Muslim World Music Day, April 12, 2011

Everyone,

Yes, just one month to go before the launch of Muslim World Music Day, on April 12, 2011. No graphics or attachments here, so hopefully this will get through to all.

The ARChive of Contemporary Music, along with Columbia University, the Internet Archive and Gracenote, is initiating a series of World Music Days, and the first one will be Muslim World Music Day set for April 12, 2011. We invite artists, promoters, radio stations, bloggers, journalists, libraries, archives, collectors, cultural organizations, and venues to participate. The goals is a series of concerts, seminars, lectures, talks and the creation a database of all known recordings and links to all relevant information on a global scale. Any and all help is greatly appreciated - if everyone does a little a great deal can be done to celebrate the beauty and diversity of this important cultural heritage.

We hope you will please get in touch with us, spread the word and share your ideas.

The blog hosts an overview of the project, a list of suggestions for ways people can participate and a list of the people and organizations currently planning events @ https://arcmmcc.wordpress.com/. A beta version of the database is @ http://arcmusic.heroku.com/muslim_albums Youtube links @ https://www.youtube.com/user/bbunchy

SO if you can do SOMETHING, that would be great!

Bands – play music, venues – offer space, universities – give a lecture, libraries – send databases, labels -send your catalog + releases, journalists - tell everyone, everyone - send URLs and links. Let the world know about your music and what you do.

For those of you who are thinking now is not the best time to focus on Muslim music, with so much unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, I can only say now is a great time for people to take strength is their incredible cultural traditions, and for the world to hear some wonderful music. Ours is a celebration of music that offers respite as well as praise and hope.

And I can’t help thinking that Mozart composed all of his violin concertos, some of his violin sonatas, symphonies 31 – 37, string quartets 14-16, and seven operas during the American Revolutionary War.

Yours, Bob George,

Director, ARChive of Contemporary Music, 54 White Street, New York City, 10013, tel : 212-226-6967 e : arcmusic@inch.com http://arcmusic.org ARC blog: http://arcmusic.wordpress.com

ARC is a not-for-profit (NGO) educational organization, working to bring a wide range of musicians and scholars together, online, without any sponsorship, and without a budget. With over two million recordings we are the largest popular music library in the world.

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