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For a decade now, the San Francisco World Music Festival has developed projects with master artists and youth in the Bay Area and in several countries abroad as a catalyst for cultural understanding. We have staged works bringing musicians from many backgrounds and traditions together to explore the potential of this essential exchange.

In the Fall of 2010, experience three innovative evenings of transformation as San Francisco World Music Festival brings together the music of many cultures in THE RITUAL PROJECT, featuring youth and master musicians from the Bay Area and beyond with stylized video footage from around the world, including live-stream performances from Taiwan via satellite.

THE RITUAL PROJECT
Offering | Entering the Fire | Feasting

Commissioned World Premiere featuring world renowned master musicians and the Festival’s Youth Orchestra

Friday, November 19; 8:00 pm
Program A: Offering

Saturday, November 20; 8:00 pm
Program B: Entering the Fire

Sunday, November 21; 7:00 pm
Program C: Feasting

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This year's commissioned work will feature several the San Francisco World Music Festival's Youth Orchestra, which started last year after receiving a generous grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation, and since has traveled across the globe to unite the youth of the world through music.

In November of 2010, the musicians will include South Indian Youth Ensemble of the Trinity Center for Music, Echoes of the Dragon Chinese Percussion Ensemble, The San Francisco School Orff Ensemble, Ali Akbar College of Music Youth Tabla Ensemble, South Indian percussionists T.H. Subash Chandran and Ganesh Kumar; Uzbeki percussionist Abbos Kosimov; Burmese pat waing player Kyaw Kyaw Naing; Indian tabla player Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri; Tibet singer Techung; South Indian violinist Anu Sridhar; Chinese percussionist Wang Wei; Orff teachers Doug Goodkin, James Harding, and Sofia Lopez-Ibor; multi-percussionist Jim Santi Owen; and more.

In addition to investing in the youth of the Bay Area, the initiative has also traveled to the mountains of Nepal, rural Taiwan, and the mountains of Kyrgyzstan to pass on to underprivileged youth their traditional music. Within the next couple years, students from these regions will join the group performing in the Bay Area.