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 […]
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!
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 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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cultures in Harmony is pleased to report that of the 326 Afghan musicians we are helping, one is now in the USA! Ms. F (name withheld to protect her family) arrived in New York City last night, where she was welcomed by Dr. Marta Bedkowska-Reilly, the professor at Nyack College School of Music who also […]
The pandemic emphasized for all the promises and perils of human connection. Through empathizing with people on the other side of the planet, we can better fight shared challenges like pandemics…but in-person connections transmit this often deadly disease. How can cultural diplomacy organizations adapt to the COVID era? Afghanistan On August 15, 2021, we faced […]
