Dear Friends, Artists, Fans, Volunteers, and Organizers, One World Beat Festival 2005 is fast approaching and concerts are in the works in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Germany, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, Uganda, Wales, and Zimbabwe. The response from artists and volunteers has been great and many new musicians have joined us! This year's events will focus on education for youth affected by HIV/AIDS, extreme poverty, and natural disasters. For our Beat the Wave tsunami-relief project, donations will go to Save the Children, and for our Give A Child A Chance project, funds will go to Outside the Dream (paying school expenses for HIV/AIDS orphans in Uganda and India) and Liberation Through Education (providing education for children in Haiti). For more info see www.savethechildren.org, www.outsidethedream.org, and www.liberationthrougheducation.org.
Our 10-day festival, from March 18-27th, will feature performances at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City and Tokyo Joe's in Bangkok, and for local causes ranging from better HIV/AIDS treatments in India to tsunami relief in Thailand. OWB Zimbabwe will kick off its launch with an event in Harare, while an Afro-Beat band in Scotland is celebrating a new album release in Edinburgh. There is an arts and music festival in Costa Rica, and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Tanzania will benefit from a concert in Australia intended as the inauguration of the STIR youth movement. Mini-fests are planned for Nigeria, the USA, and Burkina Faso. England's youngest rock band (all under 13) will also take part. In addition, we have created an exciting new project--Drumming in One World Beat--which will unite the world in one hour of drumming on March 19th-20th, from 5-6pm EST-USA. Musicians and other participants from the USA, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Taiwan, and the Netherlands have already signed up, and we welcome anyone who is interested! See http://www.oneworldbeat.org/owb2005/music_news/110205_drumming_event.htm. Thank you for being part of One World Beat, helping to make a difference for children through music, and we look forward to a fantastic festival 2005! Andy Treichler, Founder/Director One World Beat http://www.oneworldbeat.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
