where they will be on track to become Mexican citizens. Proyecto Habesha has seven years’ experience bringing to Mexico refugees from countries ranging from […]