With OneBeat 2015 just around the corner (Oct 12-Nov 11), we have recently launched a new website for OneBeat, and announced the Fellows for the 2015 program. Now in its fourth year, OneBeat is cultivating a groundbreaking international network of leading artistic, technological, and social innovators in music. This year’s OneBeat will take place in California and the Pacific Northwest, beginning with a two-week residency at the Montalvo Arts Center in the Bay Area, and ending with performances and social engagement programming in Seattle.
This year’s fellows include: Ng Chor Guan, an accomplished sound designer, composer and environmentalist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Dragana Tomić, a traditional Balkan vocalist and ethnomusicologist from Belgrade, Serbia, who is one of Serbia’s first professional female kaval players; Vieux Cissokho, a Senegalese Griot musician specializing in the kora; and Katherine Suavita Niño (aka. La Real Esa), a circus performer and urban cumbia star from Bogotá, Colombia who works with communities affected by violence.
For more information, event schedules, and media, see: 1beat.org
OneBeat is an initiative of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, OneBeat employs collaborative original music as a potent new form of cultural diplomacy.