Get ready to dance to the rhythms of New Orleans and Cuba!
We are very happy to announce that we have just added L’Amicale de la Nouvelle Orléans and La Malanga – so get ready to dance to the rhythms of New Orleans and Cuba!
The music school in Myanmar has opened
The Gitameit Music Center in Yangon, Myanmar that Hedda has built, opened on February 25th. Our friends at Hedda, Geir Johnson and Jørgen Lorentzen, were at the opening ceremony and have shared their pictures from the event. As Hedda founder Geir Johnson put it:
“Yesterday’s opening concert was an astounding success. The students were well prepared, and performed in a number of close to 60 on as diverse instruments as Burmese harps (8 harp players!), string instruments, small percussion, piano and two choirs + the Trondheim Soloists [Norwegian musicians]. More than 100 people attended the performance, which ended up lasting almost 2,5 hours.”
Enjoy the images and know that this music school will soon be filled with sound made by instruments from Music Fund.
Video to follow.
For Norwegian readers:
Stereo Grand will play at the festival!
We are extremely happy to announce that Stereo Grand will be playing at the festival!
Check out their page here https://givemusicachance.eu//stereo-grand/ and their music and videos in the video and audio players.
Update on music school in Myanmar
Jørgen Lorentzen with Hedda Foundation sent us an update on the music school project in Myanmar and I would like to share his message with you and a picture from the music school.
I have just visit the new school building and sending you a picture from today. They are now laying the floor of the “music hall” at the ground floor and preparing electricity of the new school. This building is three floors and it will open on February 25th. Then this music school will be the most modern music school for children in Myanmar. But they lack instruments. They have a couple of very old pianos and old string instruments. So there is a deep need of new instruments, but so far there are no money for it.
The work you are doing with the concert to collect money for instruments for the school in Yangon is therefore amazing and so important. And they need competence to take care of the instruments too. They are also very excited here at Gitameit, since I have told them about the cooperation with the music fund and the concert.
Tickets go for sale 7th of February
Dear friends of music,
We are working hard on finishing the festival website and plan to have it live and ready with tickets on 7th of February.
In the meantime, we will add more content and confirming new bands and artists and will keep you updated as they are added…stay tuned!
The Waterloo Sessions team