Miami Dade College’s (MDC) MDC Live Arts will present The Nile Project, an unprecedented artistic endeavor that calls together musicians from Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt, using music as a means to address the cultural and environmental challenges facing the Nile region, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24 at the North Beach Bandshell.
The Nile Project was developed by Egyptian ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis and Ethiopian-American singer, Meklit Hadero, who were inspired by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project. Crafting this cross-cultural collaboration was no small task. A series of retreats and intensive musical residencies were organized to tackle the enormity of the undertaking: the musicians speak many different languages, which means ideas and instructions have to get translated multiple times; they use different rhythms and different tonal systems; and they play diverse instruments.
North Beach Bandshell
7275 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33141
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